TY - BOOK

T1 - Post-Truth, Fake News and Democracy

T2 - Mapping the Politics of Falsehood

AU - Farkas, Johan

AU - Schou, Jannick

PY - 2023

Y1 - 2023

N2 - The new edition of Post-Truth, Fake News and Democracy offers an updated overview and critical discussion of contemporary discourses around truth, misinformation, and democracy, while also mapping cutting-edge scholarship.Through in-depth analyses of news articles, commentaries, academic publications, policy briefs, and political speeches, the book engages with the underlying normative ideas that shape how fake news is being addressed across the globe. Doing so, it provides an innovative, critical contribution to contemporary debates on democracy, post-truth, and politics. Three new chapters: Chapter 2 provides an outline of the scholarly field of research into fake news; Chapter 5 examines how issues of fake news and (mis)information have become intertwined with contemporary crisis events; and Chapter 9 presents democratic alternatives to post-truth solutionism. A new foreword by Professor Sarah Banet-Weiser. Fully updated examples and studies from contemporary events, including the COVID-19 pandemic, the United States Capitol attack, and the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Extended discussions on the causes of democratic decline, currently proposed solutions to fake news, and democratic alternatives to our current predicament.Interesting, informative, and well documented, Post-Truth, Fake News and Democracy continues its commitment to understand and engage with the current state and future of democracy.

AB - The new edition of Post-Truth, Fake News and Democracy offers an updated overview and critical discussion of contemporary discourses around truth, misinformation, and democracy, while also mapping cutting-edge scholarship.Through in-depth analyses of news articles, commentaries, academic publications, policy briefs, and political speeches, the book engages with the underlying normative ideas that shape how fake news is being addressed across the globe. Doing so, it provides an innovative, critical contribution to contemporary debates on democracy, post-truth, and politics. Three new chapters: Chapter 2 provides an outline of the scholarly field of research into fake news; Chapter 5 examines how issues of fake news and (mis)information have become intertwined with contemporary crisis events; and Chapter 9 presents democratic alternatives to post-truth solutionism. A new foreword by Professor Sarah Banet-Weiser. Fully updated examples and studies from contemporary events, including the COVID-19 pandemic, the United States Capitol attack, and the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Extended discussions on the causes of democratic decline, currently proposed solutions to fake news, and democratic alternatives to our current predicament.Interesting, informative, and well documented, Post-Truth, Fake News and Democracy continues its commitment to understand and engage with the current state and future of democracy.

KW - Faculty of Humanities

KW - post-truth

KW - fake news

KW - demokrati

KW - politik

KW - medier

KW - Desinformation

KW - misinformation

KW - infodemi

KW - diskurs

KW - diskursanalyse

KW - censur

KW - ytringsfrihed

KW - fake news

KW - post-truth

KW - disinformation

KW - misinformation

KW - democracy

KW - agonistic pluralism

KW - freedom of speech

KW - censorship

KW - digital media

KW - media

KW - democratic citizenship

KW - infodemic

KW - neoliberalism

KW - Faculty of Social Sciences

KW - post-truth

KW - fake news

KW - demokrati

KW - politik

KW - medier

KW - Desinformation

KW - misinformation

KW - infodemi

KW - diskurs

KW - diskursanalyse

KW - censur

KW - ytringsfrihed

KW - fake news

KW - post-truth

KW - disinformation

KW - misinformation

KW - democracy

KW - agonistic pluralism

KW - freedom of speech

KW - censorship

KW - digital media

KW - media

KW - democratic citizenship

KW - infodemic

KW - neoliberalism

U2 - 10.4324/9781003434870

DO - 10.4324/9781003434870

M3 - Book

SN - 9781032563039

SN - 9781032563022

BT - Post-Truth, Fake News and Democracy

PB - Routledge

CY - London & New York

ER -