About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 51. Chapters: Bushism, Brights movement, Truthiness, Moneybomb, Agnotology, Crowd funding, Digital native, Snowclone, Podcast, Green Scare, Library 2.0, Bush Derangement Syndrome, Jihobbyist, Cyber Monday, Partido da Imprensa Golpista, Participatory media, AfPak, Online office suite, Pink tide, Game brain, Eurosphere, Domain tasting, Cyber Black Friday, Full Ginsburg, Chojoongdong, Hamastan, Death by PowerPoint, Neuroarthistory, Manhattanhenge, Photoblog, Longplay, Freemium, Mobile blogging, Bobos in Paradise, Camwhore, Greenography, Purple America, Quirkyalone, Media hacker, Lactivism, Phantom rings, Remix culture, Glass cliff, Accountable autonomy, Medireview, Man date, Post-democracy, Pythagoras' constant, Photowalking, Bluecasting, Alpha Mom, Visionary globalism, Daytonnati, McBrother, Linklog, Citizen enterprise. Excerpt: Truthiness is a "truth" that a person claims to know intuitively "from the gut" in that it "feels right" without regard to evidence, logic, intellectual examination, or facts. American television comedian Stephen Colbert coined the word in this meaning as the subject of a segment called "The Word" during the pilot episode of his political satire program The Colbert Report on October 17, 2005. By using this as part of his routine, Colbert satirized the misuse of appeal to emotion and "gut feeling" as a rhetorical device in contemporaneous socio-political discourse. He particularly applied it to U.S. President George W. Bush's nomination of Harriet Miers to the Supreme Court and the decision to invade Iraq in 2003. Colbert later ascribed truthiness to other institutions and organizations, including Wikipedia. Colbert has sometimes used a Dog Latin version of the term, "Veritasiness." For example, in Colbert's "Operation Iraqi Stephen: Going Commando" the word "Veritasiness" can be seen on the banner above the...
