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Our contemporary moment is preoccupied with arbitrating 'reality'. With the spectre of buzzwords like 'fake news' and 'post-truth' we find a scramble to locate or fix some sort of universal 'real' beneath what are positioned as 'fake' articulations. To engage with this crisis, this collection argues for the importance of a new conjuncture in communication and cultural studies of media. Building on Hall's understanding of 'conjuncture' as a way of grasping moments within hegemonic struggle, the essays suggest that the current moment requires a revitalization of the concept of conjuncture.

Chapter 1: Introduction: Post-Truth and the Mediation of Reality -- Chapter 2: Fake President: Telemorphosis and the performance of grotesque power -- Chapter 3: The White Noise of Desire -- Chapter 4: Postmodernism in the twenty first century: Culture wars, antagonism and the problem of truth -- Chapter 5: Beyond Post-truth as Mediation: From fascism and neoliberalism to fake news -- Chapter 6: The reveal of the Real in hashtag politics -- Chapter 7: Veils of prejudice: race and class in the current conjuncture -- Chapter 8: Pre-truth, Post-truth and the Present: Jacques Lacan and the Real Horror of Contemporary Knowledge -- Chapter 9: Civility, Subversion and Technocratic Class Consciousness: Reconstituting Truth in the Journalistic Field

Led by Erika Pearson with assistance from Bernard Madill (both from the University of Otago) and featuring contributors from Massey University, University of Canterbury and University of South Australia. "Inspired by similar projects around the world, and supported by funding from Creative Commons, the Media Text Hack Group sought to act as 'curators' of the vast array of information about media and communication, and drew together examples specific to the region . This first release represents a core of work based on the common curricula of media and communication studies programs across the region. It is hoped that future versions will develop and expand these areas, as well as take advantage of new tools of collaboration and sharing. All are welcome to take, use, recycle and adapt the material under the Creative Commons Attribution licence"--Media release, 13 Feb. 2013 ; Pt. 1. Reading media texts -- Pt. 2. Culture and contexts -- Pt. 3. Production and structures -- Pt. 4. Audiences & identity.