By comparing current abuses of the truth with abuses from the past, this book will help you better understand how we got to where we now are, see how we can move beyond the post-truth era, and develop highly practical skills for separating truth from lies.
| Acknowledgments |
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| Preface |
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1 The Meaning of Truth in the Post-Truth Culture |
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2 The Science of the Mind and the Post-Truth Culture |
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3 Digital Utopias Lost: How the Conflicting Dreams from the Dawn of Cyberspace Diverged |
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59 | (22) |
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4 As We May Come to Think: How Technology Changes the Way We Think |
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5 Propaganda: The Good, the Bad, and the Persuasive |
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117 | (30) |
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6 Information Wants to Be Free---And Why It Is Not |
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7 Conspiracy Theories in the Post-Truth Culture |
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187 | (36) |
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8 The Powerful Influence of Popular Culture---Amplified by Digital Technology---On the Post-Truth Culture |
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223 | (34) |
| Index |
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257 | (26) |
| About the Author |
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Donald Barclay has worked as an academic librarian since 1990, holding positions at New Mexico State University, the University of Houston, the Texas Medical Center, and the University of California, Merced. He has been at UC Merced since 2002 and currently holds the position of Deputy University Librarian. He has authored numerous articles and books over the course of his career on topics ranging from the literature of the American West, to childrens literature, to library and information science. His most recent book, Fake News, Propaganda, and Plain Old Lies: How to Find Trustworthy Information in the Digital Age, was published by Roman Littlefield in June 2018.
He earned his bachelors degree from Boise State University and holds masters degrees in both English and Library and Information Science from the University of California, Berkeley. Prior to working as a librarian, he spent ten seasons working as a wildland fire fighter, most of that time as a member of a U.S. Forest Service Hotshot Crew.
