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This interdisciplinary collection of essays explores the impact of media, emerging technologies, and education on the resilience of the so-called post-truth society. This book explores if a return to civic participation, enhanced critical media literacy, journalism for the public good, techno-interventions and lifelong learning systems can collectively foster a more engaged global citizenry. The post-truth society is associated with a raft of terms that challenge the very notion of what should constitute a democratic and inclusive society: the decline and fall of reason; the disruption of the public sphere; the spread of misleading information; fake news; culture wars; the rise of subjectivity; the co-opting of language; filters, silos and tribes; attention deficits; trolls, polarisation and hyper-partisanship; the conversion of popularity into legitimacy; manipulation by ""populist""; leaders, governments, and fringe actors; algorithmic control, targeted messaging and native advertising; surveillance and platform capitalism. The contributions from scholars, technologists, policy-makers and activists raise critical questions about the nature and power of knowledge in the 21st century. Readers are challenged to question their own role in perpetuating certain narratives and to also understand the lived context of people on all sides of a given debate. The diverse perspectives by geography, sector, gender and world-views will widen the appeal of this work to an international audience trying to understand the resilience of the post-truth society.

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Author:   Alex Grech (University of Malta, Malta)
Publisher:   Emerald Publishing Limited
Imprint:   Emerald Publishing Limited
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.20cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.579kg
ISBN:  

9781800439078

ISBN 10:   1800439075
Pages:   312
Publication Date:   08 July 2021
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Chapter 1. Introduction; Alex Grech  PART 1. Repurposing Education for the Post-Truth Society  Chapter 2. Post-truth Society: Toward a Dialogical Understanding of Truth; John P. Portelli and Soudeh Oladi  Chapter 3. Macro Authorities and Micro Literacies: The New Terrain of Information Politics; Bryan Alexander  Chapter 4. The Learning Challenge in the 21st Century; Harry Anthony Patrinos  Chapter 5. The Pre-Truth Era in MENA, News Ecology and Critical News Literacy; Abeer Al-Najjar  Chapter 6. Critical Literacy is at the Heart of an Answer; Emma Pauncefort  Chapter 7. Societal Reorientation via Programmable Trust: A Case for Piloting New Models of Open Governance in Education; Walter Fernando Balser, Steve Diasio and Taylor Kendal  PART 2. Repurposing Media for the Post-Truth Society  Chapter 8. Fact to Fake: The Media World as It Was and Is Today; Michael Bugeja  Chapter 9. Post-News Journalism in the Post-Enlightenment Era; Hossein Derakhshan  Chapter 10. How Can Wikipedia Save Us All? Assuming Good Faith from All Points of View in the Age of Fake News and Post-truth; Toni Sant  Chapter 11. Public Rebuttal, Reflection and Responsibility. Or, an Inconvenient Answer to Fake News; Ruben Brave  Chapter 12. The Kony 2012 Campaign: A Milestone of Visual Storytelling for Social Engagement; Massimiliano Fusari  Chapter 13. Post-truth Visuals, Untruth Visuals; Gorg Mallia  Chapter 14. Reflections on the Visual Truth and War Photography - A Historian’s Perspective; Anna Topolska  Chapter 15. It is Time for Journalists to Save Journalism; Lina Zuluaga and Phillip Long  PART 3. Future-proofing for the Post-Truth Society  Chapter 16. Karl Marx and the Blockchain; Devraj Basu and Murdoch J. Gabbay  Chapter 17. Two Sides to Every Story. The Truth, Post-truth, and the Blockchain Truth; Joshua Ellul, Alex Grech, and Gordon Pace Chapter 18. Decentralised Verification Technologies and the Web; Allan Third and John Domingue  Chapter 19. How Do We Know What is True?; Natalie Smolenksi  Chapter 20: Social Technologies and their Unplanned Obsolescence; Daniel Hughes

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Alex Grech is a strategist, change consultant and educator. He currently teaches new media at the University of Malta and leads The 3CL Foundation.

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