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Social media has become an electronic media for its users as a forum to express opinions and express ideas, so that it can present popular news, trending topics and can even be used by users to report fake news. Especially Facebook social media. Social media with different types of groups with positive comments and negative comments. Taking into account the many phenomena of fake news and post truth on social media, the researcher in this study studied political issues, more precisely during the campaign period. This study uses a qualitative descriptive method. The research method was carried out to obtain an overview of the application of the post truth phenomenon through Facebook social media as a media of information about post truth. The phenomenon of Post Truth in political campaigns on Facebook social media has a significant impact on the spread of false or inaccurate information, influence on voters' political opinions and attitudes, and voter participation in the political process. The spread of misinformation is a major challenge in political campaigns on Facebook. Fake news, false claims, and data manipulation often spread quickly and get more attention than honest content. The conclusion shows the need for coordinated action from various parties to address the Post Truth Phenomenon in political campaigns on Facebook social media. Facing the phenomenon of Post Truth in political campaigns on Facebook social media is a complex challenge, but coordinated measures and sustainable solutions will help maintain the integrity of democracy and social media. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Social media platforms have played a significant role in recent elections in the U.S. and other democracies. While Facebook and Twitter (now renamed X) claimed that they are "on a journey to connect the world," to serve the goals of reforms and to bring about more democracy, their platforms have been effectively used to spread lies, misinformation, and disinformation which led some analysts to argue that we now live in a post-truth world and that the Orwellian dystopia is upon us. This paper is an attempt to assess whether big tech companies have created an Orwellian state in the U.S. We argue that the idiom of the Orwellian dystopia has been misused by scholars, commentators, and politicians on the political left as well as the political right. Our analysis of social media, especially Facebook, shows that the social media companies are not intentionally trying to subvert American democracy. Instead, as a business, they are driven by a profit motive and the logic of "surveillance capitalism." [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The rise in populism and movements that threaten trust in science and expertise has been labeled a post-truth world. What challenges does this environment present for higher education, and how should it respond? This article examines the characteristics of a post-truth world and how that challenges the fundamental purposes of higher education. It then examines how higher education might respond, what risks come with that response, and how effectively it might resist attempts to attack and undermine its different purposes. These movements undermine possibilities for truth or objective knowledge, presenting a clear threat to higher education. Its response focuses around improving research and communication with the public, but the nature of cognitive processes in a polarized world leads people to discount information that does not fit with their existing worldviews and values. Simply providing better research will not solve the problem, and actively engaging with these movements can make higher education seem more partisan, further reducing trust. In the face of such intractable problems, it is important for higher education to also nurture communities with its students that foster trust and "critical loyalty" to knowledge and truth over falsehoods and conspiracy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Bugün özellikle iletişim ile siyaset bilimleri alanlarında en çok konuşulan kavramlardan olan post truth, gerçek ve gerçek olmayan arasındaki ayrımın belirsizleşmesini, yalanın sıradanlaşarak kabul edilir duruma gelmesini; olgulardan çok algıların, akıldan çok duyguların ve isteklerin; bunun da ötesinde iletilerde yalanın yaygınlaşarak sıradanlaştığı dönemi tanımlamaktadır. Ortaya ilk atıldığında yalanların açıkça görülmesine karşın kitlelerin neden yalan söylenmesini önemsenmediğini; hatta bunlara inanmayı neden seçtiğini sorgulayıp yanıtlayan, kıyıda köşede kalmış bir kavramken; 2016’da Oxford Sözlüğü’nce yılın sözcüğü seçilmesiyle, bugün özellikle iletişim ve siyaset bilimleri alanlarında en çok konuşulan kavramlardan birine dönüşmüştür. Kavramın ortaya atıldıktan çeyrek yüzyıl sonra parlamasının nedeni, bu süreçte internetin bireysel kullanıma açılması, sosyal medya platformlarının oluşturularak geniş kitlelerce kullanılmaya başlanması ve özellikle kişiselleştirilmiş içeriğe olanak veren elektronik ağ yazılımları sayesinde oluşan internet kültürünün ortaya çıkmasıdır. İletişim araçların oluşturduğu ortam, baskın olduğu dönemin insanlarının ve o dönemde yaygın olan zihniyetin inşasında belirgin bir etkendir. İnternet kültürünün oluşmasıyla kişilerarası iletişim ve kitle iletişimi bağlamlarında görülen köklü değişimler, enformasyon üretimindeki ve dağıtımındaki rolü değişen internet kullanıcısının; post truth çağın öğelerinden birine dönüşmesine neden olmuştur. Bu makalede internet kültürünün temel öğelerinden biri olan internet kullanıcısının enformasyon dağıtımına etkisi, araç ile birey ilişkisi üzerinden irdelenerek; post truth çağdaki rolü, konstrüktivist yaklaşımla, betimsel alan analizi ile incelenmektedir.

