media politics

1 Pykewater Library W. D. S. Pennington Media Politics Fake News Politics of “Facts”/“Truth” Abramson, Jill. Merchants of Truth: The Business of News and the Fight for Facts. New York, NY: Simon and Schuster, 2019.

Adams, Scott. Win Bigly: Persuasion in a World Where Facts Don’t Matter. New York, NY: Portfolio/Penguin, 2017.

Andersen, Kurt. Fantasyland: How America Went Haywire (A 500-Year History). New York, NY: Random House, 2017.

Aspray, William and Barbara M. Hayes, Eds. Everyday Information: The Evolution of Information Seeking in America. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2011.

Bartlett, Bruce. The Truth Matters: A Citizen’s Guide to Separating Facts from Lies and Stopping Fake News in its Tracks. New York, NY: Ten Speed Press, 2017.

Bomey, Nathan. After the Fact: The Erosion of Truth and the Inevitable Rise of Donald Trump.

Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books, 2018.

Byrne, Ruth M. J. The Rational Imagination: How People Create Alternatives to Reality.

Cambridge, MA: Bradford Books/The MIT Press, 2005.

Callaway, Kutter and Dean Batali. Watching TV Religiously: Television and Theology in Dialogue.

Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic, 2016.

Cannel, Ward and June Macklin. The Human Nature Industry: How Human Nature is Manufactured, Distributed, Advertised, and Consumed in the United States and Parts of Canada. Garden City, New York: Anchor Press, 1973.

Cloud, Dana L. Reality Bites: Rhetoric and the Circulation of Truth Claims in U.S. Political Culture. Athens, OH: Ohio State University Press, 2018.

DiMaggio, Anthony R. The Politics of Persuasion: Economic Policy and Media Bias in the Modern Era. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 2017.

Drezner, Daniel W. The Ideas Industry: How Pessimists, Partisans, and Plutocrats are Transforming the Marketplace of Ideas. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2017.

Eberhardt, Jennifer L. Biased: Uncovering the Hidden Prejudice that Shapes What We See, Think, and Do. New York, NY: Viking, 2019.

Edelman, Murray. The Politics of Misinformation. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2001.

Ellul, Jacques. The Technological Society: A Penetrating Analysis of Our Technical Civilization and of the Effect of an Increasingly Standardized Culture on the Future of Man. Ed. Robert K. Merton. New York, NY: Vintage, 1964.

Epstein, Edward Jay. Inquest: The Warren Commission and the Establishment of Truth. New York, NY: Viking Press, 1966.

2 Frankfurt, Harry G. On Bullshit. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2005.

Frankfurt, Harry G. On Truth. New York, NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 2006.

Fuller, Steve. Post-Truth: Knowledge as a Power Game. New York, NY: Anthem Press, 2018.

Graves, Lucas. Deciding What’s True: The Rise of Political Fact-Checking in American Journalism. New York, NY: Columbia University Press, 2016.

Hemmer, Nicole. Messengers of the Right: Conservative Media and the Transformation of American Politics. Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016.

Herman, Edward S. and Noam Chomsky. Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media. New York, NY: Pantheon Books, 2002.

Hochshild, Jennifer L. and Katherine Levine Einstein. Do Facts Matter?: Information and Misinformation in American Politics. Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 2015.

Hofstadter, Richard. Anti-Intellectualism in American Life. New York, NY: Vintage Books, 1963.

Huff, Darrell. How to Lie with Statistics. New York, NY: W. W. Norton, 1993.

Inc., CQ-Roll Call. Truth Counts: A Practical Guide for News Consumers. Washington, DC: CQRoll Call, Inc., 2018.

Kakutani, Michiko. The Death of Truth: Notes on Falsehood in the Age of Trump. New York, NY: Tim Duggan Books, 2018.

Kalb, Marvin. Enemy of the People: Trump’s War on the Press, the New McCarthyism, and the Threat to American Democracy. Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press, 2018.

Klein, Ezra. Why We’re Polarized. London, UK: Profile Books, 2020.

Klinenberg, Eric, Caitlin Zaloom, and Sharon Marcus, Eds. Antidemocracy in America: Truth, Power, and the Republic at Risk. New York, NY: Columbia University Press, 2019.

Kuran, Timur. Private Truths, Public Lies: The Social Consequences of Preference Falsification.

Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1997.

Lasch, Christopher. The Culture of Narcissism: American Life in an Age of Diminishing Expectations. New York, NY: W. W. Norton, 1991.

Levitin, Daniel J. A Field Guide to Lies: Critical Thinking in the Information Age. New York, NY: Dutton, 2016.

Lewis, Charles. 935 Lies: The Future of Truth and the Decline of America’s Moral Integrity.

New York, NY: PublicAffairs, 2014.

Lippmann, Walter. Public Opinion. Mineola, NY: Dover Publications, 2004.

