Post-truth and the political: Constructions and distortions in representing political facts

Temmerman, Martina; Coesemans, Roel; Mast, Jelle

doi:10.1016/j.dcm.2018.10.002

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“…The remarks and intermediate questions of the participants of the parliamentary sessions are spontaneously generated. In these spontaneously produced textual units, the intention is to effectively and aggressively influence listeners [22]. For this purpose, various means of intensification are used: modal and evaluative words, tropes, stylistic figures, rhetorical devices.…”

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Public parliamentary discourse in Russia and Germany: speech and genre specifics

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In the article the approaches to the problem of political discourse speech genres differentiation are discussed based on the comparative analysis of the German and Russian public parliamentary speech authentic samples. The special status of the public speech phenomenon in parliamentary communication and its conditionality by parliamentary regulations are discussed. The communicative roles of plenary sessions' participants in Germany and Russia are described. In both parliaments, public parliamentary speech is exercised in a dialogue form, managed and controlled by the president of the Bundestag / presiding plenary session. The existence of common political goals of German and Russian public parliamentary communication proves the expediency of its comprehensive comparative study, taking into account extralinguistic and linguistic characteristics of public parliamentary speeches. The statements, representing the German and Russian public parliamentary speech, form a set of institutional genres, the emergence and functioning of which are predetermined by the parliamentary regulations. In both parliaments, they include a report, a statement, a question, and a reply, presented in several intragenre varieties, with specific national variants. Each of these genres is characterized by the use of specific methods of language expression, emotional utterances, rhetorical and polemical techniques It is indisputable that the language plays an important role in parliamentary communication. As J. Searle considers, like other public institutes, the language can also be considered as an institutein a narrow sense of the word. It is such an institute which, unlike other institutes, cannot be abolished by a resolution [6]. Without the language which is a cornerstone of "organizational rules of a discourse" [7], not only verbal communication in general, but establishment of modern public institutes is inconceivable. According to J. Charteris-Black, for designation of the language of public parliamentary communication we can accept the term "parliament language" [8].

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“…It is a virtual power relation which is also the object of the study of Discursive Institutionalism which Schmidt embraces in "discursive practices" which leads to collective action. This rationale can explain the post-truth phenomenon when political actors produce distorted information (Temmerman et al, 2019), is in harmony with Foucault's power and knowledge, namely the production of discourse to build "new knowledge" to enter its power network (Harris & Adams, 2016).…”

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Discursive Institutionalism as Framework of Analysis for Multi-Vector Power Relations in Organizing Political Parties

Kuswandoro¹,

Marijan²,

Nugroho³

2020

OJPS

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This article investigates power relations in Intra-Party Democracy in the study of organizing political parties. Intra-Party Democracy refers to the notion of formal political institutions, whereas the political process more often occurs informally, personally, multi-vector which involves multi actors, multi political resources and power relations no longer come from formal institutional sources but any direction and beyond the reach of formal institutions. Using the literature review method, this article enhances the explanation of Intra-Party Democracy by presenting the perspective of Discursive Institutionalism as an analytical framework that bridges multi-vector power relations that occur in organizing political parties. Discursive Institutionalism explores the actors' discursive capabilities, namely coordinative discourse and communicative discourse in the discursive process in organizing political parties.

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“…Like the 2008 U.S. election, the media environment during both the 2016 election and Trump Presidency became prone to similar manipulations due to Trump's influencer status. Trump's attempts at de-legitimizing the mainstream news industry and conversely raising the prospect of 'alternative facts' brought the empirical reality of facts into question, inducing within his followers the idea of 'post-truth'-that there were multiple truths, rather than one objective way of looking at it (Guadagno & Guttieri, 2019;Temmerman et al, 2018). When combined with "post-democratic processes" (Bennett & Livingston, 2018, p. 127), it is not hard to conceptualize why disinformation and misinformation spread by online personalities and outlets with dubious credentials and expertise, have become popular with right-wing online users who adhere to the post-truth…”

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Information disorder, the Triumvirate, and COVID-19: How media outlets, foreign state intrusion, and the far-right diaspora drive the COVID-19 anti-vaccination movement

Bajwa

2021

JICW

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Information disorder has become an increasing concern in the wake of the 2016 US presidential election. With the state of the COVID-19 pandemic rapidly evolving in all facets, the vaccination debate has become increasingly polarized and subjected to a form of politics based around identity markers such as nationality, ethnicity, gender, and ideology. At the forefront of this is the COVID-19 anti-vaccination movement that has gained mainstream attention, leading to conflict with pro-vaccinationists. This has paved the way for exploitation by subversive elements such as, foreign state-backed disinformation campaigns, alternative news outlets, and right-wing influencers who spread false and misleading information, or disinformation, on COVID-19 in order to promote polarization of the vaccine debate through identity politics. Disinformation spread sows confusion and disorder, leading to the erosion of social cohesion as well as the potential for real-world conflict and violence. As a result, the article below will generate further understanding of the modern-day spread of disinformation, the strategies and tactics utilized by state and non-state actors, the effects of its exposure, and the social-psychological processes involved in its spread and resonance. Furthermore, in countering this phenomenon, this article recommends a collaborative framework involving emphasis on critical media literacy skills, citizen participation, and development of counter-offensive capabilities towards state-backed information operations.

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Post-truth and the political: Constructions and distortions in representing political facts

Cited by 15 publications

References 31 publications

Public parliamentary discourse in Russia and Germany: speech and genre specifics

Public parliamentary discourse in Russia and Germany: speech and genre specifics

Discursive Institutionalism as Framework of Analysis for Multi-Vector Power Relations in Organizing Political Parties

Information disorder, the Triumvirate, and COVID-19: How media outlets, foreign state intrusion, and the far-right diaspora drive the COVID-19 anti-vaccination movement

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