This study explores the challenges facing sustainable journalism practices in the post-truth era through interviews conducted with journalists in Northern Cyprus. Based on the perspectives of professionals in the field, the aim is to understand current issues related to the feasibility of ethical and sustainable journalism. The study indicates that challenges specific to the media field, compounded by the post-truth effect, relegate sustainable journalism practices to the sidelines. In this context, essential measures for the enduring success of media organizations include strategies like diversifying revenue sources, embracing digital subscription models, investigating alternative business models, enforcing transparent editorial policies, and actively involving readers. The study also reveals the effects of financial difficulties such as low salaries, limited budgets, and financial constraints on the professional practices of journalists through interviews. Furthermore, through interviews, it elucidates how technological changes, the rise of digital media, and the rapid dissemination of news affect journalists' information control processes and knowledge management strategies. Finally, while contributing to our understanding of how journalists in Northern Cyprus confront challenges in the post-truth era, this study presents the factors that may have a negative impact on sustainable journalism practices through an example and offers insights into common problems that may be encountered in this regard. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Criticisms on the failures of the modernity project by those who think about what is happening in the social world, from social scientists and writers to thinkers and artists increase daily. In this regard, Byung-Chul Han, a German thinker of South Korean origin is one of the most popular names in recent times and has also managed to attract attention with his criticisms of the changing dimensions of neoliberalism and capitalism prevalent in the post-industrial age. Similarly, the film Parasite, which was released in 2019 and attracted attention by winning Oscar awards in many branches, appears as a cinematic criticism of the capitalist mentality and the problems it has created. This masterpiece by the famous South Korean director Bong Joon-ho reveals the drama of a lower-class family caught in the grip of greed, resentment, and imitation, showing how capitalism deepens the division between classes with each passing day. The film reveals the situation of late modern people who are crushed under commands such as "positivity performance", "passion for being smooth and perfect", "compulsion to perform and compete", "success and self-marketing", while dreaming of having a job and a more comfortable life. Rather than analyze a film in a sociological context, the article aims to make a modest contribution to the analysis of modern society, starting from the perspective of a South Korean writer and director and his proposal for a new society in the form of the "parasitic society.". [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The film Joker (2019) garnered huge interest from audiences worldwide and honored at the box office with an amount exceeding one billion dollars. Indeed, Joker has a class and political reflection on society. This article claims that the film Joker is a manifesto against the political forces that prioritize populist, authoritarian, and ruthless capitalist policies all over the world. The aim of our study is to analyze how the class movement is shown and examined in Joker. Joker's anti-system and anti-capitalist stance needs a sociological analysis; this analysis examines how Joker reflects people's subconscious and inspires class resistance. Another important point is to analyze the movie scenes with a descriptive analysis that will help us understand the transformation of the social movement. How the characters are assigned semiotically in the script is another requirement in terms of emphasizing what the film tells implicitly. It is important both to understand the chaos of the working class, which has not yet positioned itself in the production relations of the postmodern period after, and to see the film's recipe for why the working class should not incline towards right-wing populist politics. Understanding these two points will be the most important result and achievement of our study. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The film Joker (2019) garnered huge interest from audiences worldwide and honored at the box office with an amount exceeding one billion dollars. Indeed, Joker has a class and political reflection on society. This article claims that the film Joker is a manifesto against the political forces that prioritize populist, authoritarian, and ruthless capitalist policies all over the world. The aim of our study is to analyze how the class movement is shown and examined in Joker. Joker's anti-system and anti-capitalist stance needs a sociological analysis; this analysis examines how Joker reflects people's subconscious and inspires class resistance. Another important point is to analyze the movie scenes with a descriptive analysis that will help us understand the transformation of the social movement. How the characters are assigned semiotically in the script is another requirement in terms of emphasizing what the film tells implicitly. It is important both to understand the chaos of the working class, which has not yet positioned itself in the production relations of the postmodern period after, and to see the film's recipe for why the working class should not incline towards right-wing populist politics. Understanding these two points will be the most important result and achievement of our study.

