Name: Social Sciences, Arts, and Humanities in the Post-Truth Era
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Social Sciences, Arts, and Humanities in the Post-Truth Era

The Reality Machine

Edited By: V. Doğan Günay, Murat Kalelioğlu, Sibel Bayram

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This book dissects how post-truth operates in the public sphere and social media. It brings together research from different disciplines to reveal how each field has been affected by the post-truth era and what the intellectual reactions have been.

This book evaluates and dissects the ways in which post-truth operates in the public sphere and social media cape. Without understanding and exposing the workings…

This book evaluates and dissects the ways in which post-truth operates in the public sphere and social media cape. Without understanding and exposing the workings of post-truth and its uses by politicians, media, and other ideological state apparatuses, meaningful social change for the larger good of the masses, irrespective of time and space, cannot be imagined. Post-truth as a new machine of falsehood works because once a statement is spread as fact, the public neither has the expertise nor the inclination to dig deep for the truth. Social media, where such falsehoods are usually spread and believed, worsens matters.
There have been many academic and intellectual reactions to the idea and practice of post-truth, and this book brings together research from different disciplines to reveal how each discipline has been affected by the post-truth era, and what the intellectual reactions have been in each respective field.

V. Doğan Günay was a distinguished emeritus professor of language, literature, linguistics, and semiotics at Dokuz Eylül University, Türkiye. Günay wrote over twenty books and published many articles with an interdisciplinary perspective involving semiotics, language and linguistics, literary criticism, and art. He was among the founders of the Türkiye Semiotics Circle and the Tamga-Turkish Journal of Semiotic Studies. He was the society’s first president and editor-in-chief of the journal.

Murat Kalelioğlu is an associate professor at Mardin Artuklu University, Türkiye. His research interests are language and literature, culture, textual analysis and interpretation, narratology, linguistics, and semiotics. Kalelioğlu is the author of many scientific publications. He is one of the founders of the Türkiye Semiotics Circle and the Tamga-Turkish Journal of Semiotic Studies.

Sibel Bayram is an associate professor at Düzce University, Türkiye, where she completed her MPhil in Ottoman poetry. Bayram earned a PhD in modern Turkish literature at Trakya University, Türkiye. Her publications comprise many book chapters and research articles, and her research mainly focuses on Balkan literature, modern Turkish literature, and language teaching.

Aqeel Ahmed, Bujar Hoxha, Eda Yazgin, Esra Saniye Tuncer, Muhammad Haroon, Idrissou Zime Yerima, Khalid Sultan, Mustafa Aydemir, Muhammad Safeer, Sibel Bayram, Yakup Yeşilyaprak, Züleyha Hande Akata