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.

• 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

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.