The politics of misinformation

This book is an examination of how concentrations of social and economic power result in public languages of politics that are necessarily image-based, vague, and misleading in their denial of undemocratic tendencies. As a result, public discourses of democracy tend to be populistic, emotional, and...

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Hlavní autor: Edelman, Murray
Médium: Kniha
Jazyk:Undetermined
Vydáno: Cambridge, UK Cambridge University Press 2001
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Shrnutí:This book is an examination of how concentrations of social and economic power result in public languages of politics that are necessarily image-based, vague, and misleading in their denial of undemocratic tendencies. As a result, public discourses of democracy tend to be populistic, emotional, and likely to emphasize images of progress rather than structural inequalities in their formulations of public problems