Quotidiennement, des agitateurs prennent d'assaut les tribunes pour attiser colères identitaires et passions xénophobes. Leur brutalité verbale, qui vise principalement les «migrants» et les «musulmans», rappelle la violence de ceux qui, dans la première moitié du siècle précédent, vilipendaient les «métèques» et les «juifs». De la même façon que les droites d'antan vitupéraient contre le «judéo-bolchevisme», leurs épigones...

Les émotions dévorent l'espace social et politique au détriment des autres modes de connaissance du monde, notamment la raison. Certes, comme le disait Hegel, « rien de grand ne se fait sans passion », mais l'empire des affects met la démocratie en péril. Il fait régresser la société sous nos yeux en transformant des humains broyés par les inégalités en bourreaux d'eux-mêmes, les incitant à pleurer plutt qu'à agir. À la « stratégie...

Les brutes et la punaise dissèque le phénomène des radios de confrontation, connues sous le quolibet de « radios-poubelles », et don’t la plupart se trouvent à Québec. Dominique Payette y analyse la frontière ténue qui sépare journalisme d'opinion et manipulation politique, et livre ce salutaire rappel : si les médias ont le droit de prendre position, voire de soutenir des idées politiques, il est de leur devoir de le faire dans le respect...

"Once one of Silicon Valley's greatest success stories, Facebook has been under constant fire for the past five years, roiled by controversies and crises. It turns out that while the tech giant was connecting the world, they were also mishandling users' data, spreading fake news, and amplifying dangerous, polarizing hate speech ... Drawing on their unrivaled sources, Sheera Frenkel and Cecilia Kang take readers inside the complex court politics, alliances...

A former FBI Special Agent and leading cyber-security expert offers a devastating and essential look at the misinformation campaigns, fake news, and electronic espionage operations that have become the cutting edge of modern warfare-and how we can protect ourselves and our country against them. Clint Watts electrified the nation when he testified in front of the House Intelligence Committee regarding Russian interference in the 2016 election. In...

Since the US presidential election of 2016 the words propaganda and fake news have been prominent in American political and cultural discourse. Yet very few people can provide a coherent explanation of what they mean, precisely, when using them. On the two sides of the political spectrum ("red" and "blue"), each points out messages from the other side that they think are untrue-or that they simply don't like. Unlike our dangerously biased political...

First published in 1922, "Public Opinion" is the fascinating study of the role of citizens in a democracy by Walter Lippmann, an American writer, reporter and political commentator. Lippmann's notable career spanned decades and produced some of the most important journalism in American history. He was the first to introduce the concept of the Cold War, received many awards, including two Pulitzer Prizes, and wrote thousands of articles and columns,...

This book is based on an in-depth filmed conversation between Howard Burton and UC Berkeley political scientist Professor Mark Bevir, who is an internationally acclaimed expert in the theory of governance. This thought-provoking conversation explores how attempts to shoehorn political science into a natural science framework commonly fail and how correctly appreciating what social science is and does has a direct bearing on our everyday social lives. By...

En junio de 2011 Julian Assange estaba viviendo bajo arresto domiciliario en Norfolk (Inglaterra), en casa de unos amigos. Allí recibió al entonces presidente de Google, Eric Schmidt, que había solicitado encontrarse con él. Schmidt se presentó con otras tres personas y durante horas mantuvo una larga conversación con Assange. Hablaron de los problemas a los que la sociedad tiene que hacer frente y de las soluciones tecnológicas que podía...

How bad is the problem of media bias? The answer can be summed up in a few words: President Donald J. Trump. Whether you love him or hate him, there's no question that Trump gained a huge amount of support for his willingness to criticize the media in harsh and unsparing terms. The media seems baffled by the fact that it's lost the trust of the American people. It has responded by being extraordinarily defensive and doubling down on histrionic attacks....