Speaking Power to Truth [[electronic resource] ] : Digital Discourse and the Public Intellectual
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| Autore: |
Keren Michael
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| Titolo: |
Speaking Power to Truth [[electronic resource] ] : Digital Discourse and the Public Intellectual
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| Pubblicazione: | Edmonton, : Athabasca University Press, 2015 |
| Edmonton, Alberta : , : Athabasca University Press, , 2015 | |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (170 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 305.552 |
| Soggetto topico: | Intellectual life |
| Digital media - Social aspects | |
| Altri autori: |
HawkinsRichard
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| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Introduction : New challenges to knowledge in the public sphere / Richard Hawkins and Michael Keren -- Establishing the public legitimacy and value of scientific knowledge in an information ether / Richard Hawkins -- Public intellectuals, media intellectuals, and academic intellectuals : comparing the space of opinion in Canada and the United States / Eleanor Townsley -- The eye of the swarm : collective intelligence and the public intellectual / Jacob G. Foster -- Creating the conditions for an intellectually active people : what today's public intellectual can learn from Anonymous / Liz Pirnie -- "Trust me -- I'm a public intellectual" : Margaret Atwood's and David Suzuki's social epistemologies of climate science / Boaz Miller -- Engendering a new generation of public intellectuals : speaking truth to power with grace and humility / Karim-Aly Kassam -- Reflections on my dubious experience as a public intellectual / Barry Cooper -- Intellectual discourse online / Michael Keren. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | Casting doubt on the assertion that online discourse, with its proliferation of voices, will somehow yield collective wisdom, Speaking Power to Truth raises concerns that this wealth of digitally enabled commentary is, in fact, too often bereft of the hallmarks of intellectual discourse: an epistemological framework and the provision of evidence to substantiate claims. Instead, the pursuit of truth finds itself in competition with the quest for public reputation, access to influence, and enhanced visibility. But as knowledge is drawn into the orbit of power, and as the line between knowledge a |
| Altri titoli varianti: | Cultural Dialectics |
| Speaking Power to Truth | |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Speaking Power to Truth |
| ISBN: | 1-77199-035-X |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910688235203321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Cultural Dialectics