Some semi-random thoughts, as headlines continue to focus on “post-factual” news: There is a lot in common between what we’re seeing now in Britain and the US, and  researchable “news” in fragile and conflict affected states. The recent Brexit referendum and US Presidential campaigns are just the two, latest and possibly most prominent cases that come to mind wherein the tone and content of open media forces a radical rethink of how researchers can use it. Fact-free politicians (and their […]

Categories: Practice Notes • Tags: guerrilla vernacular presses, post-fact, post-factual news, Stephen D.K. Ellis, the social construction of reality