Civil Society Must Be Defended: Misinformation, Moral Panics, and Wars of Restoration

IF 1.5 3区 文学 Q2 COMMUNICATION Communication Culture & Critique Pub Date : 2020-09-01 DOI:10.1093/ccc/tcz041
J. Bratich
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In this article, I propose that we think of the recent concern over fake news, misinformation, disinformation, and conspiracy theories as a moral panic. I revisit Stuart Hall and his co-authors’ concept, updating it in two ways. First, I focus on how the current panic has altered what they called “primary definers” (which now includes professional journalism, as a result of their own waning authority). Second, the new alliance of panic actors (journalism, technology companies, intelligence agencies, politicians, civil society organizations) are expressions of a crisis policing that is now martialized. I assess this new nexus in terms of a breakdown of civil peace into outright hostilities; as a counterinsurgency operation. I draw on Michel Foucault’s strategic analysis of power and society that challenges boundaries between politics and war. This nexus is waging what I call a war of restoration, one that has significant implications for dissent and oppositional knowledges.
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必须捍卫公民社会:错误信息、道德恐慌和复辟战争
在这篇文章中,我建议我们把最近对假新闻、错误信息、虚假信息和阴谋论的担忧视为一种道德恐慌。我重新审视了Stuart Hall和他的合著者的概念,并从两个方面对其进行了更新。首先,我关注当前的恐慌如何改变了他们所谓的“主要定义者”(现在包括专业新闻业,因为他们自己的权威正在减弱)。其次,恐慌参与者(新闻、科技公司、情报机构、政治家、公民社会组织)的新联盟是危机监管的表现,现在已经军事化。我对这种新的联系的评价是,国内和平的崩溃变成了彻底的敌对;作为反叛乱行动。我借鉴了米歇尔·福柯对权力和社会的战略分析,挑战了政治和战争之间的界限。这种联系正在发动一场我称之为复辟之战的战争,这场战争对持不同政见者和反对派的知识有着重要的影响。
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期刊介绍: CCC provides an international forum for critical research in communication, media, and cultural studies. We welcome high-quality research and analyses that place questions of power, inequality, and justice at the center of empirical and theoretical inquiry. CCC seeks to bring a diversity of critical approaches (political economy, feminist analysis, critical race theory, postcolonial critique, cultural studies, queer theory) to bear on the role of communication, media, and culture in power dynamics on a global scale. CCC is especially interested in critical scholarship that engages with emerging lines of inquiry across the humanities and social sciences. We seek to explore the place of mediated communication in current topics of theorization and cross-disciplinary research (including affect, branding, posthumanism, labor, temporality, ordinariness, and networked everyday life, to name just a few examples). In the coming years, we anticipate publishing special issues on these themes.
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