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Hermeneutics in the Post-Truth Era: A Study of Media Discourse Rhetoric

Volume 9|Issue 36| Spring 2021 |Translation

Abstract

Hermeneutic methodology is an analytical and dialectical approach essential to the development of critical thinking. In the "post-truth" era, traditional textual interpretation has given way to more complex interpretative instances in which audio-visual content is the basis of new narratives and new knowledge. Qualitative methodological research has always claimed socio-historical and temporal prominence in the analysis of social phenomena. Accepting this premise, hermeneutics is presented as a plausible methodological research strategy on representations of social fact. Specifically, the aim of this research is to show the potential of hermeneutic analysis by examining two opposing versions of the terrorist attack that took place at the headquarters of the satirical weekly magazine, Charlie Hebdo, in 2015. The researcher deploys the hermeneutics of suspicion to arrive at the conclusion that the Internet has become a catalyst for multiple truths, in the post-truth era. The Internet is a channel for the exuberant effusion of critical thinking andexposition. It is a space of resistance, where people can question the mainstream media's narratives and the Davos elite's interpretations.

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​Associate Professor at the University of Extremadura in Spain He holds a PhD in Sociology from the Complutense University of Madrid.

Professor of Arabic at the Regional Academy of Education and Training – Tangier Tetouan Al Hoceima Region, Associate Member in the Laboratory of Hermeneutics and Textual Studies at the Faculty of Letters and Human Sciences, Tetouan, Morroco.

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