El escepticismo como función social de la posverdad en la era de la comunicación digital: una propuesta de análisis desde la teoría crítica y la hermenéutica-fenomenológica

Abstract

This paper presents part of the construction of the theoretical-conceptual framework of ongoing research on political communication in the digital environment. It is primarily driven by the question of whether or not there are substantive differences between political communication strategies across the right and left ideological spectrums or, put it in another way, whether there are substantive differences between what has lately been generically termed populism. Unfortunately, due to space constraints, the case studies have been omitted. The decision was made to present only a synthesis of the theoretical-conceptual framework and the analysis of one of the consequences observed from it, namely, the curious phenomenon of misinformation and political disorganization and paralysis (skepticism). This phenomenon stems not from an information deficit, as supposed by traditional first and second generation of systems theory and the closely related cybernetics of Wiener, but from an excess of information. This excess, together with the current state of digital communication –which largely enables it– is presented here as the core of the concept of post-truth.