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Question：

Please analyze the reason behind “Post-truth era” .

（简析“后真相时代”背后的原因）

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参考答案

In the late 20th century, Steve Tesich, a Serbian-American playwright, first used the term "post-truth" to describe the common features of events such as “Watergate”, Iran-Contra Affair and the Gulf War. The term then was published in Nation in 1992. 

In 2004, the American writer Ralph Keyes created a concept called “Post-Truth Era” . He thought that the human society for the determination of things is not only by truth or false, yes or no, black or white, such kind of simple judgment, but also exists at the edge of truth and lies, which is the third "Vague statement". Such a statement will make a certain impact on the accuracy principle of news.

In 2010, David Roberts, a Communication scholar, came up with the concept of "post-truth politics". He argues that the truth lies in politicians' mouths. 

My personal understanding of “post-truth era” is that people are more likely to accept emotionally infused information than truly objective facts. There basically are the attitudes of “I believe whatever I want to” and “I don’t really care what is going on” . 

I think, there are three reasons behind the "post-truth era".

First, from the perspective of knowledge production, all the "truths" are facts that were processed in a certain structural or procedural way. Under such circumstances, people will judge the right from wrong of events by their feelings. People are more inclined to express their own opinions and emotions.

Second, from the perspective of science and technology, the immediacy and high speed of social media can deliver the information to the audience in an overwhelmingly fast way. However, driven by economic interests, the objectivity of the information can’t be guaranteed. This makes the truth farther away from the audience while emotion and attitude keep coming closer and closer.

Finally, from the perspective of social consensus, "post-truth" is essentially a catharsis of social emotions. In the context of intensified conflicts, people's interest demands and emotional needs have not been properly reflected, recognized, and standardized.

In "Post-truth era", everybody can be a drama queen.

20 世纪后期，塞尔维亚裔美国剧作家史蒂夫·特西齐用“Post-truth”首次用以 描述“水门事件”、“伊朗门事件”、“海湾战争”等事件的共同特点，于1992年发表在《国家》杂志上。

2004 年，美国作家凯伊斯创造了“后真相时代” (Post-Truth Era) 的概念, 他认为人类社会对于事物的判定并不是只存在真实与谎言这种非 黑即白的简单关系, 还存在徘徊于真实与谎言边缘的第三种“模糊的陈述”, 并且这种模糊的陈述对于新闻报道准确性原则会产生一定的冲击力。

2010 年, 传播学者大卫·罗伯茨提出“后真相政治”的概念，认为事实真相掌握在政客们口中。

我个人对“后真相时代”的理解是人们更愿意接受注入情感的信息，而不是真正客观的事实。简单来说，就是“我相信我愿意相信的”和“与我无关”。

我认为形成“后真相时代”的原因有三点：

从知识生产层面来讲，所有的“真相”都是需要经 过一定的结构性或程序性处理之后的事实，人们在这样的情况下，会选择依靠自 己的感情来判断事件的是与非，也更倾向于表达自己的观点和情绪；从科学技术 层面来讲，社交媒体的即时性和高速性使事件能够第一时间到达受众，但由于受 经济利益导向，其传播的事件的客观性并不能得到保证，使得真相离受众越来越 远，情绪和态度离受众越来越近；从社会共识层面来讲，“后真相”本质上是一种 对社会情绪的宣泄，人们在矛盾激化的环境下，利益诉求和情感需要没有得到适 当的反映、认知、规范。

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