Re-thinking Mediations of Post-truth Politics and Trust

This collection reaches beyond fake news and propaganda, beyond misinformation and charismatic liars, to explore the lesser-publicized cultural forms and practices that serve as a cultural infrastructure for post-truth society and politics.

Jayson Harsin is Associate Professor of Media and Politics and Director of the Center for Media, Communication & Global Change, American University of Paris. He has published widely on the relationship of deception, popular media, and politics, in the context of cultural globalization.

1. Introduction: Post-truth as Globalizing Public Mood (Indefinite, Anxious, Dystopic) 2. Media and the Restyling of Politics 20 years on: A Note. (March 2023) 3. The Post-truth of Rape 4. Wikiality within the Manosphere: Namuwiki, Gender Equalism, and Antifeminist Disinformation in the Post-Truth Era 5. Redpilling and the Archaic Roots of Patriarchal Post-truth 6. The Nordic Far Right and the Production of Gut Feelings 7. Fake Mirror Selfies and the Reproduction of Generalized Cultural Distrust 8. Seeing Through the Fog of War: Assessing Epistemic Burden around Cheapfakes and Deepfakes of Geopolitical Crisis 9. The Truth About Influence 10. Post-truth in Turkey: Political Economy of media and Articulations of Gender, Ethnicity and Nationalism 11. Ethno-nationalist drivers of the Indian media truth-telling crisis 12. Rumoring as Contention in the Chinese Digital Sphere