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Special Section: Revisiting “Truth” in an Era of “Post-Truth”

Waves of Information, Suffocated Understanding, and the Place for Narrative Inquiry in the “Post-Truth” Era

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Pages 491-510 | Received 04 Aug 2019, Accepted 14 Nov 2019, Published online: 06 Mar 2020

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