The use of media sources increases exponentially during a health crisis or disaster. Similarly, digital health information and misinformation can spread quickly through social media. From the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, the press conference has been one of the federal, state, and territory governments' key outlets for providing updates, containing misinformation, reassuring constituents, and articulating public health measures. This article focuses on NSW press conferences relating to the major Delta outbreak in Australia. The article looks at the press conferences as they pertain to the NSW government's controversial targeting of the lower socioeconomic and ethnically diverse south-west 'hotspot' or 'LGA of concern', Fairfield, which turned the LGA into an area of intense policing. We argue strategic manoeuvring in the press conferences, through the individualisation of responsibility and blame shifting, formed part of the NSW government's attempts to minimise political fallout. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Have we entered a 'post-truth' era? This article is an attempt to answer this question by (a) offering an explication of the notion of 'post-truth' from recent discussions, (b) deriving a testable implication from that explication, to the effect that we should expect to see decreasing information effects – that is, differences between actual preferences and estimated, fully informed preferences – on central political issues over time and then (c) putting the relevant narrative to the test by way of counterfactual modelling, using election year data for the period of 2004–2016 from the American National Election Studies' Times Series Study. The implication in question turns out to be consistent with the data: at least in a US context, we do see evidence of a decrease in information effects on key, political issues – immigration, same-sex adoption and gun laws, in particular – in the period 2004–2016. This offers some novel, empirical evidence for the 'post-truth' narrative. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Looking back at the 2019 Sharpiegate affair, the article investigates the articulation of "pre-truth," which became evident when a willful ambivalence toward factual evidence dovetailed with a juxtaposition of provisional, future-oriented truth claims. In general, the maneuver works by taking predictive statements from the past and characterizing them as accurate from the standpoint of the present even when superseded by subsequent evidence. The notion of "pre-truth" adds nuance to conceptions of post-truth by looking more closely at the intertwining of veracity and temporality. Drawing lessons from the Sharpiegate affair, we show how the @realDonaldTrump Twitter account was employed to distort meteorological forecasts and challenge journalism's privilege to premediate events as they unfold. In turn, legacy media organizations struggled to ward off these attacks. We investigate the snowballing U.S. news story around the affair using tweets and articles and reconstruct the frames bolstering the attempted pushback. None of the frames we found were new. Rather, they reflect yet another moment of public consternation and its limitations in coming to terms with the versatile repertoire of populist truth-tampering. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Bakhtin famously argued that language-as-used is essentially dialogic. One pragmatic implication concerns how dialogicity is established in various contexts. In political discourse, polemic polyphony emerges from the juxtaposition of adversarial voices of political actors: a dialogue in which different voices index different ideological orientations. Polyphonic ensembles establish discoursal scenes and make them recognizable, enabling distinctions such as those between 'us' and 'them', and between heroes and villains. Overall, they assist speakers in the semiotic mediation of political relations. The corpus includes eighteen speeches delivered during a dissent event that takes place after the Sheikh Jarrah weekly anti-occupation demonstration in East Jerusalem. The speeches are given in Hebrew by a Palestinian neighborhood resident and activist, to a small audience of regular Jewish-Israeli protestors. Through studying noninstitutionalized political discourse, dialogicity and polemic polyphony are illuminated in an on-the-ground, context-rich, and marginalized setting. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

False news and rumors have grown frequent in today's world. The dissemination of such information has only been helped and hastened by the media and modern information and communication technology, with far-reaching repercussions. Traditional media is losing its audience's confidence, and more and more people are getting their news from their peers through social media. Not only has social media altered the way news is distributed, but it has also called into question long-held views about what news should look like. One thing is certain: this situation cannot be sustained; a new paradigm must be developed to restore trust in the media and the information they provide.

