The mit press essential knowledge series post truth

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How we arrived in a post-truth era, when “alternative facts” replace actual facts, and feelings have more weight than evidence.

Are we living in a post-truth world, where “alternative facts” replace actual facts and feelings have more weight than evidence? How did we get here? In this volume in the MIT Press Essential Knowledge series, Lee McIntyre traces the development of the post-truth phenomenon from science denial through the rise of “fake news,” from our psychological blind spots to the public's retreat into “information silos.”

What, exactly, is post-truth? Is it wishful thinking, political spin, mass delusion, bold-faced lying? McIntyre analyzes recent examples—claims about inauguration crowd size, crime statistics, and the popular vote—and finds that post-truth is an assertion of ideological supremacy by which its practitioners try to compel someone to believe something regardless of the evidence. Yet post-truth didn't begin with the 2016 election; the denial of scientific facts about smoking, evolution, vaccines, and climate change offers a road map for more widespread fact denial. Add to this the wired-in cognitive biases that make us feel that our conclusions are based on good reasoning even when they are not, the decline of traditional media and the rise of social media, and the emergence of fake news as a political tool, and we have the ideal conditions for post-truth. McIntyre also argues provocatively that the right wing borrowed from postmodernism—specifically, the idea that there is no such thing as objective truth—in its attacks on science and facts.

McIntyre argues that we can fight post-truth, and that the first step in fighting post-truth is to understand it.

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Post–Truth

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PostTruth

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So what does it all mean and how can we champion truth in in a time of lies and alternative facts in this eye opening and timely book post truth is distinguished from a long tradition of political lies exaggeration and spin welcome to the post truth era a time in which the art of the li Uiterlijk 6 december in huis .. MEER INFO

On Disinformation

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learn how to fight against the disinformation campaigns imperiling american democracy in this empowering pocket sized guide from the author of how to talk to a science denier inside the war on truth explore the history of how disinformation has been weaponized to manipulate society the effor Direct beschikbaar .. MEER INFO

Taal: en

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Oorspronkelijke releasedatum: 16 februari 2018

Ebook Formaat: Adobe ePub

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Hoofdauteur: Lee Mcintyre

Hoofduitgeverij: The Mit Press

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EAN: 9780262345989

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