The Politics of Misinformation Communication Society and Politics 1st Edition by Murray Edelman ISBN 0521805104 9780521805100

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ISBN 10: 0521805104

ISBN 13: 9780521805100 

Author: Murray Edelman

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.

• A pessimistic, disturbing, and even frightening view of the events and people we encounter in everyday life
• An account of the misunderstanding and error in popular discourse
• A critical and skeptical expose of power in political communications

Table of contents:

1. Images
2. Social change
3. Authority
4. Public opinion
5. Institutions
6. Language
7. Science
8. Crime as an example.

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