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Post-Truth as an Epistemic Crisis: The Need for Rationality, Autonomy, and Pluralism

open access: yesAdult Education Quarterly, 2022
Contemporary society is experiencing an epistemic crisis, evidenced by such “post-truth” phenomena as “alternative facts.” Traditional notions related to knowledge and Truth have been under continual, partly justifiable, attack under the eclectic banner ...
Tetyana Hoggan-Kloubert, Chad Hoggan
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Pre-Truth Life in Post-Truth Times

open access: yesNordic Wittgenstein Review, 2019
Clearing philosophical ground for diagnoses of the contemporary ‘post-truth’-problematic, this article discusses the systematic and ineliminable ambivalence of claims to truth in public discourse and collective life generally, where truth cannot ...
Joel Backström
doaj   +1 more source

On memory and post-truth

open access: yesJournal of Science and Technology of the Arts, 2022
Facing an idea of post-truth, “post” as meaning to be beyond something, that signifies spatial distance, to go beyond the unrepresentable, this article means to understand the built memory around a constructed truth over a picture of a colonial priest ...
Marta Pinto Machado
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Inoculation theory in the post‐truth era: Extant findings and new frontiers for contested science, misinformation, and conspiracy theories

open access: yesSocial & Personality Psychology Compass, 2021
Although there has been unprecedented attention to inoculation theory in recent years, the potential of this research has yet to be reached Inoculation theory explains how immunity to counter‐attitudinal messages is conferred by preemptively exposing ...
J. Compton   +3 more
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A post-truth pandemic?

open access: yesBig Data & Society, 2020
As the coronavirus pandemic continues apace in the United States, the dizzying amount of data being generated, analyzed and consumed about the virus has led to calls to proclaim this the first ‘data-driven pandemic’.
Taylor Shelton
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Whose Discourse, Whose Ears? Harmony in Dialogic Pedagogy amidst the Post-Truth Noise [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
Commentary on DPJ Editorial by Robin Alexander (2019), Whose discourse? Dialogic Pedagogy for a post-truth world. This commentary adds emphasis on the importance of the four areas of dialogic pedagogy--language, voice, argument and truth-- that ...
Andal, Aireen Grace
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When fiction trumps truth : what ‘post-truth’ and ‘alternative facts’ mean for management studies [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
In this essay, we explore the notions of ‘post-truth’ and ‘alternative facts’ for management studies. Adopting a pragmatist perspective, we argue that there is no intrinsically accurate language in terms of which to refer to reality. Language, rather, is
Knight, Eric, Tsoukas, Haridimos
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A review of educational responses to the “post-truth” condition: Four lenses on “post-truth” problems

open access: yes, 2020
Educators have been increasingly concerned with what can be done about “post-truth” problems—that is, threats to people's abilities to know what is true—such as the spread of misinformation and denial of well-established scientific claims.
Sarit Barzilai, C. Chinn
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Rethinking journalism standards in the era of post-truth politics: from truth keepers to truth mediators

open access: yesMedia Culture and Society, 2021
In this article, we argue for a pragmatic understanding of the role of news media and journalism not as truth keepers but as truth mediators in the public sphere. In the current debate on ‘post-truth politics’ the emphasis is often put on the formulation
Asimina Michailidou, H. Trenz
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Post-Truth, the Future of Democracy and the Public Sphere

open access: yesTheory, Culture & Society, 2022
The rise of authoritarian and nationalist forces is currently accompanied by a change in the way public opinion is formed and in the culture of debate, a phenomenon that has been described as a crisis of facticity. There is an urgent need to clarify the (
S. van Dyk
semanticscholar   +1 more source

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