Full Description
This book reconceptualises the idea of "post-truth". It does not limit the domain of post-truth to the production factories of fake news. Drawing on examples such as Trump, War on Terror, anti-vaccination, climate change denial, denial of scientific facts about smoking, and so forth, it analyses the concept through a new theoretical lens which focuses on the specificity of post-truth discourses. Further, the volume develops a guide to operationalise post-truth discourse and makes use of Pakistan as a case study to illustrate post-truth discourses in Pakistani newspapers and implements an experiment to measure the effects of post-truth rhetoric on political attitudes.
The volume will be essential reading for students, scholars, and researchers of media and communication studies, politics, and South Asian studies.
Contents
List of Figures ix List of Tables x Preface xi Acknowledgements xiii PART I Post-truth as Political Discourse 1 1 Introduction 3 2 What Is Post-truth? 23 3 Defining, Characterising, and Analysing Post-truth: An Analytical Framework 38 PART II Post-truth Discourse in Pakistan 73 4 A Guide for Empirical Research Using Post-truth Narratives 75 5 Insights from South Asia: Post-truth Narratives in Pakistani Newspapers 104 6 The Effects of Desire-based Framing on Political Attitudes 135 7 Conclusion 165 Appendix: Newspaper Articles Cited from Dawn, The Nation, and The Express Tribune 177
