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Making sense of politics, media and law: rhetorical performance as invention, creation, production

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From Trump’s ‘make America great again’ to Johnson’s ‘build back better’,
performative politicians use The Making Sense to persuade their public
audiences. Law ‘makers’ do it too: A courtroom trial is a ‘truth factory’ in
which facts are not found but forged. The ‘court of popular opinion’ is another
such factory, though its processes are often flawed and its products faulty.
Where courts of law aim to make civil peace, ‘trial by Twitter’ makes civil
strife. Even in ‘mainstream’ media, journalists make news for public consumption, so that all news is to an extent ‘fake news’. In a world of making, how can
we separate craft from craftiness? With insights from disciplines including
law, politics, rhetoric, media studies, psychology, sociology, marketing, and
performance studies, The Making Sense of Politics, Media, and Law offers a
constructive way to approach controversies from transgender identity to
cancel culture. This title is also available as open access on Cambridge Core.

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Series Title

Law in context

Call Number

340.115 WAT m

Publisher

New York : Cambridge University Press., 2023

Collation

xii, 284 pages; illustration

Language

English

ISBN/ISSN

9781009336413

Classification

340.115

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Subject(s)

Mass media
Rhetoric
Sociological jurisprudence

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Gary Watt

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