Kenyas Metamendacity History Between 1885 2017 And The Ensuing Post Truth Construct

Author : Kiboyye Okoth-Yogo
Publisher : Grin Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9783668595644
Total Pages : 24 pages
Book Rating : 4.4X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Kenya's Metamendacity History Between 1885-2017 and the Ensuing "Post-Truth" Construct written by Kiboyye Okoth-Yogo and published by Grin Publishing. This book was released on 2018-01-03 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essay from the year 2017 in the subject Communications - Media History, grade: College, Moi University (Peace Institute), course: Communications-Media History, language: English, abstract: Politics the world over, and probably in all history, has always fed on incessant lies and half truths. However, the proliferation of the mass "media media-social media" convergence has engendered an explosive and domineering twist. This falls into what some thinkers now refer to as the "post-truth" era, revealing an historical angle to the pertinent subject matter. According to the Oxford dictionary "Post-truth" denote "circumstances in which objective facts are less influential in shaping public opinion than appeals to emotion and personal belief." It is herein acknowledged that even though post-truth concept got its initial impetus from the US' Nixonian Watergate scandal of the early 1970s, it climaxed during the 2016 Trump and Brexit campaigns, and now its synthesis blooms globally. The objective of the paper is to put the idea of post-truth into Kenyan perspective, construing the media-politics nexus there from. To achieve this, a history of colonial and post colonial systems of lies- "political-metamendacity matrix" PMM) is traced. It is established that the current wave of political lies in Kenya is a product of the very foundations of the state edifice, not only exacerbated by contemporary information implosion but also the myriad digital opportunities. The paper brings Kenya into the ongoing global conversation on the existence, meaning and ramification of the "post-truth."

Author : Kiboyye Okoth-Yogo
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3668595631
Total Pages : 24 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Kenya’s Metamendacity History between 1885-2017 and the Ensuing "Post-Truth" Construct written by Kiboyye Okoth-Yogo and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2017-12-18 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essay from the year 2017 in the subject Communications - Media History, grade: College, Moi University (Peace Institute), course: Communications-Media History, language: English, abstract: Politics the world over, and probably in all history, has always fed on incessant lies and half truths. However, the proliferation of the mass “media media-social media” convergence has engendered an explosive and domineering twist. This falls into what some thinkers now refer to as the “post-truth” era, revealing an historical angle to the pertinent subject matter. According to the Oxford dictionary “Post-truth” denote “circumstances in which objective facts are less influential in shaping public opinion than appeals to emotion and personal belief.” It is herein acknowledged that even though post-truth concept got its initial impetus from the US’ Nixonian Watergate scandal of the early 1970s, it climaxed during the 2016 Trump and Brexit campaigns, and now its synthesis blooms globally. The objective of the paper is to put the idea of post-truth into Kenyan perspective, construing the media-politics nexus there from. To achieve this, a history of colonial and post colonial systems of lies- “political-metamendacity matrix” PMM) is traced. It is established that the current wave of political lies in Kenya is a product of the very foundations of the state edifice, not only exacerbated by contemporary information implosion but also the myriad digital opportunities. The paper brings Kenya into the ongoing global conversation on the existence, meaning and ramification of the “post-truth.”

Author : Tony Judt
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 9780143037750
Total Pages : 1000 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Postwar written by Tony Judt and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2006-09-05 with total page 1000 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize • Winner of the Council on Foreign Relations Arthur Ross Book Award • One of the New York Times' Ten Best Books of the Year “Impressive . . . Mr. Judt writes with enormous authority.” —The Wall Street Journal “Magisterial . . . It is, without a doubt, the most comprehensive, authoritative, and yes, readable postwar history.” —The Boston Globe Almost a decade in the making, this much-anticipated grand history of postwar Europe from one of the world's most esteemed historians and intellectuals is a singular achievement. Postwar is the first modern history that covers all of Europe, both east and west, drawing on research in six languages to sweep readers through thirty-four nations and sixty years of political and cultural change-all in one integrated, enthralling narrative. Both intellectually ambitious and compelling to read, thrilling in its scope and delightful in its small details, Postwar is a rare joy. Judt's book, Ill Fares the Land, republished in 2021 featuring a new preface by bestselling author of Between the World and Me and The Water Dancer, Ta-Nehisi Coates.

