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Post-truth
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Post-truth is a term that refers to the widespread documentation of, and concern about, disputes over public truth claims in the 21st century. The term's academic development refers to the theories and research that explain the specific causes historically, and the effects of the phenomenon.[1][2][3][4][5] Oxford Dictionaries popularly defines it as "relating to and denoting circumstances in which objective facts are less influential in shaping public opinion than appeals to emotion and personal belief."[6][7][1]
While the term was used in phrases like "post-truth politics" academically and publicly before 2016,[8] in 2016 the term was named Word of the Year by Oxford Dictionaries after the term's proliferation in the first election of President Trump in the United States and the Brexit referendum in the United Kingdom; Donald Trump has been characterized as engaging in a "war on truth."[9] Oxford Dictionaries further notes that post-truth was often used as an adjective to signal a distinctive kind of politics.[10]
Some scholars argue that post-truth has similarities with past moral, epistemic, and political debates about relativism, postmodernity, and dishonesty in politics.[11] Others insist that post-truth is specifically concerned with 21st century communication technologies and cultural practices.[1]
- ^ a b c Harsin, Jayson (2018-12-20). "Post-Truth and Critical Communication Studies". Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Communication. doi:10.1093/acrefore/9780190228613.013.757. ISBN 978-0190228613. Retrieved 2021-10-07.
- ^ Kalpokas, Ignas (2018). A political theory of post-truth. Cham, Switzerland. ISBN 978-3-319-97713-3. OCLC 1048428960.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - ^ Cosentino, Gabriele (2020). Social media and the post-truth world order : the global dynamics of disinformation. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 978-3-030-43005-4. OCLC 1145550288.
- ^ D'Ancona, Matthew (2017). Post truth : the new war on truth and how to fight back. London. ISBN 978-1-78503-687-3. OCLC 988858863.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - ^ Rommetveit, Kjetil (2022). Post-Truth Imaginations: New Starting Points for Critique of Politics and Technoscience. London: Taylor & Francis. ISBN 9780367146818.
- ^ "Word of the Year 2016 is..." Oxford Dictionaries. Archived from the original on November 16, 2016. Retrieved 2019-05-20.
- ^ Metaliterate Learning for the Post-Truth World, Thomas P. Mackey, Neal-Schuman Publishers, 2019, ISBN 978-0838917763
- ^ Harsin, Jayson (2015-06-01). "Regimes of Posttruth, Postpolitics, and Attention Economies". Communication, Culture and Critique. 8 (2): 327–333. doi:10.1111/cccr.12097. ISSN 1753-9129.
- ^ Klepper, David (June 24, 2023). "Analysis: Donald Trump's war on truth confronts another test with voters". Associated Press.
- ^ "Oxford Word of the Year 2016 | Oxford Languages". languages.oup.com. Retrieved 2021-11-15.
- ^ Arendt, Hannah (1972). Crises of the Republic; lying in politics, civil disobedience on violence, thoughts on politics, and revolution. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich. pp. 4. ISBN 0151230951. OCLC 1081530613.
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