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Trump’s return to the Oval Office is more than a political comeback, it is evidence of how much post-truth has changed since 2016. The narrative then was that Trump rode a wave of misinformation straight into the White House. But in 2025, this is the story of a candidate whose …
Polarisation, News Consumption, and Beliefs in Misinformation and Conspiracy Theories: Early Signs of the Fragmentation of the Public Sphere in Iceland
Project: RECLAIM
Special Issue: Javnost - The Public
Authors: Jón Gunnar Ólafsson & Valgerður Jóhannsdóttir
A common explanation linked to increased polarisation has focused on changes in citizens’ information diets, with like-minded people apparently becoming increasingly isolated in online echo chambers. This article investigates whether news audience polarisation has increased …
Exploring affective Polarisation of the (Digital) Public Sphere in Slovenia: The Case of Marshal Twito
Project: RECLAIM
Special Issue: Javnost - The Public
Authors: Melika Mahmutović & Marko Lovec
The last decade saw the issue of polarisation garnering increased scholarly attention. While political polarisation has been almost unequivocally studied as synonymous with ideological polarisation, scholars have recently addressed polarisation along partisan lines manifesting through strong …
Does the Centre Hold? Public Sphere Configuration, Democracy, and the Quality of Political Talk in Sweden
Project: RECLAIM
Special Issue: Javnost - The Public
Author: Peter Strandbrink
In the present article, key conceptual and regulative requirements for quality public democratic talk to be maintained are identified and the linguistic economy of civic conversation about common affairs in the Swedish public sphere gauged; the relationship between public …
Fragmented and Polarised? The German Public Sphere during the Russian Invasion of Ukraine
Project: RECLAIM
Special Issue: Javnost - The Public
Author: Maximilian Conrad
The digital age has brought about fundamental questions about the viability of the public sphere. While a shared and inclusive communicative space is widely considered to be a fundamental requirement for democratic deliberation, the rise of social (and other …
What Is the EU’s Vision of Democracy in the Post-Truth Scenario? A Conceptual Analysis of the Institutional Narratives of the Public Sphere in the “Democracy Action Plan”
Project: RECLAIM
Special Issue: Javnost - The Public
Authors: Elena García-Guitián, Luis Bouza & Taru Haapala
Contributing to recent academic and public debates on how European democracies should respond to a scenario of “post-truth politics”, this article explores the idea of democracy that underlies current regulatory responses in the “European …
Not About Facts, but Emotions? Political Polarisation as a Problem of Redescription
Project: RECLAIM
Special Issue: Javnost - The Public
Author: Jeremias Schledorn
Political polarisation, e.g. following the refugee movements of 2015 or the Covid pandemic, is often explained by emotions. The latter are widely exploited as a political strategy, while points of view are often discredited as based on mere emotion …
Fugitive Truth: Renewing the Public Sphere in the Age of Post-Truth
Project: RECLAIM
Special Issue: Javnost - The Public
Author: Saul Newman
In the sixty years since the publication of Jürgen Habermas' magnum opus, The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere, the public sphere now faces a new threat in the era of “post-truth” politics. The preponderance of lies, mis/disinformation, “fake …