Post-Truth, Fake News and Democracy: Mapping the Politics of Falsehood
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Post-Truth, Fake News and Democracy : Mapping the Politics of Falsehood. / Farkas, Johan; Schou, Jannick.
London : Routledge, 2019. 178 s.Publikation: Bog/antologi/afhandling/rapport › Bog › Forskning › fagfællebedømt
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TY - BOOK
T1 - Post-Truth, Fake News and Democracy
T2 - Mapping the Politics of Falsehood
AU - Farkas, Johan
AU - Schou, Jannick
PY - 2019
Y1 - 2019
N2 - Western societies are under siege, as fake news, post-truth and alternative facts are undermining the very core of democracy. This dystopian narrative is currently circulated by intellectuals, journalists and policy makers worldwide. In this book, Johan Farkas and Jannick Schou deliver a comprehensive study of post-truth discourses. They critically map the normative ideas contained in these and present a forceful call for deepening democracy.The dominant narrative of our time is that democracy is in a state of emergency caused by social media, changes to journalism and misinformed masses. This crisis needs to be resolved by reinstating truth at the heart of democracy, even if this means curtailing civic participation and popular sovereignty. Engaging with critical political philosophy, Farkas and Schou argue that these solutions neglect the fact that democracy has never been about truth alone: it is equally about the voice of the democratic people.Post-Truth, Fake News and Democracy delivers a sobering diagnosis of our times. It maps contemporary discourses on truth and democracy, foregrounds their normative foundations and connects these to historical changes within liberal democracies. The book will be of interest to students and scholars studying the current state and future of democracy, as well as to a politically informed readership
AB - Western societies are under siege, as fake news, post-truth and alternative facts are undermining the very core of democracy. This dystopian narrative is currently circulated by intellectuals, journalists and policy makers worldwide. In this book, Johan Farkas and Jannick Schou deliver a comprehensive study of post-truth discourses. They critically map the normative ideas contained in these and present a forceful call for deepening democracy.The dominant narrative of our time is that democracy is in a state of emergency caused by social media, changes to journalism and misinformed masses. This crisis needs to be resolved by reinstating truth at the heart of democracy, even if this means curtailing civic participation and popular sovereignty. Engaging with critical political philosophy, Farkas and Schou argue that these solutions neglect the fact that democracy has never been about truth alone: it is equally about the voice of the democratic people.Post-Truth, Fake News and Democracy delivers a sobering diagnosis of our times. It maps contemporary discourses on truth and democracy, foregrounds their normative foundations and connects these to historical changes within liberal democracies. The book will be of interest to students and scholars studying the current state and future of democracy, as well as to a politically informed readership
KW - Faculty of Humanities
KW - Fake news
KW - demokrati
KW - misinformation
KW - desinformation
KW - sociale medier
KW - politik
KW - diskursteori
UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780429317347
U2 - 10.4324/9780429317347
DO - 10.4324/9780429317347
M3 - Book
SN - 9780367322182
SN - 9780367322175
BT - Post-Truth, Fake News and Democracy
PB - Routledge
CY - London
ER -
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