Since the public generally regards the media with suspicion and distrust; the mediarsquo;s central concern is to regain that trust through the production of sincerity. Advancing the field of media studies in a truly innovative way; Boris Groys focuses on the mediarsquo;s affect of sincerity and its manufacture of trust to appease skeptics.Groys identifies forms of media sincerity and its effect on politics; culture; society; and conceptions of the self. He relies on different philosophical writings thematizing the gaze of the other; from the theories of Heidegger; Sartre; Mauss; and Bataille to the poststructuralist formulations of Lacan and Derrida. He also considers media “states of exceptionrdquo; and their creation of effects of sinceritymdash;a strategy that feeds the mediarsquo;s predilection for the extraordinary and the sensational; further fueling the publicrsquo;s suspicions. Emphasizing the mediarsquo;s production of emotion over the presentation (or lack thereof) of “facts;rdquo; Groys launches a timely study that boldly challenges the presumed authenticity of the mediarsquo;s worldview.
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