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

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Complete eBook-Package 2020
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Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2020]
©2022
Year of Publication:2020
Language:English
Series:Expertise: Cultures and Technologies of Knowledge
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Physical Description:1 online resource (240 p.) :; 14 b&w halftones
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Table of Contents:
  • 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