The Truth Society : : Science, Disinformation, and Politics in Berlusconi's Italy / / Noelle Molé Liston.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Complete eBook-Package 2020
• VerfasserIn: Liston, Noelle Molé,
• Place / Publishing House: Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2020]; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Language: English
• Series: Expertise: Cultures and Technologies of Knowledge
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (240 p.) :; 14 b&w halftones
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; List of Illustrations --; Preface --; Acknowledgments --; List of Abbreviations --; Introduction --; 1. Manifest Disguise and Mediatized Politics --; 2. The Soldiers of Rationality --; 3. The Rise of Algorithm Populism --; 4. The Trial against Disinformation --; 5. Scientific Anesthetization in the Anthropocene --; Conclusion: Mirrored Window World --; Notes --; Bibliography --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781501750816; 9783110690460; 9783110704716; 9783110704518; 9783110704815; 9783110704617
• DOI: 10.1515/9781501750816?locatt=mode:legacy
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Noelle Molé Liston.

Noelle Molé Liston's The Truth Society 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. Liston scrutinizes Italy's late twentieth-century political culture, particularly the impact of the former prime minister and media mogul Silvio Berlusconi. By doing so, she 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. Liston 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. The Truth Society offers Italy as a case study for understanding the remaking of politics in an era of disinformation.