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The Critique of Pure Information: Disinformation, Misinformation, and Democratic Life

The Critique of Pure Information: Disinformation, Misinformation, and Democratic Life

Harsin, Jayson

Hardcover

Series: Routledge Studies in Media, Communication, and Politics

General ReferenceGeneral Sociology

PREORDER - Expected ship date November 24, 2026

ISBN10: 1032909994
ISBN13: 9781032909998
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Nov 24 2026
Pages: 208
Language: English

The Critique of Pure Information offers a critical rethinking of disinformation, misinformation, and post-truth politics by challenging the assumption that political deception is best understood as a problem of false or impure information.

This book argues that the dominant vocabulary of information disorder has helped install an infocentric model of communication, one that reduces deceptive public communication to faulty content, corrupted circulation, or deficient belief. Combining conceptual history, communication theory, systematic review, and close rhetorical analysis, the book shows how deception and confusion work through rhetoric, style, genre, image-text composition, platformed circulation, affect, and public uptake. Through an extended case study of a long-circulating Trump quotation meme, it demonstrates why democratic communication cannot be repaired by fact-checking, media literacy, platform governance, or AI detection alone.

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