The question concerning Fake News; Ritual approach to fake news in Iran and the hegemony of instrumental rationality

Document Type : Tarviji

Author
HOSSEIN KERMANI
University of Tehran
Abstract
I am not going to write an abstract for this essay. First, this essay does not comply with the norms of academic papers and, second I challenge the reduction of a whole paper to an abstract as an underpinning and reproduction work of instrumental rationality. However, I discuss the ‘meaning’ of ‘fake news’ in this essay. Then, I question if fake news is a problem in Iran. To this end, I argue that focusing on fake news in Iran is because of the hegemony of instrumental rationality. That is why we focus on fake news in Iran, while it is not a problem in our country. I argue that while it is true that fake news interrupt the knowledge process and even seeking and searching information, in totalitarian socities all news do that work. Finally, I discuss this problem in the light of Hannah Arendt’ work on Human Condition which cannot be summarized here.

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Society Culture Media
Volume 8, Issue 33
Spring 2020
Pages 24-35

  • Receive Date 03 March 2020
  • Accept Date 16 June 2020