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Record Nr.

UNINA9910811700203321

Autore

Liston Noelle Molé

Titolo

The truth society : science, disinformation, and politics in Berlusconi's Italy / / Noelle Molé Liston

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Ithaca : , : Cornell University Press, , 2021

ISBN

1-5017-5080-1

1-5017-5081-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (1 online resource)

Collana

Expertise. Cultures and technologies of knowledge

Cornell scholarship online

Disciplina

306.20945

Soggetti

Political culture - Italy

Truthfulness and falsehood - Political aspects - Italy

Communication in politics - Italy

Science - Italy - Public opinion

Fake news - Political aspects - Italy

Mass media - Political aspects - Italy

Knowledge, Sociology of

Italy Politics and government 1994-2018

Italy Politics and government 2018-

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Previously issued in print: 2020.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction : The Disinformation Society -- Manifest Disguise and The Rise of Mediatized Politics -- The Soldiers of Rationality -- The Rise of Algorithm Populism -- The Trial Against Disinformation -- Scientific Anesthetization in the Anthropocene -- Conclusion : The Mirrored Window Society : Customized Data and Democratic Futures.

Sommario/riassunto

'The Truth Society' seeks to understand how a period of Italian political spectacle, which regularly blurred fact and fiction, has shaped how people understand truth, mass-mediated information, scientific knowledge, and forms of governance. The book scrutinizes Italy's late-twentieth-century political culture, particularly the impact of the former prime minister and media mogul Silvio Berlusconi. By doing so, the book examines how this truth-bending political era made science,



logic, and rationality into ideas that needed saving. With the prevalence of fake news and our seeming lack of shared reality in the 'post-truth' world, many people struggle to figure out where this new normal came from. The book argues that seemingly disparate events and practices that have unfolded in Italy are historical reactions to mediatized political forms and particular, cultivated ways of knowing.