Aristoteles started his famous work called "Metaphysics" by saying "All people naturally want to know". On the other hand, Plato, by making a "Cave Metaphor / Allegory" in his book which name ise "State", is that there is no way to know that our knowledge, what we hear, perceptions and beliefs are likely to be a "Game of Shadows" and in this case our life is a "Game of Shadows". A "Game of Shadows" is being played on the social media scene and space. Nowadays, according to conducted the two research, the first one made by MIT University is to explain two thirds of the news lie in social media channels and also second the second one made by Oxford Universities is to explain half the news lie in social media channels. Contemporary thinkers conceptualize this situation as "posttruth". With the post-truth concept, people and masses do not question accuracy, reality and truth, and even accept these false news as they are. Contrary to the concept of "post-truth", Parrhesia means to tell the truth and truth in Ancient Greek. The concept of Parrhesiastes, on the other hand, defines the person who uses "parrhesia", that is, who tells the truth, truth, frankness, open heartedness and uses freedom of speech. In the research, phenomenological method is suggested to find the truth expression in social media or to be the one who expresses the truth. In the phenomenology that Husserl is the founder of, he suggests that we begin to question all the concepts that have been learned and taught, starting with ourselves, by changing the naive attitude we have explained above to the objects and the images of the objects, to reduce them with a "reflexive" act. The research firstly investigates the concept of "parrhesia", which is the person who expresses the truth historically, and the "post-truth" concepts of today, descriptively. And "who is parrhesiastic, in other words, how can we distinguish that a person is a parrhesiastes? It aims to examine its problematic. In the article, the answer to this question is given as phenomenology. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The post truth era has become a new vocabulary for cadres who never give up in following the times. But who would have thought that the post truth era would also lead to a dilemma that never ended after unsettling the cadre team in Cibeusi village. The cadre team that was incorporated from 3 RWs including RW 06, RW 014, and RW 015 also showed their dedication through regular social activities. Therefore, the authors use a qualitative approach through data collection techniques in the form of observation and interviews. The results obtained show the following; 1) designing social movements as an effort made by the Cibeusi cadre team in overcoming health information hoaks and the post truth era; 2) the Cibeusi cadre team's social movement implementation consists of 3 words, namely active, innovative, and creative; 3) cadre team social movements include communication programs in the form of counseling and training involving academics or related medical personnel as the main sources in providing literacy movement training programs; 4) Evaluation of the ongoing literacy movement as part of the success of the government health program output.

The final days of the Trump presidency and its aftermath brought into sharp focus the issue of political lying. Politicians have historically employed rhetoric and rhetorical spin to embellish the truth and hide damaging information. However, outright lying has traditionally been deemed politically too risky, resulting in resignation and the undermining of public trust. In contrast, recent electoral successes —the 2016 Brexit Referendum and the 2019 general election in the United Kingdom, and Trump's victory in 2016 and his increased electoral support in 2020—point to an apparent growing tendency for politicians caught lying not to be punished at the ballot box. Using the U.K. Brexit referendum and the 2019 general election as its case study, this conceptual paper argues that strategic political lying has been designed as a priming device to set the news agenda. As an effective campaigning tactic "strategic lying" represents a development of political spin—first evident in the mass media era—that has been intensified by the increasing professionalization of political communications and the rise of social media. In doing so, the concept of "strategic lying" theorized here contributes to deepening our understanding of the ongoing evolution of "spin" in the digital era. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Review of the book The History and Theory of Post-Truth Communication, recently written by Guido Gili and Giovanni Maddalena.

This article suggests that fact checking is a useful but incomplete framework for delivering an epistemically healthy public sphere. Through a brief history of the fact/value distinction, it is argued that there is no secure justification for limiting interventions aimed at improving the emergent digital public sphere only to factual claims. On this basis, the heuristic principle of 'value checking' is outlined, as a complement to fact checking in the epistemic regulation of democratic discourse. Value checking would accept that more sophisticated and deliberative communication is a vital requirement for a well‐functioning public sphere, and that this can be promoted through new forms of epistemic regulation. However, it would reject the notion that fact checking is sufficient to achieve this, suggesting that the promotion of healthy political communication should also extend to value‐based reasoning. The principle of value checking could be added to the fact‐checking paradigm as a means of further enriching the public sphere in the 'post‐truth' age. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Technology has been embraced by the human kind very quickly, including social media, but studies on the impact of technology and social media on the human being and the society have never been achieved. Some side effects have been considered vulnerabilities and used for information warfare, using fake news and disinformation. When the Covid-19 pandemic exploded, in March, 2020, the combined impact of the two did create a real perfect storm, with important consequences for the international relations, global security but also for the intelligence activities in times of crisis. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The “imperative of data” seems to be at the core of current debates concerning relationships between technology and society, as well as the status of knowledge, freedom and identity. Departing from the plenary roundtable Datafication and Technoscience from Below: Sharing, Moving, Opening at the 7th STS Italia Conference held in Padua (June 2018), the authors go through different aspects of the sociotechnical process of datafication, emphasizing from complementary STS perspectives some of the most urgent and emergent challenges posed by the constant exploitation of data at an economic and financial level. Topics covered are ambivalences of datafication and their consequences for everyday life (Pellegrino); the epistemological consequences of the “race to the bottom-up” and fake news as ultimate drift of such a race (Söderberg); data-logies and grassroots epistemologies as conditions for possibility for a datafication from below (Milan).

