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Author Liston, Noelle Molé, author

Title The truth society : science, disinformation, and politics in Berlusconi's Italy / Noelle Molé Liston
Published Ithaca [New York] : Cornell University Press, 2020
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Description 1 online resource
Series Expertise: Cultures and Technologies of Knowledge
Contents 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
Summary "This book seeks to understand how the late-twentieth-century era of Italian political spectacle, which regularly blurred fact and fiction, has shaped how people understand truth, particularly mass mediated information, and in turn, scientific knowledge and forms of governance"-- Provided by publisher
Analysis Politics of information, Post-truth, disinformation, digital democracy populism
anthropocene
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes In English
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on October 29, 2020)
Subject 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.
sociology of knowledge.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / History
Communication in politics
Knowledge, Sociology of
Mass media -- Political aspects
Political culture
Politics and government
Science -- Public opinion
Truthfulness and falsehood -- Political aspects
SUBJECT Italy -- Politics and government -- 1994-2018. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh96008571
Italy -- Politics and government -- 2018- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2019000531
Subject Italy
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2020003688
ISBN 9781501750809
1501750801
9781501750816
150175081X