It is nowadays common to claim that we live in a ”post-truth era”, where many people turn to ”alternative facts” and ”fake news” instead of the established media and science. The rise of online media is often blamed for being one of the main causes of the post-truth phenomenon, which is seen as threat to objective science and media as well as the liberal politics of the western society. The post-truth discourse has also created a split between on the one hand Trump supporters, climate change deniers and ”anti-vaxxers” and on the other hand liberals, intellectuals and academics who wants to protect the rational spirit of democracy. But what exactly is a democracy based on reason and rationality? Is the post-truth condition unique for our time in history, or could it be said to have always existed?
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Available here: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/336131887_Unpacking_post-truth
Farkas, J. & Schou, J. (2020). Post-truth discourses and their limits: A democratic crisis?. Disinformation and Digital Media as a Challenge for Democracy / [ed] G. Terzis, D. Kloza, E. Kużelewska and D. Trottier, Cambridge, UK: Intersentia, 2020, 1st, s. 103-126
Available here: http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-17661
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