This article reviews the background of the emergence of Post-truth and the impact of Post-truth. This lecture uses literature review by examining various sources of reading in mass media and social media. The results of this paper explain that in Indonesia Post-truth auctioning and post-election 2019 is rife on social media. Post-truth on social media does not stop there but continues to roll on various problems that exist in this country. Starting is an ethnicity, religion, and race. Hoaxes and hate speech using social media platforms as a means of spreading are not trivial matters, because the series of attacks may continue to surge. The pressure from social media often forms wild and uncontrollable opinions, which are hoped to be exploited by some groups for certain interests.

In this paper, I explore under what specific circumstances post-truth undermines democratic legitimacy. First, I argue that post-truth and empirical truths coexist in a fragile epistemic balance. Second, I identify three situations from which post-truth can tip the balance to your advantage and thus dominate the public scene. Third, I point out that the loss of democratic legitimacy is greater when post-truth is associated with political conduct unconcerned by error. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

At a time in press history, there was a great attraction for the tabloid format of newspapers because of its report of sensationalism from the days of inception as Penny Press in the United States of America. Although that appeal still holds globally, this is only one form of news reporting. For a long time, the connotation of mainstream media has been associated with professional news reporting built on facts, as evidenced in hard news reporting. But emphasis seems to have shifted to an equation of sensationalism with all mainstream media as a result of the exponential progression of fake news in recent times. The paper aims to de-emphasise the perception that mainstream media are the major purveyors of fake news. Conspiracy theory and social responsibility theory were used as theoretical leanings. Content analysis of two major newspapers (the City Press and the Mail & Guardian) was conducted to ascertain instances of fake news reportage for a three-month period at the height of "white monopoly capital" narratives in South Africa. Findings reveal that news reporting in South Africa is still guided by tenets of professional journalism. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Il contributo assume come punto nevralgico il tema del falso nella società della verità post fattuale. Dopo avere ribadito che il concetto di verità costituisce un elemento decisivo per la sopravvivenza stessa della democrazia e averne precisato il senso, spesso travisato, discute l'impatto e l'ambivalenza della rete come luogo di produzione e diffusione di informazioni controfattuali, evidenziando come la caduta di credibilità delle tradizionali autorità di validazione delle conoscenze abbia radici più profonde e più lontane. Sostiene l'esigenza e la possibilità di contrastare una deriva indifferente al vero, inteso come continua ricerca e come dibattito pubblico basato su fatti e argomentazioni e non come dogma. Evidenzia, infine, un ruolo non solo possibile, ma già più che intravisto, da parte delle biblioteche pubbliche nei confronti di una problematica che non può essere ignorata, toccando la loro stessa ragion d'essere.

