Knowledge, Public Communication and “Post-Truthâ€: What is Left of Truth in a Time of Pandemic?

Aurel Codoban () and Alexandru Cordos ()
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Aurel Codoban: Professor PhD, University of Art and Design of Cluj-Napoca, "Dimitrie Cantemir" Cristian University Bucarest, and Philosophy Doctoral School at "Babes-Bolyai" University, Romania
Alexandru Cordos: Professor PhD University Lecturer, "Dimitrie Cantemir" Cristian University Bucharest, Romania

Postmodern Openings, 2021, vol. 12, issue 1Sup1, 164-181

Abstract: The pandemic seems to have reversed the relationship between Knowledge and Communication: communication prevails and determines the significance and meaning of events, just as it happened in premodern times. Public knowledge is being eroded. Post-modern scientific knowledge, already unfathomably complex and technical, is both evolving and becoming obsolete at such great speed that it unveils, paradoxically, the vulnerability and relativity of the truth it claims to grasp. Alongside truth-correspondence and truth-coherence, the older truth-significance also makes itself known. Amplified by the resonance chamber of new media and social networks, the latter can emerge as the “post-truth†and “fake-news†that transform Public Communication into Public Relations.

Keywords: Pandemic; Public Knowledge; Public Communication; Public Relations; Truth-Correspondence; Truth-Coherence; Truth-Significance; “New New Mediaâ€; social media; “post-truthâ€; “fake-news†(search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: H0 I2 O0 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.18662/po/12.1Sup1/277

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