Stamatis Poulakidakos, Anastasia Veneti, Christos A. Frangonikolopoulos
In 2016, post-truth was named word of the year. Since then a handful of texts have sought to further describe and explore the notion, moving beyond the initial definition given by the Oxford Dictionary. This paper rejects the term ‘post-truth’, in favor of propaganda; since post-truth tends to be utilised as an evaluative term of contemporary political public discourse, as articulated by specific politicians, predominantly through social media. Taking the field of information management as its starting point, our approach underlines the diachronic character of persuasion efforts through information management, understood as propaganda in the public sphere. As a notion, propaganda, in contrast to post-truth, encapsulates both the diachronic character of information management in the public sphere and the ground-breaking transformation of the process of personal opinion expression, initially described by the spiral of silence model, through the emergence of new interactive media.
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{"title":"Discursive construction of truth, ideology and the emergence of post-truth narratives in contemporary political communication","authors":"A. Deligiaouri","doi":"10.1386/MACP.14.3.301_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/MACP.14.3.301_1","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44504,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Media & Cultural Politics","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2018-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1386/MACP.14.3.301_1","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42025203","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Online media impact on politics. Views on post-truth politics and postpostmodernism","authors":"Susana Salgado","doi":"10.1386/MACP.14.3.317_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/MACP.14.3.317_1","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44504,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Media & Cultural Politics","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2018-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1386/MACP.14.3.317_1","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47467430","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Book Reviews","authors":"B. Hughes, K. Wirth","doi":"10.1386/macp.14.3.407_5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/macp.14.3.407_5","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44504,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Media & Cultural Politics","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2018-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1386/macp.14.3.407_5","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49081387","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
As other authors in this collection have stated, post-truth came into common parlance as commentators analysed and reflected on election campaigns and their results: the suggestion being that emotions and beliefs had become more powerful than reasoned, fact-based argumentation. Given that most campaigns present their own redacted perspective of reality into an environment containing multiple, contested alternative interpretations, the association between the most contested variant of a campaign, a political contest and post-truth is unsurprising. All campaigns contain elements of post-truth, appeals to emotions that build bridges between that which is sold and the identity of the consumer. Campaigns may encourage people to think but also to feel, and as such campaign strategies chime with understandings of human engagement and the levels of cognitive attention given, with many decisions being gut responses rather than being carefully considered. Our research focuses on two UK contests: the 2016 referendum on membership of the EU and the subsequent 2017 snap general election. Interviews among older voters who voted to leave the EU and younger voters who supported Corbyn-led Labour provide insights into how what might be seen as peripheral aspects influenced voting decisions. The data we suggest highlight challenges for democratic institutions as populist voices present themselves as change agents to win support from voters dissatisfied with consensus politics. Mainstream politicians meanwhile are mistrusted while the arguments of outsiders who appear authentic are given credence. Such observations go to the heart of issues facing democracy and place debates surrounding post-truth as core to those challenges. This article offers insights into how voter choices reveal cognitive processes that explain the link between campaign communication, belief formation and voter choice-making, all of which combine to threaten democracy.
{"title":"‘Searching for something to believe in’: Voter uncertainty in a post-truth environment","authors":"D. Lilleker, Mirjam Liefbroer","doi":"10.1386/MACP.14.3.351_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/MACP.14.3.351_1","url":null,"abstract":"As other authors in this collection have stated, post-truth came into common parlance as commentators analysed and reflected on election campaigns and their results: the suggestion being that emotions and beliefs had become more powerful than reasoned, fact-based argumentation. Given that most campaigns present their own redacted perspective of reality into an environment containing multiple, contested alternative interpretations, the association between the most contested variant of a campaign, a political contest and post-truth is unsurprising. All campaigns contain elements of post-truth, appeals to emotions that build bridges between that which is sold and the identity of the consumer. Campaigns may encourage people to think but also to feel, and as such campaign strategies chime with understandings of human engagement and the levels of cognitive attention given, with many decisions being gut responses rather than being carefully considered. Our research focuses on two UK contests: the 2016 referendum on membership of the EU and the subsequent 2017 snap general election. Interviews among older voters who voted to leave the EU and younger voters who supported Corbyn-led Labour provide insights into how what might be seen as peripheral aspects influenced voting decisions. The data we suggest highlight challenges for democratic institutions as populist voices present themselves as change agents to win support from voters dissatisfied with consensus politics. Mainstream politicians meanwhile are mistrusted while the arguments of outsiders who appear authentic are given credence. Such observations go to the heart of issues facing democracy and place debates surrounding post-truth as core to those challenges. This article offers insights into how voter choices reveal cognitive processes that explain the link between campaign communication, belief formation and voter choice-making, all of which combine to threaten democracy.","PeriodicalId":44504,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Media & Cultural Politics","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2018-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1386/MACP.14.3.351_1","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45730059","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Psychological underpinnings of post-truth politics","authors":"B. Richards","doi":"10.1386/MACP.14.3.401_7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/MACP.14.3.401_7","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44504,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Media & Cultural Politics","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2018-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48802347","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The crisis of democratic culture?","authors":"Mark Bendall, C. Robertson","doi":"10.1386/MACP.14.3.383_7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/MACP.14.3.383_7","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44504,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Media & Cultural Politics","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2018-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1386/MACP.14.3.383_7","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45626074","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Media use and climate change concern","authors":"Jason T. Carmichael, Robert J. Brulle","doi":"10.1386/MACP.14.2.243_7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/MACP.14.2.243_7","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44504,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Media & Cultural Politics","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2018-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66738224","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Book Reviews","authors":"E. Sevin, Anna Froula, Javier Ruiz-Soler","doi":"10.1386/macp.14.2.265_5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/macp.14.2.265_5","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44504,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Media & Cultural Politics","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2018-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42774001","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
María T. Soto-Sanfiel, Isabel Villegas-Simón, Ariadna Angulo-Brunet
{"title":"Film literacy in secondary schools across Europe: A comparison of five countries’ responses to an educational project on cinema","authors":"María T. Soto-Sanfiel, Isabel Villegas-Simón, Ariadna Angulo-Brunet","doi":"10.1386/MACP.14.2.187_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/MACP.14.2.187_1","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44504,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Media & Cultural Politics","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2018-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1386/MACP.14.2.187_1","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45874684","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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