Special Issue

Digital Truth-Making: Anthropological Perspectives on Right-wing Politics and Social Media in "Post-truth" Societies

Bibliographic Data

ID3097223
AuthorsChristoph Bareither (0000-0002-1784-0773, Historical and Cultural Anthropology, University of Tübingen, corresponding author), Alexander Harder (0009-0007-7631-6094, Institute for European Ethnology, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin), Dennis Eckhardt (0000-0002-5935-9144, Institute for Sociology, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU))
Year2023
Volume53
Issue2
Publication date2023-12-19
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueEthnologia Europaea (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0425-4597 • E-ISSN: 1604-3030
PublisherBerghahn Books (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.16995/ee.9594
OpenAlexW4388060412
LanguageEN
Citations received7

How do users of social media platforms produce, shape and share truths online? In this introduction, we outline our understanding of digital truth-making as a process that builds on the affordances of digital infrastructures to entangle information with social, cultural and emotional dynamics in a way that co-constitutes beliefs and convictions about the world. The contributions to the special issue illuminate how different variations of this process can be illuminated with the help of digital ethnography and additional empirical methods. In doing so, they exemplify how digital anthropology can contribute to ongoing debates about populism and right-wing politics in "post-truth" digital societies

Affordance · Cognitive psychology · Digital media · Epistemology · Ethnography · Media studies · Political science · Politics · Populism · Social media · Sociology · Anthropology · Computer Science · Cultural Studies · Law · Misinformation and Its Impacts · Music History and Culture · Psychology · Social Media and Politics

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