Trump and circumstance: introducing the post-truth claim as an instrument for investigating truth contestation in public discourse
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216224%3A14560%2F23%3A00133997" target="_blank" >RIV/00216224:14560/23:00133997 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1369118X.2021.2020322" target="_blank" >https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1369118X.2021.2020322</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1369118X.2021.2020322" target="_blank" >10.1080/1369118X.2021.2020322</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Trump and circumstance: introducing the post-truth claim as an instrument for investigating truth contestation in public discourse
Original language description
The idea of post-factual politics has become increasingly relevant for describing current political and societal developments. Though research on the topic has been blooming, we lack a common framework and systematic tool to map and analyze post-truth communication. Therefore, our paper advances the adaptation of claims-making for the analysis of how actors relativize the truth and use discourses of untruthfulness to attack their opponents, constructing their own versions of reality. We extend the affinity between populism and post-truth to conceptualize truth contestation in two aspects: (1) the antagonistic anti-elite constructions of accusations of creating and spreading false information and lies, (2) the emphasis on emotionality and negativity over facts and expertise. Building on a communication-centered approach to populism, we define key content and stylistic characteristics of post-truth claims to study the contestation of truth in political communication in a systematic way. Taking the Twitter communication of Donald Trump as a prime example, we illustrate the employability of our approach via a pilot study on the longest period of shutdown in US history (22 December 2018–25 January 2019). As a result, we introduce claims analysis as an approach that can be usefully adapted to study post-truth discourses.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
50601 - Political science
Result continuities
Project
<a href="/en/project/GJ19-14575Y" target="_blank" >GJ19-14575Y: Contestation of truth: Public discourses on migration in Central Europe in the post-truth era</a><br>
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)
Others
Publication year
2023
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Information, Communication & Society
ISSN
1369-118X
e-ISSN
1468-4462
Volume of the periodical
26
Issue of the periodical within the volume
8
Country of publishing house
GB - UNITED KINGDOM
Number of pages
18
Pages from-to
1583-1600
UT code for WoS article
000734790000001
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85121866976