Post-Truth Era as a Global Media Phenomenon. What Does It Mean, What Are Its Consequences, and Where Has the Global Crisis of Trust Originated?
Post-Truth Era as a Global Media Phenomenon. What Does It Mean, What Are Its Consequences, and Where Has the Global Crisis of Trust Originated?

Summary/Abstract: The objective of the paper “Post-Truth Era as a Global Media Phenomenon” is to provide the reader with a brief, but comprehensive, account of historical development of media and political events that have significantly influenced this phenomenon to become what many authors know and define today, as from the establishment of this term in 1992 up to 2016, when the Oxford Dictionaries declared it the word of the year and it became a global “trend”. The study also gives an insight into definitions of this term and terms closely connected to it – disinformation and manipulation – from the point of view of several authors and offers supporting arguments in a form of statistical data clearly indicating the seriousness of this problem linked with global crisis of trust in media, governments, institutions, and, last but not least – to the overall system of democracies.

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