America's Post-Truth Phenomenon

Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Chapter 1 Introduction: The New Subjectivism -- Chapter 2 Truth Claims, Interpretation, and Addiction to Conviction -- Chapter 3 Because I Say So: Media Authenticity in the Age of Post-Truth and Fake News -- Chapter 4 Post-Truth: Marcuse and New Forms of Social Control -- Chapter 5 Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Manipulation of Crowds -- Chapter 6 The Post-Truth Temperament: What Makes Belief Stray from Evidence? And What Can Bring Them Back Together? -- Chapter 7 Reality for the People -- Chapter 8 Truth and Trolling -- Chapter 9 Truth, Post-Truth, and Subscriptions: Consensus, Truth, and Social Norms in Algorithmic Media -- Chapter 10 Lords of Mendacity -- Chapter 11 Losing the Feel for Truth in Post-Truth "Democracies": When Macro Data Harvesting and Micro-Targeting Befuddle Democratic Thought -- Chapter 12 Brazen New World: A Peircean Approach to Post-Truth -- Chapter 13 The Fallacy of Post-Truth -- About the Editor and Contributors -- Index