LEADER 03482oam 2200577Mu 450 001 9910973014103321 005 20241207110032.0 010 $a9780262345989 010 $a0262345986 010 $a9780262345972 010 $a0262345978 024 8 $a15163293 035 $a(CKB)4340000000245943 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5294979 035 $a(OCoLC)1024286475$z(OCoLC)1036296363$z(OCoLC)1089935888 035 $a(OCoLC-P)1024286475 035 $a(MaCbMITP)11483 035 $a(PPN)229709478 035 $a(FR-PaCSA)88862974 035 $a(ODN)ODN0003859929 035 $a(FRCYB88862974)88862974 035 $a(EXLCZ)994340000000245943 100 $a20180224d2018 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 10$aPost-truth /$fLee McIntyre 210 $d2018 210 1$aCambridge :$cMIT Press,$d[2018] 215 $a1 online resource (242 pages) 225 1 $aThe MIT Press Essential Knowledge Series 311 08$a0-262-53504-1 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aWhat is post-truth? -- Science denial as a road map for understanding post-truth -- The roots of cognitive bias -- The decline of traditional media -- The rise of social media and the problem of fake news -- Did post-modernism lead to post-truth? -- Fighting post-truth. 330 $a"Are we living in a post-truth world, where "alternative facts" replace actual facts and feelings have more weight than evidence? How did we get here? In this volume in the MIT Press Essential Knowledge series, Lee McIntyre traces the development of the post-truth phenomenon from science denial through the rise of "fake news," from our psychological blind spots to the public's retreat into information silos. What, exactly, is post-truth? Is it wishful thinking, political spin, mass delusion, bold-faced lying? McIntyre analyzes recent examples--claims about inauguration crowd size, crime statistics, and the popular vote--and finds that post-truth is an assertion of ideological supremacy by which its practitioners try to compel someone to believe something regardless of the evidence. Yet post-truth didn't begin with the 2016 election; the denial of scientific facts about smoking, evolution, vaccines, and climate change offers a road map for more widespread fact denial. Add to this the wired-in cognitive biases that make us feel that our conclusions are based on good reasoning even when they are not, the decline of traditional media and the rise of social media, and the emergence of fake news as a political tool, and we have the ideal conditions for post-truth. McIntyre also argues provocatively that the right wing borrowed from postmodernism--specifically, the idea that there is no such thing as objective truth--in its attacks on science and facts. McIntyre argues that we can fight post-truth, and that the first step in fighting post-truth is to understand it"--$cPublisher's website. 410 0$aMIT Press essential knowledge series. 606 $aTruth 606 $aTruthfulness and falsehood 615 0$aTruth. 615 0$aTruthfulness and falsehood. 676 $a121 686 $aPHI004000$aPHI019000$aPOL071000$2bisacsh 700 $aMcIntyre$b Lee C.$0862983 801 0$bOCoLC-P 801 1$bOCoLC-P 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910973014103321 996 $aPost-truth$94340986 997 $aUNINA