The politics of misinformation / Murray Edelman.
Edelman, Murray J. (Murray Jacob), 1919-| Call Number | 320/.01/4 |
| Author | Edelman, Murray J. 1919- author. |
| Title | The politics of misinformation / Murray Edelman. |
| Physical Description | 1 online resource (xi, 139 pages) : digital, PDF file(s). |
| Series | Communication, society and politics |
| Notes | Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015). |
| Summary | The Politics of Misinformation 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. Similarly, discourses of policy solutions to public problems emphasize assumptions about rationality in policy processes that are equally poor descriptions of most political outcomes. In short, neither typical problem definitions nor solutions invite critical popular understanding or involvement in democratic politics. |
| Subject | COMMUNICATION IN POLITICS. Communication Political aspects. Rhetoric Political aspects. Deception. ELITE (SOCIAL SCIENCES) |
| Multimedia |
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| Summary | The Politics of Misinformation 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. Similarly, discourses of policy solutions to public problems emphasize assumptions about rationality in policy processes that are equally poor descriptions of most political outcomes. In short, neither typical problem definitions nor solutions invite critical popular understanding or involvement in democratic politics. |
| Notes | Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015). |
| Subject | COMMUNICATION IN POLITICS. Communication Political aspects. Rhetoric Political aspects. Deception. ELITE (SOCIAL SCIENCES) |
| Multimedia |