The Politics of Misinformation

The Politics of Misinformation is an examination of how concentrations of social and economic power result in public languages of politics that are necessarily image-based vague and misleading in their denial of undemocratic tendencies. As a result public discourses of democracy tend to be populistic emotional and likely to emphasize images of progress rather than structural inequalities in their formulations of public problems. In short neither typical problem definitions nor solutions invite critical popular understanding or involvement in democratic politics.