Fake News in Contemporary Science and Politics: A Requiem for the Real?
MSU Affiliation
College of Arts and Sciences; Department of Classical and Modern Languages and LIteratures
Abstract
This transdisciplinary book investigates the profound repercussions of living in a post-truth world in which "alternative facts" and post-truth knowledge claims, often bordering on the absurd, have replaced the real in the collective imagination of millions of people around the planet. Through discussions on climate change denial, the anti-vaccination movement, the January 6th Insurrection and the Russia-Ukraine War, this study explores the gravity of the current 'infodemic,' or the increasing inability of a large segment of the population to distinguish between reality and misrepresentation, and the destabilizing impact this infodemic has on democratic models of governance around the globe, coinciding with the rise of autocratic forms of populism.
Publication Date
4-23-2024
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan Cham
City
Cham, Switzerland
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ISBN
9783031561795
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-56180-1
Recommended Citation
Moser, K. (2024). Fake news in contemporary science and politics : a requiem for the real? Palgrave Macmillan.
