Post-Truth, Fake News and Democracy
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The new edition of Post-Truth, Fake News and Democracy offers an updated overview and critical discussion of contemporary discourses around truth, misinformation, and democracy, while also mapping cutting-edge scholarship. Through in-depth analyses of news articles, commentaries, academic publications, policy briefs, and political speeches, the book engages with the underlying normative ideas that shape how fake news is being addressed across the globe.
Doing so, it provides an innovative, critical contribution to contemporary debates on democracy, post-truth, and politics. Three new chapters: Chapter 2 provides an outline of the scholarly field of research into fake news; Chapter 5 examines how issues of fake news and (mis)information have become intertwined with contemporary crisis events; and Chapter 9 presents democratic alternatives to post-truth solutionism.
A new foreword by Professor Sarah Banet-Weiser. Fully updated examples and studies from contemporary events, including the COVID-19 pandemic, the United States Capitol attack, and the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Extended discussions on the causes of democratic decline, currently proposed solutions to fake news, and democratic alternatives to our current predicament. Interesting, informative, and well documented, Post-Truth, Fake News and Democracy continues its commitment to understand and engage with the current state and future of democracy.
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- Taylor & Francis
- 9781003823728
- 9781032563039
- ePub
- 2
- Johan Farkas; Jannick Schou
- English
- 2023-12-12
- 100
- 2
- 2
Kaflar
- Cover
- Endorsements for the Second Edition
- Endorsements for the First Edition
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- Foreword: A feminist reading
- Acknowledgments
- Part I Preparing for the post-truth journey
- 1 Introduction
- The fake news virus
- Democracy in decline? Core arguments
- Approach and clarifications
- Outline of book
- References
- 2 An expanding field: Approaches, concepts, provocations
- Historical antecedents I: from propaganda to fake news
- Historical antecedents II: the search for an untainted concept
- The current state of fake news research
- Four provocations for future research
- Summing up and moving closer to our journey
- References
- 3 Political theory in post-factual times
- Discourse theory and its development
- Discourses beyond language
- Ontological abyss
- Elusive truths
- Methodological approach: mapping the landscape
- Operationalizing discourse theory
- Establishing an archive of data
- Analyzing the data
- Limitations
- Notes
- References
- Part II Into post-truth worlds
- 4 Prophecies of post-truth
- A modern-day plague
- Post-truth: the rise of an “alternative reality”
- Fake news
- Who is to blame? Villain 1: social media
- Villain 2: journalism
- Villain 3: the masses
- Democratic eschatology
- References
- 5 Crises upon crises
- Some remarks on discourses and crisis
- Crisis moment I: the rise and legacy of Trumpism (2016–)
- Fake news as a floating signifier
- Crisis moment II: COVID-19 (2019–)
- Crisis moment III: the Russian invasion (2022–)
- Closing thoughts: truth in the midst of crisis
- Note
- References
- 6 Restoring democracy
- State responses to post-truth
- Back to truth
- Antidotes and immunity
- Only technology can save us now
- Silicon valley strikes back
- One solution, many solutions
- References
- Part III Out of post-truth worlds
- 7 Post-truth and post-politics: Splitting the difference
- Democracy as truth, the truth of democracy
- The neoliberal takeover
- Politics after the demos
- The hegemony of the market
- Post-truth and post-politics
- References
- 8 Ways out?: Truth, technology, and democracy
- Solutions and their discontents
- Solution 1: moralizing, condemning
- Solution 2: policing the truth
- Solution 3: technological solutionism
- Solution 4: re-establishing centers of truth-making
- Concluding remarks
- References
- 9 Democratic alternatives to post-truth worlds
- Politics as dispute
- Radicalizing democracy
- Solutions or strategies? Pointers for other ways out
- Rather than regulating fake news, we need to regulate wealth
- Rather than restricting difference and dispute, we need to restrict corporate power
- Rather than media literacy, we need democratic media
- Rather than more Truth, we need more democratic participation
- Closing thoughts
- Note
- References
- 10 Conclusion
- References
- Index