Towards a New Paradigm on Post-truth

Published on July 4, 2024 – Updated on October 10, 2024

Séminaire / webinaire de l'axe Partis, Élections et Représentation

Speaker

Anam Siddiq Kuraishi (Universiteit Antwerpen)

Bio/description

This book reconceptualises the idea of ‘post-truth’. It does not limit the domain of post-truth to the production factories of fake news. Drawing on examples such as Trump, War on Terror, anti-vaccination, climate change denial, denial of scientific facts about smoking and so forth, it analyses the concept through a new theoretical lens which focuses on the specificity of post-truth discourses. Further, the volume develops a guide to operationalise post-truth discourse and makes use of Pakistan as a case study to illustrate post-truth discourses in Pakistani newspapers and implements an experiment to measure the effects of post-truth rhetoric on political attitudes. The volume will be essential reading for students, scholars and researchers of media and communication studies, politics and South Asian studies.

Dates

On the September 26, 2024

12h30 - 14h00

Location

ULB - Campus du Solbosch
Bâtiment S, 15è étage
Salle Henri Janne (S15.331)

44, Avenue Jeanne - 1050 Bruxelles

Contact

Pietro Castelli Gattinara : pietro.castelli@ulb.be