Pedagogies of Post-Truth

David H. Kahl, Jr. is professor of communication at Penn State Erie, The Behrend College. Ahmet Atay is associate professor of communication at the College of Wooster.

Speaking truth to power, Kahl and Atay’s perfectly timed and much-needed edited collection comprehensively conceptualizes, compellingly critiques, and carefully considers how critical communication pedagogy can contribute to college students’ capacity to recognize and resist the contemporary post-truth context in which politicians, media personnel, and other parties seek to preserve power and further persecute oppressed populations, by purposefully promoting false/fake “facts” that prey on people who are persuaded by their emotions and beliefs rather than by factual truths.

• Table of ContentsIntroduction: David H. Kahl, Jr. & Ahmet AtaySection 1: Media, Post-Truth, and PedagogyChapter 1: Academic Freedom Under Threat: Teaching Against Trumpism in the Neoliberal University. Ann M. SavageChapter 2: Training Journalism Students in a Post-Truth Era. John Huxford & K. Megan HopperChapter 3: Challenging the Discourse of Post-Truth in Media Classes: Digital Media and Cultural Pedagogies. Ahmet AtaySection 2: Post-Truth and Critical Communication PedagogyChapter 4: Property, Postsocialism, and Critical Communication Pedagogy in the Post-Truth Era. Jennifer A. Zenovich & Leda CooksChapter 5: The Hegemony of Post-Truth: Responding through Critical Communication Pedagogy. David H. Kahl, Jr.Chapter 6: Be(ing) in “Post-truth”: Notes on Performing Contested Selves in/as Critical Communication Pedagogy. Simon RoussetChapter 7: Finding Truth in a “Post-Truth” World: Critical Communication Pedagogy as Transformative Learning. Chad Woolard & Joseph Zompet