The constitution of knowledge : a defense of truth /
Disinformation. Trolling. Conspiracies. Social media pile-ons. Campus intolerance. On the surface, these recent additions to our daily vocabulary appear to have little in common. But together, they are driving an epistemic crisis: a multi-front challenge to America's ability to distinguish fact...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Washington, DC :
Brookings Institution Press,
[2021]
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 1 "A terrible statement unless he gets away with it": Chaos and conformity have caused an epistemic crisis
- 2 The state of nature: tribal truth: Bias, groupthink, and the epistemic war of all against all
- 3 Booting reality: the rise of networked knowledge: Outsourcing reality to a social network is humankind's greatest innovation
- 4 The constitution of knowledge: The operating system of the reality-based community
- 5 Disinformation technology: the challenge of digital media: Making the online world truth-friendly is difficult but doable
- 6 Troll epistemology: "flood the zone with shit": Disinformation is an old enemy with new weapons and powerful friends
- 7 Canceling: despotism of the few: Coercive conformity is corrupting the reality-based community
- 8 Unmute yourself: pushing back: Defending the Constitution of Knowledge requires confidence and counter-mobilization.