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SUMMARY:Do we live in a post-truth era? - Kristoffer Ahlstrom-Vij (Birkbec
 k\, University of London)
DTSTART:20201119T153000Z
DTEND:20201119T170000Z
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CONTACT:Anna Alexandrova
DESCRIPTION:Have we entered a 'post-truth' era? The present paper attempts
  to answer this question by (a) offering an explication of the notion of '
 post-truth' drawn from recent discussions\; (b) deriving a testable implic
 ation from that explication\, to the effect that we should expect to see d
 ecreasing information effects – i.e. differences between actual preferen
 ces and estimated\, fully informed preferences – on central political is
 sues over time\; and then (c.) putting the relevant narrative to the test 
 by way of counterfactual modelling\, using election year data for the peri
 od of 2004–2016 from the American National Election Studies' (ANES) Time
 s Series Study. The implication in question turns out to be consistent wit
 h the data: at least in a US context\, we do see evidence of a decrease in
  information effects on key\, political issues – immigration\, same-sex 
 adoption and gun laws\, in particular – in the period 2004 to 2016. This
  offers some novel\, empirical evidence for the 'post-truth' narrative.
LOCATION:Zoom
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