ABSTRACT One of the fundamental concerns regarding communication media is accuracy or truth. This essay takes up and investigates this issue, which has, in the wake of the recent U.S. presidential election and the arrival of “the post-truth era,” become increasingly important. It does not, however, examine any particular truth or the truth that is conveyed by any specific medium. Instead it seeks to uncover and investigate the general concept of truth that has defined both the act of mediation and the efforts of communication studies. What will have been discovered in the course of the examination is that the standard understanding of truth, which is developed in and comes to us through the mediation of various influential texts in the history of thought, is not, strictly speaking, true or accurate. In response to this problem, we will introduce and develop another formulation of truth that is more “truthful” to the concept of media communication and the exigencies of mediation. To put it in a kind of short hand formula, it could be said that the objective of the investigation is to demonstrate the truth of the following statement: The truth of media is disclosed in the medium of truth.

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真理的媒介：后真理时代的媒介研究

摘要有关通信媒体的基本问题之一是准确性或真实性。本文探讨并研究了这个问题，在最近的美国总统大选和“后真相时代”的到来之后，这一问题变得越来越重要。但是，它不检查任何特定的真理或任何特定媒介传达的真理。取而代之的是，它试图发现和研究真理的一般概念，它定义了调解的行为和传播研究的努力。在考试过程中发现的是，对真理的标准理解，严格地说是通过思想史上各种有影响力的文本的调解发展而来的，并不是严格意义上的真实或准确。为了解决这个问题，我们将介绍和发展另一种真理的表述，它对媒体传播的概念和调解的紧迫性更为“真实”。简而言之，可以说调查的目的是证明以下陈述的真实性：媒体的真实性是在真实性的媒介中披露的。