White lies: a racial history of the (post)truth

Mejia, Robert; Beckermann, Kay Marie; Sullivan, Curtis J.

doi:10.1080/14791420.2018.1456668

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“…If truth is always subject to interpretation, then organised lying may be perceived as simply generating some of many co-existing truths. Indeed, to claim one truth as definitive may be tantamount to totalitarian dictatorship, opening the door to violence and inequality (Mejia et al, 2018; Nelson, 1978). Yet, organised lying remains a concern because it interferes with our ‘intersubjective judgement’ (Coleman, 2018) – our capacity and freedom to see the world from multiple different perspectives.…”

Section: Organised Lying and Contemporary Disinformationmentioning

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Organised lying and professional legitimacy: Public relations’ accountability in the disinformation debate

Edwards

2020

European Journal of Communication

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The role of the public relations industry in the disinformation debate has been largely overlooked, while an emphasis has been put on the responsibilities of platforms, media organisations and audiences to monitor content and eliminate fake news. In contrast, this article argues that disinformation and fake news are well-established tools in public relations work and are implicated in the current crisis. Drawing on an exploratory study of UK industry publications about fake news and disinformation, the article shows that public relations has addressed disinformation as a commercial opportunity and a platform for demonstrating professional legitimacy. Industry narratives position professional practice as ethical, trustworthy and true, while simultaneously ‘othering’ dubious practices and normalising ‘organised lying’. The article concludes by arguing that the fight against disinformation must take seriously the impact of public relations, if it is to be effective.

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Section: Organised Lying and Contemporary Disinformationmentioning

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Organised lying and professional legitimacy: Public relations’ accountability in the disinformation debate

Edwards

2020

European Journal of Communication

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“…Other examples are Andrew Wakefield's article on the connection between vaccination and autism and in the 2001 Enron's managers' false statements hiding the company's status during the company's bankruptcy that resulted with the loss of election by Governor of California, Gray Davis. These examples show that the concept of post-truth has actually existed in the last 30 years, although it is not included in the dictionary (Mejia et al,2018).…”

Section: Post Truth Conceptmentioning

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A Survey About University Students Perception of Post-Truth on Social Media

Yalçınkaya¹,

Dönmez²,

Aydin³

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The purpose of this paper is to survey university students' perception of posttruth on social media. The post-truth, which has been selected as the 'Word of the Year' by Oxford World Dictionaries in 2016, is a new technological era today. This new era especially effects students who have a habit of access information via social media. This survey is aimed to illustrate how university students evaluate the fake news appeared on social media and to reveal solutions about the possible negative effects of this era. The method involved in this survey is data collection from students, who represent the majority of social media users, with 5 Likert type scale questionnaires. Data has been collected from two-year degree, undergraduate, post graduate and doctoral university students who continue their studies in public and foundation universities in Turkey. There is not an existed scale to evaluate perception of post truth on social media. The existed scales are related to evaluate the technology addiction in psychology field. A standard scale has not been used and it is not aimed to develop a scale in this study.

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“…Some have narrowed in on how subtle underlying psychological tendencies influence online behavior, focusing on phenomena such the backfire effect [21] or echo chambers [22]. Another popular position is to emphasize the role of dispositions and argue the widespread rejection of the facts is the result of a deep-seated racism, sexism, or xenophobia [23]. Such explanations have been leveraged to explain how post-truth resulted in the election of a president who was often overtly misogynistic, racist, or xenophobic [23].…”

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“…Another popular position is to emphasize the role of dispositions and argue the widespread rejection of the facts is the result of a deep-seated racism, sexism, or xenophobia [23]. Such explanations have been leveraged to explain how post-truth resulted in the election of a president who was often overtly misogynistic, racist, or xenophobic [23]. However, while psychological explanations can surely help to explain why people behave the way they do online, they are insufficient as they tend to ignore the larger structural conditions in which post-truth is situated.…”

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Post-Truth: Hegemony on Social Media and Implications for Sustainability Communication

2019

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Contrary to what practice suggests, social media platforms may not be an appropriate forum for communicating with civil society about sustainability issues such as climate change. Misinformation campaigns are distorting the line between fact and falsity on social media platforms, and there has been a profound shift in the way that social media users consume and interact with information. These conditions have been popularly labeled as the post-truth era. Drawing from Neo-Marxian theory, we argue that post-truth can be explained as a new iteration of ideological struggle under capitalist hegemony. We substantiate this claim through a mixed methods investigation synthesizing corpus-assisted lexical analysis and critical discourse analysis to evaluate 900 user-generated comments taken from three articles on socioenvironmental topics published on Facebook by news organizations in the United States. The results showed that the nature of this struggle is tied explicitly to the role of science in society, where the legitimacy of science is caught in a tug-of-war of values between elitism on the one hand and a rejection of the establishment on the other. It follows that presenting truthful information in place of false information is an insufficient means of coping with post-truth. We conclude by problematizing the notion that Facebook is an adequate forum for public dialogue and advocate for a change in strategy from those wishing to communicate scientific information in the public sphere.

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White lies: a racial history of the (post)truth

Cited by 81 publications

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Organised lying and professional legitimacy: Public relations’ accountability in the disinformation debate

Organised lying and professional legitimacy: Public relations’ accountability in the disinformation debate

A Survey About University Students Perception of Post-Truth on Social Media

Post-Truth: Hegemony on Social Media and Implications for Sustainability Communication

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