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Re-thinking Mediations of Post-truth Politics and Trust: Globality, Culture, Affect

Re-thinking Mediations of Post-truth Politics and Trust: Globality, Culture, Affect

Harsin, Jayson

Hardcover

Series: Routledge Studies in Media, Communication, and Politics

General ReferenceGeneral Political ScienceGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 1032484195
ISBN13: 9781032484198
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Dec 29 2023
Pages: 242
Weight: 1.13
Height: 0.63 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

This collection reaches beyond fake news and propaganda, misinformation, and charismatic liars, to explore the lesser-publicized cultural forms and practices that serve as a cultural infrastructure for post-truth society and politics.

Situating post-truth in specific contexts as a site of contestation or crisis, the book critically explores it as a dynamic and shifting site around which political and cultural practices in specific contexts revolve and overlap. Through a breadth of perspectives, the volume considers a number of overlapping cultural and political developments across varying national and transnational contexts: changing technologies and practices of cultural production that sometimes shift and at other times reproduce authority of traditional institutional truth-tellers; seismic cultural changes in representations, values, and roles regarding gender, sexuality, race, and historical memory about them, as well as corresponding reactionary discourses in the culture wars; questions of authenticity, honesty, and power relations that combine many of the former shifts within an all-encompassing culture of (self-)promotional, attentional capitalism. These considerations lead scholars to focus on corresponding shifting cultural dynamics of popular truth-telling and (dis-)trust-making that inform political culture. In this more global view, post-truth becomes foremost an influentially anxious public mood about the struggles to secure or undermine publicly accepted facts.

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