ABSTRACT
In this note of comment, the editors of the collection Media and the Restyling of Politics, published in 2003, assess how the ideas behind it relate to the contexts of contemporary politics and culture. In doing so, they critically examine the perspective on media-political change developed in the book, particularly in its introduction, and examine what evaluations remain relevant and what require revision in settings in which the dimensions of ‘post-truth’ are established and active. The major shifts in media framings of political, social and cultural order are noted, involving new applications of technology, new styles of political claims-making, and a different connection with the idea of the ‘popular’ bringing changed orders of public trust and public scepticism. The broader geopolitical setting is referred to at several points.