Lippmann, Walter. The Phantom Public. New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers, 2009.

Lupia, Arthur. Uninformed: Why People Know so Little about Poltiics and What We Can do about It. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2016.

Lynch, Michael Patrick. The Internet of Us: Knowing More and Understanding Less in the Age of Big Data. New York, NY: Liveright Publishing, 2017.

MacLeod, Alan. Bad News from Venezuela: Twenty Years of Fake News and Misreporting. New York, NY: Routledge, 2018.

Mapes, Mary. Truth: The Press, the President, and the Privilege of Power. New York, NY: St. Martin’s Griffin, 2015.

Martin, Christopher R. No Longer Newsworthy: How the Mainstream Media Abandoned the

3 Working Class. Ithaca, NY: ILR Press/Cornell University Press, 2019.

Mason, Lilliana. Uncivil Agreement: How Politics Became Our Identity. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2018.

McIntyre, Lee. Post-Truth. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2018.

Mindlich, David T. Z. Just the Facts: How ‘Objectivity’ Came to Define American Journalism.

New York, NY: New York University Press, 1998.

Muirhead, Russell and Nancy L. Rosenblum. A Lot of People are Saying: The New Conspiracism and the Assault on Democracy. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2019.

Nagle, Angela. Kill All Normies: Online Culture Wars from 4Chan and Tumblr to Trump and the Alt-Right. Alresford, UK: Zero Books, 2017.

Nichols, Tom. The Death of Expertise: The Campaign against Established Knowledge and Why it Matters. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2017.

O’Connor, Cailin and James Owen Weatherall. The Misinformation Age: How False Beliefs Spread. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2019.

Peirce, Charles P. Idiot America: How Stupidity Became a Virtue in the Land of the Free. New York, NY: Anchor Books/Random House, 2010.

Phillips, Whitney. This Is Why We Can’t Have Nice Things: Mapping the Relationship Between Online Trolling and Mainstream Culture. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2015.

Postman, Neil. Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business (20th Anniversary Addition). New York, NY: Penguin Books, 2005.

Pomerantsev, Peter. Nothing is True and Everything is Possible: The Surreal Heart of the New Russia. New York, NY: PublicAffairs, 2015.

Pressman, Matthew. On Press: The Liberal Values that Shaped the News. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2018.

Rabin-Havt, Ari and Media Matters for America. Lies, Incorporated: The World of Post-Truth Politics. New York, NY: Anchor Books, 2016.

Revel, Jean-Francois. The Flight from Truth: The Reign of Deceit in the Age of Information.

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Curtis Cate. New York, NY: Random House, 1991.

Rich, Frank. The Greatest Story Ever Sold: The Decline and Fall of Truth, From 9/11 to Katrina.

New York, NY: Penguin Press, 2006.

Rivers, Caryl. Slick Spins and Fractured Facts: How Cultural Myths Distort the News. New York, NY: Columbia University Press, 1996.

Rosenfeld, Sam. The Polarizers: Postwar Architects of Our Partisan Era. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2018.

Rosenfeld, Susan. Democracy and Truth: A Short History. Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2019.

Runciman, David. How Democracy Ends. New York, NY: Basic Books, 2018.

Sandifer, Elizabeth. Neoreaction a Basilisk: Essays on and Around the Alt-Right. Middletown, DE: Eruditorum Press, 2017.

Scott, Laurence. The Four-Dimensional Human: Ways of Being in the Digital World. New York, NY: W. W. Norton, 2016.

4 Singer, P. W. and Emerson T. Brooking. Like War: The Weaponization of Social Media. New York, NY: Eamon Dolan/ Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2018.

Southwell, Brian G., Emily A. Thorson and Laura Sheble, Eds. Misinformation and Mass Audiences. Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 2018.

Taplin, Jonathan. Move Fast and Break Things: How Facebook, Google, and Amazon Cornered Cultured and Undermined Democracy. New York, NY: Little, Brown and Company, 2017.

Thompson, Mark: What’s Gone Wrong with the Language of Politics? New York, NY: St. Martin’s Press, 2016.

Tufekci, Zeynep. Twitter and Tear Gas: The Power and Fragility of Networked Protest. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2017.

Urbiniti, Nadia. Democracy Disfigured: Opinion, Truth, and the People. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2014.

Vattimo, Gianni. A Farewell to Truth. Trans. William McCuaig. New York, NY: Columbia University Press, 2014.

Watts, Clint. Messing with the Enemy: Surviving in a Social Media World of Hackers, Terrorists, Russians, and Fake News. New York, NY: HarperCollins, 2018.

Wilber, Ken. Trump and a Post-Truth World. Boulder, CO: Shambhala Publications, 2017.

Young, Kevin. Bunk: The Rise of Hoaxes, Humbug, Plagiarists, Phonies, Post-Facts, and Fake News. Minneapolis, MN: Graywolf Press, 2017.