Reality in Our Times : Reaching Reality Beyond the Post-Truth Condition.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Holand, Astrid Marie.

Series:

Nord Studies in Reality Formations Series

Nord Studies in Reality Formations Series ; v.2

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (402 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

LaVergne : De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2026.

Basel/Berlin/Boston : Walter de Gruyter GmbH, 2026.

Summary:

The series Nord Studies in Reality Formations is Nord University's official outlet of transdisciplinary research. Each volume addresses understandings of reality in our time and what the societal implications could be, discussed from various perspectives.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

1 Reality/Relativity in Our Times: An Introduction

(Re)constructing On- and Offline Reality

Inventing/Constructing Historical Reality

Making Sense of Reality When Your World Is at Stake

The Philosophy of Reality Construction

Concluding Remarks

Works Cited

Part I: (Re)constructing On- and Offline Reality

2 The Post-Truth Condition and Social Media Logics. On the Destabilisation of Epistemic Authorities in the Age of Post-Truth

Introduction - The Post-Truth Condition

Social Media Logics / The Attention Economy

Digitalisation and Social Media - How Journalism Was Changed in Denmark

From Public Spheres to Regimes of (Post)truth

Capitalism and Regimes of Post-Truth

Discussion of How We Can Problematise the Crisis of Truth

3 From Context Collapse to Context Design: How Social Media Users Shape Online Social Realities

Introduction

Contexts in Social Reality

Self-Presentation and Context Negotiation on Social Media

Methodology

Conceptualising Online Contexts

Navigating Contextual Boundaries

Curation as Context (Co)-Construction

Discussion and Conclusion

4 Resonant Realities? Children of Journalists' Experience with Their Parents' Profession in the Off- andOnline Sphere

The Night the Plexi Glass Broke - Introducing the Concept of a Journalistic Childhood

Key Concepts

Reality

Resonance

Symbolic Resources

Journalism in the Intersection of Local, Digital Professional and Personal

Sense and Sensibility

Personal and Professional

Local and Digital

Some Comments on the Methodology

The Home Sphere, the Community and the Digital Community

Journalism and the Home Sphere

Where Everybody Knows Your Name - Journalism, Childhood and the Local Community

Dealing with the Digital Community.

Symbolic Resource 1: A Critical Attitude

Symbolic Resource 2: Understanding Criticism as Part of the Job

Symbolic Resource 3: Empathy

Resources and Resonance in Digital Local Communities

The Use of Symbolic Resources

Symbolic Resources in Other Contexts

Resonance in the Digital Local Community

5 How Conspiracy Theories Shape Reality-Formation in the Age of Polycrisis

What is a Conspiracy Theory?

Conspiracy Theories and Reality

Reasons for Believing in Conspiracy Theories

Why are Conspiracy Theories Dangerous?

How Widespread are Conspiracy Theories Actually?

What to Do and the Way Ahead

Webpages

Part II: Inventing/Constructing Historical Reality

6 The Obscurity of Origins in Reality Formation: Slender Man and Digital Mythology

Introduction: Anti-Scientist, Not Anti-Science

Myth

The Obscurity of Origins

Obscurity

Digital Obscurity, Digital Origins

Digital Mythmaking: The Case of Slender Man

Ephemera and the Simultaneous Permanence and Fragility of the Digital Archive

Pseudonymity and Anonymity

Heterogeneous Sites of Authority Online

Conclusions and Directions: Obscure Origins in Digital Mythmaking

7 Patterns of Past Urbanity: The Significance of Small-Scale Changes of Practices for Social Organisation in Medieval Trondheim

Reality Formation and Urbanity in Archaeology

The Emerging Town as a Hierarchical Phenomenon

The Emerging Town as a Network Phenomenon

Organizational Practices and Self-Organizing Human Reality

Urbanity as Self-Organizing Movement of Performative Social Practices

Fossilised Performativity

The Emerging Town of Nidaros as Communication

An Example of Changed Organisation: Space and Borders in Kaupmannastretet.

Social Objects and Identity: Generalizations and Particularizations

Group Identity and Power

Power, Authority and Hierarchy

Moral and Ethics as Communicative Action

Cult Values and Their Functionalization

Meaning, Emotions and Spectacular Symbols

Conclusion

8 Hostile Aliens or Brothers in Arms? Constructions of Aristocratic Foreignness in Medieval Scandinavia

Introduction: Society, Mobility and Aristocracy

Concepts, Sources, and Methodological Approaches

Foreign Aristocrats in Narrative Sources

Laws, Regulations, and Diplomas: Normative Sources

Constructing Realities: Foreign Aristocrats as a Narrative Device

Primary Sources

9 The House Before the Dark Set in. Norwegian Writers' Constructions of Reality in Five Novels, 1930-1940

(A Strong) Sociology of Literature

On (Culture in) the 1930s in Europe

The Study

A Shattered Society, With Bleak Future? Where Have All the Culture Wars Gone?

The Construction of Reality in the Novels

The Landscapes of Meaning Constructed in the Novels

Part III: Making Sense of Reality when Your World is at Stake

10 Victims of Feminism: Perceptions of Oppression Among Men's Rights Activists on Reddit

The Men's Rights Movement from the 1970s to the Digital Era

What Is r/MensRights?

Method

Ethical Considerations

Overview of Topics on r/MensRights: What Do MRAs Talk About?

Thematic Analysis: Why Is Feminism So Bad?

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1) Feminism Is Built on a False Premise

2) Feminism Is Not About Gender Equality

3) Feminism Perpetuates an Empathy Gap Between Men and Women

Aggrieved Entitlement in Action

Works Cited.

11 Anti-Patriarchal Protest and Feminist Reality Formations: Mary Hunter Austin, Emma Goldman and the Creation of Retrospective Feminist Narratives

Biographical Examples

Mary Hunter Austin (1868-1934)

Emma Goldman (1869-1940)

"Reality is as Much a Construct as History": The Genesis of Post-Factual Feminist Identity

12 Post-War Norwegian Regional Policies: A Brief History of Colliding Political Visions and Economic-Geographical Realities

A Brief Contextual History

Reconstructing the Reconstruction

Political Processes Undermining the Local Traditional Knowledge and Lifestyle

Central Characteristics of the Development of Regional Policies and Socioeconomic Development in Norway in an International Perspective

Globalising the Local Community

What's Happening in Northern Norway?

Tracing Brox' Thoughts in the Fate of the Local Communities

The Legacy and the Future of Local Communities in the North

13 Norwegian Military Leaders and the Russo‐Ukrainian War. Perceptions and Assessments during the Initial Phase of the 2022 Invasion

The Relevance of Perceptions of Wars

Norway as a Member of NATO

Norway-Russia Relations

Methods

Data and Analysis

Perceptions of the War and the Warring Parties: The Stakes Are High

Perceptions of Consequences of the War and Prospects for the Future

Part IV: The Philosophy of Reality Construction

14 Reconstructing Reality Construction

Constructing What?

Concepts and Objects

Worlds and Versions

Conception and Perception

What and How

Reconstructing Reality in Our Times

15 History, Memory, and Reality in a Post-Truth World

Memory

History

The Past.

History, Memory and Reality in a Post-Truth World

16 The Reality of the Past - and of the Present

17 The Past is in the Past: Some Further Thoughts on History

List of Contributors

Index.

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ISBN:

3-11-170397-5

3-11-170388-6

OCLC:

1581075127