Post-Truth and the Mediation of Reality: New Conjunctures

Book Overview

Our contemporary moment is preoccupied with arbitrating 'reality'. With the spectre of buzzwords like 'fake news' and 'post-truth' we find a scramble to locate or fix some sort of universal 'real' beneath what are positioned as 'fake' articulations. To engage with this crisis, this collection argues for the importance of a new conjuncture in communication and cultural studies of media. Building on Hall's understanding of 'conjuncture' as a way...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3030256723
• ISBN13: 9783030256722
• Release Date: November 2020
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 215 Pages
• Weight: 0.69 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.8" x 8.3"