Believability

• Verfasst von: Banet-Weiser, Sarah [VerfasserIn]
• Verfasst von: Higgins, Kathryn Claire [VerfasserIn]
• Titel: Believability
• Titelzusatz: sexual violence, media, and the politics of doubt
• Verf.angabe: Sarah Banet-Weiser, Kathryn Claire Higgins
• Verlagsort: Cambridge ; Hoboken, NJ
• Verlag: polity
• Jahr: 2023
• Umfang: 250 Seiten
• Fussnoten: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 210-239
• ISBN: 978-1-5095-5382-2
• ISBN: 978-1-5095-5381-5
• Schlagwörter: (s)Medien / (s)MeToo / (s)Sexueller Missbrauch / (s)Sexualisierte Gewalt / (s)Desinformation
• Schlagwörter: (s)Medien / (s)MeToo / (s)Sexueller Missbrauch / (s)Sexualisierte Gewalt / (s)Desinformation
• Sprache: eng
• RVK-Notation: AP 17120
• K10plus-PPN: 1844447642

Abstract

"The #MeToo movement created more opportunities for women to speak up about sexual assault. But we are also living in a time when "fake news" and "alternative facts" call into question the very nature of truth. This troubling paradox is at the heart of this compelling book. The convergence of #MeToo and the crisis of post-truth is used to explore the experience of women and people of color whose claims around issues of sexual violence are often held in doubt. Banet-Weiser and Higgins investigate how the gendered and racialized logics of "believability" are defined and contested within media culture, proposing that a mediated "economy of believability" is the context in which public bids for truth about sexual violence are made, negotiated, and authorized today. Believability is a provocative intervention that will appeal to scholars and students across the social sciences and humanities, as well as to general readers."--Provided by publisher