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Author: Kiboyye Okoth-Yogo Publisher: Grin Publishing ISBN: 9783668595644 Category : Languages : en Pages : 24
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Essay from the year 2017 in the subject Communications - Media History, grade: College, Moi University (Peace Institute), course: Communications-Media History, language: English, abstract: Politics the world over, and probably in all history, has always fed on incessant lies and half truths. However, the proliferation of the mass "media media-social media" convergence has engendered an explosive and domineering twist. This falls into what some thinkers now refer to as the "post-truth" era, revealing an historical angle to the pertinent subject matter. According to the Oxford dictionary "Post-truth" denote "circumstances in which objective facts are less influential in shaping public opinion than appeals to emotion and personal belief." It is herein acknowledged that even though post-truth concept got its initial impetus from the US' Nixonian Watergate scandal of the early 1970s, it climaxed during the 2016 Trump and Brexit campaigns, and now its synthesis blooms globally. The objective of the paper is to put the idea of post-truth into Kenyan perspective, construing the media-politics nexus there from. To achieve this, a history of colonial and post colonial systems of lies- "political-metamendacity matrix" PMM) is traced. It is established that the current wave of political lies in Kenya is a product of the very foundations of the state edifice, not only exacerbated by contemporary information implosion but also the myriad digital opportunities. The paper brings Kenya into the ongoing global conversation on the existence, meaning and ramification of the "post-truth."
Author: Kiboyye Okoth-Yogo Publisher: Grin Publishing ISBN: 9783668595644 Category : Languages : en Pages : 24
Book Description
Essay from the year 2017 in the subject Communications - Media History, grade: College, Moi University (Peace Institute), course: Communications-Media History, language: English, abstract: Politics the world over, and probably in all history, has always fed on incessant lies and half truths. However, the proliferation of the mass "media media-social media" convergence has engendered an explosive and domineering twist. This falls into what some thinkers now refer to as the "post-truth" era, revealing an historical angle to the pertinent subject matter. According to the Oxford dictionary "Post-truth" denote "circumstances in which objective facts are less influential in shaping public opinion than appeals to emotion and personal belief." It is herein acknowledged that even though post-truth concept got its initial impetus from the US' Nixonian Watergate scandal of the early 1970s, it climaxed during the 2016 Trump and Brexit campaigns, and now its synthesis blooms globally. The objective of the paper is to put the idea of post-truth into Kenyan perspective, construing the media-politics nexus there from. To achieve this, a history of colonial and post colonial systems of lies- "political-metamendacity matrix" PMM) is traced. It is established that the current wave of political lies in Kenya is a product of the very foundations of the state edifice, not only exacerbated by contemporary information implosion but also the myriad digital opportunities. The paper brings Kenya into the ongoing global conversation on the existence, meaning and ramification of the "post-truth."
Author: Kiboyye Okoth-Yogo Publisher: GRIN Verlag ISBN: 3668595631 Category : Performing Arts Languages : en Pages : 24
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Essay from the year 2017 in the subject Communications - Media History, grade: College, Moi University (Peace Institute), course: Communications-Media History, language: English, abstract: Politics the world over, and probably in all history, has always fed on incessant lies and half truths. However, the proliferation of the mass “media media-social media” convergence has engendered an explosive and domineering twist. This falls into what some thinkers now refer to as the “post-truth” era, revealing an historical angle to the pertinent subject matter. According to the Oxford dictionary “Post-truth” denote “circumstances in which objective facts are less influential in shaping public opinion than appeals to emotion and personal belief.” It is herein acknowledged that even though post-truth concept got its initial impetus from the US’ Nixonian Watergate scandal of the early 1970s, it climaxed during the 2016 Trump and Brexit campaigns, and now its synthesis blooms globally. The objective of the paper is to put the idea of post-truth into Kenyan perspective, construing the media-politics nexus there from. To achieve this, a history of colonial and post colonial systems of lies- “political-metamendacity matrix” PMM) is traced. It is established that the current wave of political lies in Kenya is a product of the very foundations of the state edifice, not only exacerbated by contemporary information implosion but also the myriad digital opportunities. The paper brings Kenya into the ongoing global conversation on the existence, meaning and ramification of the “post-truth.”
