Re-thinking Mediations of Post-truth Politics and Trust

<p>This collection reaches beyond fake news and propaganda misinformation and charismatic liars to explore the lesser-publicized cultural forms and practices that serve as a cultural infrastructure for post-truth society and politics. </p><p>Situating post-truth in specific contexts as a site of contestation or crisis the book critically explores it as a dynamic and shifting site around which political and cultural practices in specific contexts revolve and overlap. Through a breadth of perspectives the volume considers a number of overlapping cultural and political developments across varying national and transnational contexts: changing technologies and practices of cultural production that sometimes shift and at other times reproduce authority of traditional institutional truth-tellers; seismic cultural changes in representations values and roles regarding gender sexuality race and historical memory about them as well as corresponding reactionary discourses in the culture wars; questions of authenticity honesty and power relations that combine many of the former shifts within an all-encompassing culture of (self-)promotional attentional capitalism. These considerations lead scholars to focus on corresponding shifting cultural dynamics of popular truth-telling and (dis-)trust-making that inform political culture. In this more global view post-truth becomes foremost an influentially anxious public mood about the struggles to secure or undermine publicly accepted facts. </p><p>This nuanced and insightful collection will interest scholars and students of communication studies media and cultural studies media ethics journalism media literacy sociology anthropology philosophy and politics. </p>