Reality Bites
Fake news, alternative facts, post truth—terms all too familiar to anyone in U.S. political culture and concepts at the core of Dana L. Cloud’s new book, Reality Bites, which explores truth claims in contemporary political rhetoric in the face of widespread skepticism regarding the utility, ethics,...
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The Ohio State University Press
2022
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| description | Fake news, alternative facts, post truth—terms all too familiar to anyone in U.S. political culture and concepts at the core of Dana L. Cloud’s new book, Reality Bites, which explores truth claims in contemporary political rhetoric in the face of widespread skepticism regarding the utility, ethics, and viability of an empirical standard for political truths. Cloud observes how appeals to truth often assume—mistakenly—that it is a matter of simple representation of facts. However, since neither fact-checking nor “truthiness” can respond meaningfully to this problem, she argues for a rhetorical realism—the idea that communicators can bring knowledge from particular perspectives and experiences into the domain of common sense.
Through a series of case studies—including the PolitiFact fact-checking project, the Planned Parenthood “selling baby parts” scandal, the Chelsea Manning and Edward Snowden cases, Neil DeGrasse Tyson’s Cosmos, the rhetoric of Thomas Paine and the American Revolution, and the Black Lives Matter movement—Cloud advocates for the usefulness of narrative, myth, embodiment, affect, and spectacle in creating accountability in contemporary U.S. political rhetoric. If dominant reality “bites”—in being oppressive and exploitative—it is time, Cloud argues, for those in the reality-based community to “bite back.” |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-795502025-07-31T07:45:17Z Reality Bites Cloud, Dana L. Language Arts & Disciplines Rhetoric Language Arts & Disciplines Communication Studies Language Arts & Disciplines thema EDItEUR::C Language and Linguistics::CF Linguistics::CFG Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics thema EDItEUR::G Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary subjects::GT Interdisciplinary studies::GTC Communication studies thema EDItEUR::C Language and Linguistics::CB Language: reference and general Fake news, alternative facts, post truth—terms all too familiar to anyone in U.S. political culture and concepts at the core of Dana L. Cloud’s new book, Reality Bites, which explores truth claims in contemporary political rhetoric in the face of widespread skepticism regarding the utility, ethics, and viability of an empirical standard for political truths. Cloud observes how appeals to truth often assume—mistakenly—that it is a matter of simple representation of facts. However, since neither fact-checking nor “truthiness” can respond meaningfully to this problem, she argues for a rhetorical realism—the idea that communicators can bring knowledge from particular perspectives and experiences into the domain of common sense. Through a series of case studies—including the PolitiFact fact-checking project, the Planned Parenthood “selling baby parts” scandal, the Chelsea Manning and Edward Snowden cases, Neil DeGrasse Tyson’s Cosmos, the rhetoric of Thomas Paine and the American Revolution, and the Black Lives Matter movement—Cloud advocates for the usefulness of narrative, myth, embodiment, affect, and spectacle in creating accountability in contemporary U.S. political rhetoric. If dominant reality “bites”—in being oppressive and exploitative—it is time, Cloud argues, for those in the reality-based community to “bite back.” 2022-03-20T04:02:28Z 2022-03-20T04:02:28Z 2022-03-19T05:34:24Z 2018 book OCN: 1022791281 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/53508 9780814213612 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/79550 eng open access image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/53508/1/external_content.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/53508/1/external_content.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/53508/1/external_content.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/53508/1/external_content.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/53508/1/external_content.pdf The Ohio State University Press The Ohio State University Press https://doi.org/10.26818/9780814213612 https://doi.org/10.26818/9780814213612 0be81b81-0c6f-4eac-8221-5b088f957a51 Knowledge Unlatched 9780814213612 Knowledge Unlatched (KU) KU Select 2022: HSS Backlist Books The Ohio State University Press open access |
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