Now, mass media are clearly determined by ideological values, the question is how to identify the true?
True our truth Ruben? There is a question in itself. Post-true - or post-truth?
While we are here - you relate your question to mass media and ideology. What about in the era of the beginning of the early printing press? Would the same question ring true? Come the advent of the next technology - there will always be the next post-event. A tricky question to ask I predict.
Indeed Dean,
True or truth have very different nuances. In truth we assume that something is certain or true but what is really true in these media scenario? I was very pleased with your approach to the printing era because, indeed, I am sure there would be some kind of "ideology" inside. The difference I see is today we can create types of truths in different virtual media (Twitter, Blogs...). That point changes the conception of truth . As Nietzsche would say "The truth, as we know it, is dead" and given way to "new truths" that fight in a space to become "unquestionable truth." An exciting subject, no doubt.
Hi Ruben - I like your considered response (and your considered 'Thinker' pose) and I can see this question potentially going around in philosophical circles. I love a philosophical debate. I was a huge fan of Jacques Derrida, as light reading, and then he became integral to my PhD some years ago. Then he became 'heavy reading'. I still have a soft spot for him - but I have a few scars that linger as well. Perhaps Nietzsche has done the same with you? Derrida would argue (at least through translation) that there is no truth. Everything we see and view is 'surface material' - call it print, media or anything else that we view. In essence, through 'deconstrutionism' (binary opposition), what we read and view is expressed between the lines of text; the 'true' interpretation of what authors wanted to say had they been free to do so. Is that the 'unquestionable truth' - or is their yet another level to be exposed between the lines of the lines? As you state - exciting stuff - but perhaps with some doubt...
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