Full Description
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.
Contents
Part 1: Preparing For The Post-Truth Journey 1. Introduction 2. An Expanding Field: Approaches, Concepts, Provocations 3. Political Theory in Post-Factual Times Part 2: Into Post-Truth Worlds 4. Prophecies of Post-Truth 5. Crises Upon Crises 6. Restoring Democracy Part 3: Out of Post-Truth Worlds 7. Post-Truth and Post-Politics: Splitting the Difference 8. Ways Out? Truth, Technology and Democracy 9. Democratic Alternatives to Post-truth Worlds 10. Conclusion