The present text seeks to make a reflection about reading, considering it in the bulge of a contemporaneity represented by uncertainties, by vertiginous changes in the production, circulation and consumption of information and knowledge, which puts the reader formation ahead of a great challenge. In post-truth times, with persecution, interdiction, precarious work of professionals and the physical structures of public institutions at all levels of education in the country, the school is an important flank of resistance in preparing children and youth to deal critically with the dizzying textualities presented daily to be consumed at the same speed as they circulate in social networks. From this perspective, this text defends the teaching of reading as a political act that can generate critical thinking in the face of social contradictions, enabling the new generations to circulate more easily in the expanded field of contemporary cross-languages, including those from digital technologies and the fight against intolerant speeches. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Governance models are increasingly driven by information technology (IT) and are being applied to measure the performance of all kinds of organisational activity including that of universities. This paper investigates whether the language embedded in the production and use of data for governance models based on IT facilitates a governance culture that excludes the scholarly insights of university professionals. Drawing on the language philosophy of the live language games of capable habitus-based practices and that of the digital language of IT systems, we argue that the reductive, digital language embedded in IT-based performance measures might destroy the live language game through which scholars of universities produce and develop complex cognitive conceptual habitus. Managers in thrall to the digital language of control accessible via IT can use it to create operational paths that crowd out the free cognitive conceptual habitus of the university scholars. Accordingly, the culture of the corporate university is moving towards a post-truth state. The situation suggests that the role of universities as the foundation for the whole project of enlightenment and knowledge-based society is threatened. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Psychological wavelengths intermingled in pursuance of roots of various characteristics as reflected through the novel Blindness are different conceptual explorations. Identity is an intricate term in the present scenario. For him, the novel is a medium where socio-cultural and political issues are addressed and his voice acts as a didactic language that represents the colonial and postcolonial subjects. Moreover, he illustrates the political ideology in a different way. The representation of the other by a meta-narrative voice is the hallmark of Jose Saramago's novels. In his novels, he acts as an all-knowing narrator or implied author who tries to transform the society and the Portuguese culture in general. The representation of the other in the novel Blindness is a kind of historical discourse which is articulated as artificial, a constructed category, a power-based and discriminatory construction. Of course, it is communicated through conventional, discursive and narrative strategies. Hence, we find a relation between history and story in these narratives. As so many disaster narratives start, Blindness also begins with a disaster-traffic jam. It anticipates a search for identity. In the novel, Saramago invites our attention to think of a kind of chaos and horror that happens in Blindness. In the novel Blindness, the identities clash with one another owing to the common identity of blindness having a big and tremendous impact in it one way or the other. In short, the significance of blindness becomes dominant only when there is eyesight and the existence of the nonblind. In that way, the blind have their own identity and culture and Saramago tries to add more coloring to that identity in a philosophical and eschatological manner. The paper intends to explain that idea. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Reservation policy stands for the representative nature of the Indian democracy as well as to guarantee equality as envisioned in the preamble of the constitution to every Indian citizen. This paper wouldlook into how the reservationi debates arepmceedingin theonlinemedia andnetworkingplaiforms, with emphasis given to the caste equations that underlie Anti-Reservation trolls that are shared online. Tmlls have become a means to respond to anythingand everything that is happening a round. With regards to the increasing impact of trolls, the paper would be looking at cyber public sphere, a seemingly democratic space for its potential to be an agent of majoritarian hegemony. This paper uses the methodology of discourse analysis to analyse the biased portrayal ofdalits in the anti-reservation trolls which denies theprevalenceof castebaseddiscrimination and poverty of the community actvss India. This paper uses the framework of llabermas' theory of public sphere to analyse the do it participation online. By analysing varied facets of reservation debates online, this paper would be looking at politics of exclusion thai'marks cyber public spherein India, with special' reference to daitmarginalization online. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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In this paper, the notion of post truth, defined as the circumstances in which objective facts are less influential in shaping public opinion than appeals to emotion and personal belief, and the persistence of individuals for sticking with subjective facts by ignoring objective facts is analyzed theoretically. This analysis uses political communication as the context and takes technological determinism theory developed by McLuhan, minimal effects theory by Klapper and cognitive dissonance theory by Festinger as the basis. Technological determinism theory is used as a frame for explaining how the changes that information technologies of today trigger in human life, value and practices and the evolution of seeking information, receiving information, expressing oneself and communicating through the internet and social media, devalue subjective reality and accelerate post truth. Klapper's minimal effect theory was included to investigate the tendency of individuals to seek, accept and retain information that is in line with their ideas, beliefs, and attitudes in today's environment of media variety and by taking the increased ability of individuals to personalize media sources in order to associate these factors with post truth. Festinger's cognitive dissonance theory was used to explain why people show a tendency for post truth. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aim of this study is to give information about the symposium, which is organized by Hacettepe University Department of Information Management under the theme of "Post-truth and Information Management". Another purpose of the study is to make personal assessments about the symposium topics, based on the questions and issues discussed during the symposium. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]