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The Critique of Pure Information offers a critical rethinking of disinformation, misinformation, and "post-truth" politics by challenging the assumption that political deception is best understood as a problem of false or impure information.
This book argues that the dominant vocabulary of "information disorder" has helped install an infocentric model of communication, one that reduces deceptive public communication to faulty content, corrupted circulation, or deficient belief. Combining conceptual history, communication theory, systematic review, and close rhetorical analysis, the book shows how deception and confusion work through rhetoric, style, genre, image-text composition, platformed circulation, affect, and public uptake. Through an extended case study of a long-circulating Trump quotation meme, it demonstrates why democratic communication cannot be repaired by fact-checking, media literacy, platform governance, or AI detection alone.
This fascinating and insightful study will be of great interest to students and scholars of media and communication, journalism, media ethics, political science, and sociology.
Contents
Preface; 1. Infocentrism: The Information (Dis-)Order of Things Part 1. The Rise of Infocentrism: A Conceptual History of Dis-/misinformation 2. Misinformation and Disinformation in English and French: A Conceptual History; 3. A Historical, Systematic, and Critical Review of Dis-/Misinformation Research; 4. From Communication Theory to Dis-/Misinformation Research: Infocentrism, Information, and the Neglect of Form Part 2. The Challenge of Visual and Multimodal Forms of Political Deception for Dis-/Misinformation Theory 5. Images, Political Deception, and Information: Memes and other Supra-informational Media; 6. A Non-Infocentric Alternative: Form-Attentive Analysis of Deceptive Communication; 7. Introducing the False Trump Quotation Zombie Meme: Remixes and Fact-Checks; 8. The Rhetoric of the Meme: Beyond Cognitivist and Infocentric Explanations of Dis-/Misbelief; 9. The Zombie Meme in Platform Circulation: Form, Engagement, and Public Uptake; 10. Dis-/Misinformation Solutions and the Limits of Informational Ontology; Conclusion: Beyond Infocentric Democracy and Communication: Towards a Rhetorical Ontology; Supplementary to Chapter 2: Full Bibliographic Inventory of Dictionaries Consulted; Appendix chapter two; Appendix chapter three; Appendix chapter five; Appendix chapter ten; Index
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