THE CONSTRUCTION OF DISPLACED REALITY VOLUME 2 - Appearances of Manipulative Communication

“Manipulation of the human mind, emotions and behaviors with different purposes and techniques is one of the incurable diseases of the history of thought and social relations. Although the type, technique and environment of manipulation vary, the subject of manipulation deserves a special value within the framework of communication studies. The massification of communication and the new features of modern media tools can be seen among the main factors that advance this situation, which is described as a disease. The phenomenon of manipulation should be examined at varying levels in the fields of communication science, on which different fields of expertise focus. It has been seen as both a scientific necessity and a moral obligation that communication scientists deal with this phenomenon from different aspects. From this point of view, this second volume of The Construction of Distorted Reality deals with the manipulative aspect of communication through trolling, perception and impression management, data journalism, ethics, critical thinking, post-truth, media literacy and many more. For the reader who feels the uneasiness of the mistake and cares about the truth...