Catherine Happer has sought to use her understanding of the sociology of the media to explore the post-truth narrative ever since it emerged. In this wide-ranging conversation, we discuss the role of journalism and academia in driving the narrative, the issue of public trust in the media, modes of media engagement, and much more.

Highlights

• Public trust, journalism and the emergence of the post-truth story
• Possible reasons for the uncritical adoption of the notion
• Modes of media engagement, role of elites
• Social media: past, present and future
• Dangers of universalizing the US experience

Links

See my article in The Philosophical Salon for links to many of the sources discussed in the episode.  

The post-truth crisis of mainstream media (Catherine Happer, Research in Sociology, University of Glasgow)