The making sense of politics, media, and law rhetorical performance as invention, creation, production

From Trump's 'make America great again' to Johnson's 'build back better', performative politicians use The Making Sense to persuade their public audiences. Law 'makers' do it too: A courtroom trial is a 'truth factory' in which facts are not found bu...

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Other Authors: Watt, Gary, author (author)
Format: eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press 2023.
Edition:1st ed
Series:Law in context.
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Summary:From Trump's 'make America great again' to Johnson's 'build back better', performative politicians use The Making Sense to persuade their public audiences. Law 'makers' do it too: A courtroom trial is a 'truth factory' in which facts are not found but forged. The 'court of popular opinion' is another such factory, though its processes are often flawed and its products faulty. Where courts of law aim to make civil peace, 'trial by Twitter' makes civil strife. Even in 'mainstream' media, journalists make news for public consumption, so that all news is to an extent 'fake news'. In a world of making, how can we separate craft from craftiness? With insights from disciplines including law, politics, rhetoric, media studies, psychology, sociology, marketing, and performance studies, The Making Sense of Politics, Media, and Law offers a constructive way to approach controversies from transgender identity to cancel culture. This title is also available as open access on Cambridge Core.
Item Description:Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 06 Apr 2023).
Physical Description:1 online resource (303 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
ISBN:9781009336390
9781009336406
9781009336413
Access:Open Access.