Author: Tony Judt Publisher: Penguin ISBN: 9780143037750 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 1000
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Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize • Winner of the Council on Foreign Relations Arthur Ross Book Award • One of the New York Times' Ten Best Books of the Year “Impressive . . . Mr. Judt writes with enormous authority.” —The Wall Street Journal “Magisterial . . . It is, without a doubt, the most comprehensive, authoritative, and yes, readable postwar history.” —The Boston Globe Almost a decade in the making, this much-anticipated grand history of postwar Europe from one of the world's most esteemed historians and intellectuals is a singular achievement. Postwar is the first modern history that covers all of Europe, both east and west, drawing on research in six languages to sweep readers through thirty-four nations and sixty years of political and cultural change-all in one integrated, enthralling narrative. Both intellectually ambitious and compelling to read, thrilling in its scope and delightful in its small details, Postwar is a rare joy. Judt's book, Ill Fares the Land, republished in 2021 featuring a new preface by bestselling author of Between the World and Me and The Water Dancer, Ta-Nehisi Coates.
Author: Olivier Moréteau Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing ISBN: 1781955220 Category : Law Languages : en Pages : 513
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The specially commissioned papers in this book lay a solid theoretical foundation for comparative legal history as a distinct academic discipline. While facilitating a much needed dialogue between comparatists and legal historians, this research handbook examines methodologies in this emerging field and reconsiders legal concepts and institutions like custom, civil procedure, and codification from a comparative legal history perspective.
Author: Magdalena Barbaruk Publisher: Interdisciplinary Studies in Performance ISBN: 9783631666531 Category : Don Quixote (Fictitious character) Languages : en Pages : 0
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The book argues that Don Quixote and Quixotism are relevant to cultural studies. Changing interpretations of Don Quixote reveal cultural dynamics, and Quixotism is value-loaded. The soaring humanistic interest in Don Quixote stems from the experience of 20th-century totalitarianisms. Quixotism's pivotal facets are now bibliomania and evil.
Author: Shashi Tharoor Publisher: Aleph Book Company ISBN: 9789383064656 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 0
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A few years later, the young and weakened Mughal emperor, Shah Alam II, was browbeaten into issuing an edict that replaced his own revenue officials with the Company s representatives. Over the next several decades, the East India Company, backed by the British government, extended its control over most of India
Author: Jack Mapanje Publisher: Heinemann ISBN: 9780435912116 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 358
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This anthology introduces the African literature of incarceration to the general reader, the scholar, the activist and the student. The visions and prison cries of the few African nationalists imprisoned by colonialists, who later became leaders of their independent dictatorships and in turn imprisoned their own writers and other radicals, are brought into sharper focus, thereby critically exposing the ironies of varied generations of the efforts of freedom fighters. Extracts of prose, poetry and plays are grouped into themes such as arrest, interrogation, torture, survival, release and truth and reconciliation. Contributors include: Kunle Ajibade, Obafemi Awolowo, Steve Biko, Breyten Breytenbach, Dennis Brutus, Nawal El Saadawi, M J Kariuki, Kenneth Kaunda, Caesarina Kona Makhoere, Nelson Mandela, Emma Mashinini, Felix Mnthali, Augustino Nato, Ngugi wa Thiong'o, Kwame Nkrumah, Abe Sachs, Ken Saro Wiwa, Wole Soyinka, and Koigi wa Wamwere. Although an often harrowing indictment of the history, culture and politics of the African continent and the societies from which this literature comes, the anthology presents excellent prose, poetry and drama, which stands up in its own right as serious literature to be cherished, read and studied.
Author: Kiboyye Okoth-Yogo
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Author: Tony Judt
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