The Truth Society
Science, Disinformation, and Politics in Berlusconi's Italy
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23509491 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Noelle Molé Liston (0000-0003-4628-9578) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Publication date | 2020-11-15 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | BOOK |
| Venue | Truth Society (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Cornell University Press (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.7591/cornell/9781501750786.001.0001 |
| OpenAlex | W4250769922 |
| Open Library | OL34672913M |
| ISBN | 9781501750786 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
This book seeks to understand how a period of Italian political spectacle, which regularly blurred fact and fiction, has shaped how people understand truth, mass-mediated information, scientific knowledge, and forms of governance. The book scrutinizes Italy's late-twentieth-century political culture, particularly the impact of the former prime minister and media mogul Silvio Berlusconi. By doing so, the book examines how this truth-bending political era made science, logic, and rationality into ideas that needed saving. With the prevalence of fake news and our seeming lack of shared reality in the “post-truth” world, many people struggle to figure out where this new normal came from. The book argues that seemingly disparate events and practices that have unfolded in Italy are historical reactions to mediatized political forms and particular, cultivated ways of knowing. Politics, then, is always sutured to how knowledge is structured, circulated, and processed. This book offers Italy as a case study for understanding the remaking of politics in an era of disinformation.
Disinformation · Media studies · Political culture · Political science · Politics · Post truth · Social media · Sociology · Spectacle · History · Italian Fascism and Post-war Society · Law · Renaissance and Early Modern Studies
| Unique citing works | 4 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,33 |
| Citation span | 2023 - 2026 (4) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |