[ecrea] Alternative Facts: Constructing Truth in Civil Societies

A Call for papers

Alternative Facts: Constructing Truth in Civil Societies

As the workings of civil society are being disrupted by the challenges 
of ‘alternative facts’, ‘fake news’ and notions of post-truth, 
Cosmopolitan Civil Societies Journal has decided to devote a special 
issue to this topic. Our approach is broad; the flow of information is 
fundamental to civil society and that flow and its interactions with the 
structures of society and the individuals in society takes many forms. 
The following list is by no means exhaustive:  Journalism (and fact 
checking); Cultural Studies and the World of Make-Believe; the 
scientific record and predatory publishing; climate change and climate 
deniers; Civic literacy and democracy; Public Relations and Spin; social 
media, experience and opinion; state strategy and astro-turfing; the new 
right and post-facts; dramaturgy of post-factoids …

We are calling for papers between 4,000 and 8,000 words which reflect in 
some way on the concepts of alternative facts/fake news/post truth 
either on our understandings of civil society or on professional 
practices within civil society.

 Our deadline for submission is Friday 31 March. Decisions on 
acceptance will be communicated by 28 April. The issue will be published 
in July 2017.

See the journal at:
http://epress.lib.uts.edu.au/journals/index.php/mcs

For more information please contact Hilary Yerby at: (Hilary.yerby /at/ uts.edu.au)



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