America's Post-Truth Phenomenon : When Feelings and Opinions Trump Facts and Evidence /: When Feelings and Opinions Trump Facts and Evidence. (2018)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: C.G. Prado.
• Editors: Prado, C. G
• Contents: PrefaceChapter 1 Introduction: The New SubjectivismC. G. PradoChapter 2 Truth Claims, Interpretation, and Addiction to ConvictionMark KingwellChapter 3 Because I Say So: Media Authenticity in the Age of Post-Truth and Fake NewsGreg KellyChapter 4 Post-Truth: Marcuse and New Forms of Social ControlLisa PortmessChapter 5 Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Manipulation of CrowdsSergio SismondoChapter 6 The Post-Truth Temperament: What Makes Belief Stray from Evidence? And What Can Bring Them Back Together?Juan Pablo BermúdezChapter 7 Reality for the PeopleKhadija CoxonChapter 8 Truth and TrollingJason HannanChapter 9 Truth, Post-Truth, and Subscriptions: Consensus, Truth, and Social Norms in Algorithmic MediaAlex LeitchChapter 10 Lords of MendacityPaul FairfieldChapter 11 Losing the Feel for Truth in Post-Truth "Democracies": When Macro Data Harvesting and Micro-Targeting Befuddle Democratic ThoughtChris BeemanChapter 12 Brazen New World: A Peircean Approach to Post-TruthMark MigottiChapter 13 The Fallacy of Post-TruthLawrie McFarlaneAbout the Editor and ContributorsIndex.
• Publisher Details: New York : Praeger
• Publication Date: 2018
• Extent: 1 online resource (232 pages)
• Subjects: Psychology -- General; History -- Modern -- 21st Century; Psychology
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9798216045335; 8216045336
• Related ISBNs: 9781440862724
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