Social Media, Truth and the Care of the Self: On the Digital Technologies of the Subject

by Diana Stypinska

This book explores the relationship between (post)truth and subjectivity by focusing on social media as a site of digital subjectification. These days, truth is cheap. Anyone can claim it. Indeed, most do - impudently and without any recourse to facts or objective reality. Truth-claims today are nothing but power grabs, employed in the permanent popularity contest that our culture and politics have become. Correspondingly, our very sense of reality...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3031181077
• ISBN13: 9783031181078
• Release Date: November 2022
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 95 Pages
• Weight: 0.62 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.8" x 8.3"