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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"post-truth"”.
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Post-Truth Gaming: Fictional Pasts and Constitutive Rhetoric in Video Game Nostalgia
<p id="x-x-docs-internal-guid-a5aa99c3-7fff-b3a0-6138-1e24260c4b7e">What happens when we become nostalgic for experiences we never had? How do video game companies impact what we are nostalgic for? What might a fictional nostalgia look like, and how can it help us better understand the role of …
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Extremism, fake news and hate: effects of social media in the post-truth era
<p>This thesis examines the utilization of social media platforms (particularly Facebook & Twitter) by political actors, contemporary media, and ordinary people to disseminate false or misleading information. Furthermore, it examines how social media have aided in the mobilization of previously …
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Post-Truth Rhetoric and Its Correlation to Social Media in the 2024 U.S. Presidential Election
… study, I investigated the relationship between post-truth rhetoric and popular social media posts made by public figures during the 2024 United States presidential election. I focused on which topics and posts received the most or least engagement during the election, and theorized whether …
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Anti-Racist Video Activism: Framing and production of new knowledges that challenge the post-truth hegemonic project
… years, the rise of right-wing populism and post-truth politics has created a dangerous cocktail, enabling ‘immigration’ and ‘anti-racism’ to be framed within dominant political and media coverage in such a way that it stigmatises and marginalises foreign nationals migrating to the United …
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Through Smoke and Mirrors of the Post-Truth Era: Knowledge-Driven Generation as Algorithmic Resistance to Misinformation
The rapid spread of misinformation online poses a growing threat to public discourse and democratic society. Research has shown that simply flagging false content is insufficient; providing users with well-grounded explanations of why a claim is false leads to more durable belief revision than mere …
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To (be)lieve, or not to (be)lieve? Fake news, culture, and decision-making in a post-truth age
… fabricated news stories designed as social media posts for use in subsequent experiments. Study 2 employed a survey incorporating three of these fabricated stories to investigate how credibility characteristics varied across social media platforms such as X, Instagram, and Facebook. Results …
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How motivated reasoning leads to tolerance of false claims: Three experimental tests of mechanisms
… widely believed. This led to much talk about a ’post-truth’ politics. Meanwhile, an extensive literature confirms that false beliefs voters have about political issues are of- ten highly resistant to correction. The drivers of that resistance are well- known: people engage in motivated reasoning. …
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Paranoid-Schizoid, Manic Defensive Society: Kleinian Psychodynamics in Contemporary Political Culture
… discourse whereby extreme polarisation and post-truth attitudes are rife. One can see the rise of emotive far-right populist candidates and causes as exemplary of this. Specifically in the case of the support for Donald Trump, Brexit as well as the rise in COVID-19 conspiracy theories. The …
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Freedom as the Way of Life: Power, Truth-Telling, and the Politics of Michel Foucault’s Critical Philosophy
Since 2016, the proliferation of post-truth discourse has created a condition that affects the order of democracy in the west. Though many scholars have explored this condition through various frameworks, one of the topics that is rarely investigated is the new character of freedom and truth, as …
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"Russian Propaganda and Subjectivity Positions Following the 2022 Escalation of the Russo-Ukrainian War"
… repertoires, intertextuality and assumptions, post-truth and fake news, and lived ideology are the key concepts that further inform the theoretical framework. I develop the steps of analysis, informed by a variety of literary sources and in accordance with the needs of this dissertation. I …
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Going with Your Gut: A Study of Affect, Satire, and Donald Trump in the 2016 Presidential Election
… contributed to the current American climate of a post-truth media culture. And in the final section, I explore how satirical rhetoric is employed both as a defense against and as a rhetorical utility for Donald Trump, namely in his use of carnivalesque techniques and rhetoric to appeal to his …
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Proximal Influence vs. Institutional Power: An Empirical Study of Podcasts, Trust and Public Opinion
… audiences who seek comfort, entertainment, and truth from kindred voices. This thesis critically examines the nature of media trust in the post-truth era, investigating the factors that facilitate the establishment and fortification of bonds between podcast hosts and listeners, and the …
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A Symbol for the Masses: Sergei Chakhotin and the Modern Crisis of Propaganda
… even more ahead of present-day concerns about “post-truth” information society, Chakhotin’s worries about the erosion of truth and rational arguments as methods of political persuasion and the rise of emotional, irrational appeals based in symbols and slogans places him at the forefront of a …
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Decision making under conflictive uncertainty
Living in a post-truth era, individuals are increasingly exposed to conflicting information. Such conflict can induce "conflictive uncertainty", a state of uncertainty about which information and source to trust. Conflictive uncertainty can impact emotions (e.g., frustration, distress), cognition …
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Decision making under conflictive uncertainty
Living in a post-truth era, individuals are increasingly exposed to conflicting information. Such conflict can induce "conflictive uncertainty", a state of uncertainty about which information and source to trust. Conflictive uncertainty can impact emotions (e.g., frustration, distress), cognition …
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Narrative battle: A critical discourse analysis of China and the US's news coverage on COVID-19 origin-tracing
The origin of Covid-19 has been a subject of intense public discussion since early 2020, with different countries such as China and the US engaging in propaganda over which laboratory was responsible for the virus's leak. This narrative battle has not only been fought on the basis of scientific …