Post-truth / (Record no. 2576)

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International Standard Book Number 9780262535045 (pbk.)
International Standard Book Number 0262535041 (pbk.)
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System control number (OCoLC)1002297524
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Classification number BD171
Item number .M356 2018
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Personal name McIntyre, Lee C.
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Title Post-truth /
Statement of responsibility, etc. Lee McIntyre.
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Place of publication, distribution, etc. Cambridge, Mass. :
Name of publisher, distributor, etc. The MIT Press,
Date of publication, distribution, etc. [2018]
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Extent xvi, 216 p.
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Series statement The MIT Press Essential Knowledge Series
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Bibliography, etc. note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Formatted contents note What is post-truth? -- The roots of cognitive bias -- The decline of traditional media -- The rise of social media and the problem of fake news -- Did post-modernism lead to post-truth? -- Fighting post-truth.
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Summary, etc. "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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Topical term or geographic name entry element Truth.
Topical term or geographic name entry element Truthfulness and falsehood.
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Uniform title MIT Press essential knowledge series.
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