Author : Shakuntala Banaji
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000553515
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Social Media and Hate written by Shakuntala Banaji and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-12-30 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using expert interviews and focus groups, this book investigates the theoretical and practical intersection of misinformation and social media hate in contemporary societies. Social Media and Hate argues that these phenomena, and the extreme violence and discrimination they initiate against targeted groups, are connected to the socio-political contexts, values and behaviours of users of social media platforms such as Facebook, TikTok, ShareChat, Instagram and WhatsApp. The argument moves from a theoretical discussion of the practices and consequences of sectarian hatred, through a methodological evaluation of quantitative and qualitative studies on this topic, to four qualitative case studies of social media hate, and its effects on groups, individuals and wider politics in India, Brazil, Myanmar and the UK. The technical, ideological and networked similarities and connections between social media hate against people of African and Asian descent, indigenous communities, Muslims, Dalits, dissenters, feminists, LGBTQIA communities, Rohingya and immigrants across the four contexts is highlighted, stressing the need for an equally systematic political response. This is an insightful text for scholars and academics in the fields of Cultural Studies, Community Psychology, Education, Journalism, Media and Communication Studies, Political Science, Social Anthropology, Social Psychology, and Sociology.

Author : Jane Griffith
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1487513615
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Words Have a Past written by Jane Griffith and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2019-04-08 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For nearly 100 years, Indian boarding schools in Canada and the US produced newspapers read by white settlers, government officials, and Indigenous parents. These newspapers were used as a settler colonial tool, yet within these tightly controlled narratives there also existed sites of resistance. This book traces colonial narratives of language, time, and place from the nineteenth-century to the present day, post-Truth and Reconciliation Commission.

Author : Felix Lösing
Publisher : transcript Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3839454980
Total Pages : 397 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A ›Crisis of Whiteness‹ in the ›Heart of Darkness‹ written by Felix Lösing and published by transcript Verlag. This book was released on 2021-01-31 with total page 397 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The British and American Congo Reform Movement (ca. 1890-1913) has been praised extensively for its ›heroic‹ confrontation of colonial atrocities in the Congo Free State. Its commitment to white supremacy and colonial domination, however, continues to be overlooked, denied, or trivialised. This historical-sociological study argues that racism was the ideological cornerstone and formed the main agenda of this first major human rights campaign of the 20th century. Through a thorough analysis of contemporary sources, Felix Lösing unmasks the colonial and racist formation of the modern human rights discourse and investigates the ›historical work‹ of racism at a crossroads between imperial power and ›white crisis‹.

Author : Karen Fields
Publisher : Verso Books
ISBN 13 : 1844679942
Total Pages : 311 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Racecraft: The Soul of Inequality in American Life written by Karen Fields and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2012-10-09 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No Marketing Blurb

Author : Matthew Craven
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 110849918X
Total Pages : 615 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book International Law and the Cold War written by Matthew Craven and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020 with total page 615 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first book to examine in detail the relationship between the Cold War and International Law.

Author : Panikos Panayi
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781526119346
Total Pages : 286 pages
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Download or read book The Germans in India written by Panikos Panayi and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on years of research in libraries and archives in England, Germany, India and Switzerland, this book offers a new interpretation of global migration from the early nineteenth until the early twentieth century. Rather than focusing upon the mass transatlantic migration or the movement of Britons towards British colonies, it examines the elite German migrants who progressed to India, especially missionaries, scholars and scientists, businessmen and travellers. The story told here questions, for the first time, the concept of Europeans in India. Previous scholarship has ignored any national variations in the presence of white people in India, viewing them either as part of a ruling elite or, more recently, white subalterns. The German elites undermine these conceptions. They developed into distinct groups before 1914, especially in the missionary compound, but faced marginalisation and expulsion during the First World War.

Author : Paul Cobley
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110240459
Total Pages : 452 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Theories and Models of Communication written by Paul Cobley and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2013-01-30 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This unique volume offers an overview of the diversity in research on communication, including perspectives from biology, sociality, economics, norms and human development. It includes general social science and humanities approaches to communication, from systems theory to cultural theory, as well as perspectives more specifically related to communication acts, such as linguistics and cognition. The volume also features chapters on the participants and various elements in communication processes, on possible effects and on wider consequences of mediation (with technical media). The scope of the contributions is global, and the volume is relevant to both the empirical and the philosophical traditions in human sciences. Designed as a stand-alone collection to engage undergraduates as well as postgraduates and academics, this is also the first book in, and an introduction to, the De Gruyter Mouton multi-volume Handbooks of Communication Science.