The Art of Truth in the Social Media Age

Abstract:

In the age of social media, claims to truth often go viral irrespective of evidence and are streamed into universities with varying, unpredictable effects. Thinking of truth as art, a notion raised by Friedrich Nietzsche, can illuminate the paradoxical ways truth is deployed amid increased digitization. Ours is an era in which truth is destabilized and negated through the increased proliferation of masks and at the same time opened up to alternate perspectives.

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