Fake News in Contemporary Science and Politics:A Requiem for the Real?

by: Keith Moser (Author)

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Edition:2024th

Publication Date: 23 April 2024

Language: English

Print Length: 218 pages

ISBN-10: 3031561791

ISBN-13: 9783031561795

Book Description

This transdisciplinary book investigates the profound repercussions of living in a post-truth world in which 'alteative 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 goveance around the globe, coinciding with the rise of autocratic forms of populism.