New agencies of technologically mediated power

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Chapter 5 in Misinformation in the Digital Age, 2023, pp 76-91 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: Examining Climategate and economic fictions, this chapter highlights new agencies of power from dispersed centers of authority on the digital informational landscape. Instrumental modes of authority are being displaced by a more affective mode creating digital moral communities that value the sensational than facts. Examining climate change denial, it shows that religion, Fox News and YouTube have an adverse effect on global warming science. Time-space trade misinformation propagated by President Trump relies on conspiratorial story-telling and repetitions as relational rituals to cultivate community and to mark the boundary of identity.

Keywords: Economics and Finance; Geography; Politics and Public Policy Sociology and Social Policy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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