03222nam a22004575i 4500001001800000003000900018005001700027007001500044008004100059020001800100024003500118050001300153072001600166072002300182072001500205100007500220245012000295250001800415264007900433300003500512336002600547337002600573338003600599347002400635505040200659520126001061650001802321650004902339650003302388650002302421650001802444650003302462650002402495650003102519710003402550773002602584776003602610776003602646776003602682856004602718978-3-031-56180-1DE-He21320251030112003.0cr nn 008mamaa240422s2024    sz |    s    |||| 0|eng d  a97830315618017 a10.1007/978-3-031-56180-12doi 4aPN98.E36 7aDSA2bicssc 7aLIT0060002bisacsh 7aDSA2thema1 aMoser, Keith.eauthor.4aut4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut10aFake News in Contemporary Science and Politicsh[electronic resource] :bA Requiem for the Real? /cby Keith Moser.  a1st ed. 2024. 1aCham :bSpringer Nature Switzerland :bImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,c2024.  aXVII, 201 p.bonline resource.  atextbtxt2rdacontent  acomputerbc2rdamedia  aonline resourcebcr2rdacarrier  atext filebPDF2rda0 a1. Introduction -- 2. Climate Change Denial: An Ecocidal, Parallel Universe of Simulation -- 3. COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy: The Ongoing, Hyperreal Saga of a Deadly Epidemic and Infodemic -- 4. Alternative Facts Trump Reality: The Spectacular Anatomy of an Insurrection -- 5. The Baudrillardian “Discourse of the Good:” Putin’s False Flag Operation to Denazify Ukraine -- 6. Conclusions. .  aThis transdisciplinary book investigates the profound repercussions of living in a post-truth world in which “alternative facts” and post-truth knowledge claims, often bordering on the absurd, have replaced the real in the collective imagination of millions of people around the planet. Through discussions on climate change denial, the anti-vaccination movement, the January 6th Insurrection and the Russia-Ukraine War, this study explores the gravity of the current 'infodemic,' or the increasing inability of a large segment of the population to distinguish between reality and misrepresentation, and the destabilizing impact this infodemic has on democratic models of governance around the globe, coinciding with the rise of autocratic forms of populism. Keith Moser is Professor of French and Francophone Studies at Mississippi State University. He has more than one-hundred major publications including nine books and eighty-five articles. Moser’s research examines many issues linked to social-ecological justice, including Environmental Ethics (Environmental Philosophy, Philosophy of Science, Ecocriticism, Ecolinguistics, and Biosemiotics) and postmodern French thought as it relates to literature, Popular Culture, and society in general. 0aEcocriticism. 0aCommunication in the environmental sciences. 0aMedicine and the humanities. 0aPolitical science.14aEcocriticism.24aEnvironmental Communication.24aMedical Humanities.24aGovernance and Government.2 aSpringerLink (Online service)0 tSpringer Nature eBook08iPrinted edition:z978303156179508iPrinted edition:z978303156181808iPrinted edition:z978303156182540uhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-56180-1