True Enough: Learning to Live in a Post-Fact Society

Manjoo, Farhad

ISBN 10: 0470050101 / ISBN 13: 9780470050101

Edité par John Wiley & Sons Inc, Hoboken, New Jersey, 2008

A propos de cet article

250 pages with Notes and Index. "Manjoo presents findings from psychology, sociology, political science, and economics to show how new technologies are prompting the cultural ascendancy of belief over facts.".

N° de réf. du vendeur 11324

Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: True Enough: Learning to Live in a Post-Fact Society
• Éditeur: John Wiley & Sons Inc, Hoboken, New Jersey
• Date de parution: 2008
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0470050101
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780470050101
• Reliure: Hardcover
• Édition: First Edition
• État de l'article: Fine
• État de la jaquette: Fine
• Catalogues du vendeur:
  • Psychology/Self Help/Therapy

A propos de ce titre

Synopsis

True Enough Why do lies seem to linger so long in the cultural subconscious even after they've been thoroughly discredited? This title explores the controversies of national politics, foreign affairs, and business, explaining how Americans have begun to organize themselves into echo chambers that harbor different facts from those of the larger culture. Full description

Revue de presse

In 2005, Stephen Colbert catapulted the word truthiness the quality of an idea feeling true without any backup evidence into the public consciousness. Salon blogger Manjoo expands upon this concept in his perceptive analysis of the status of truth in the digital age, critiquing a Rashomon–like world in which competing versions of truth vie for our attention. Driven by research and study, the book relies on abstract psychological and sociological concepts, such as selective exposure and peripheral processing, though these are fleshed out with examples from American history, politics and media. For example, Manjoo demonstrates how the Swift Boat Veterans′ negative campaign derailed John Kerry′s 2004 presidential run. He also points out that the sheer quantity of 9/11 imagery has engendered more conspiracy theories, not fewer demonstrating, he says, the disjunction between truth and proof. Manjoo rounds out his analysis by examining the workings of partisan news realities, and he points out that the first casualty in these truth wars is a basic human and civic need: trust. Though several of the author′s ideas are repetitiously threaded through his narrative, Manjoo has produced an engaging, illustrative look at the dangers of living in an oversaturated media world. (Mar.) ( Publishers Weekly, January 28, 2008)

"...Manjoo has produced an engaging, illustrative look at the dangers of living in an oversaturated media world." ( Publishers Weekly, January 28, 2008)