03622nam a22005415i 4500 978-3-031-56180-1 DE-He213 20251030112003.0 cr nn 008mamaa 240422s2024 sz | s |||| 0|eng d 9783031561801 978-3-031-56180-1 10.1007/978-3-031-56180-1 doi PN98.E36 DSA bicssc LIT006000 bisacsh DSA thema Moser, Keith. author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut 75503 Fake News in Contemporary Science and Politics [electronic resource] : A Requiem for the Real? / by Keith Moser. 1st ed. 2024. Cham : Springer Nature Switzerland : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2024. XVII, 201 p. online resource. text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda 1. 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. . This 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. Ecocriticism. 44023 Communication in the environmental sciences. 58177 Medicine and the humanities. 66324 Political science. 58714 Ecocriticism. 44023 Environmental Communication. 66985 Medical Humanities. 66327 Governance and Government. SpringerLink (Online service) Springer Nature eBook Printed edition: 9783031561795 Printed edition: 9783031561818 Printed edition: 9783031561825 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-56180-1 ZDB-2-LCM ZDB-2-SXL 59272 59272