Knowledge Resistance in High-Choice Information Environments

Přispěvatelé: Strömbäck, Jesper, Wikforss, Åsa, Glüer, Kathrin, Lindholm, Torun, Oscarsson, Henrik
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2022
Předmět:
affective polarization
anti-vaxx
attitudes
attitude-consistent information
attitude-discrepant Information
beliefs attitudes knowledge
biased information processing
citizens as co-producers of information
citizens as disseminators of information
citizens as media consumers
citizen knowledge motivated reasoning fact-checking
climate change
climate change denial
cognition
cognitive ability
cognitive dissonance knowledge resistance
cognitive dissonance political polarization
communication
communication knowledge resistance
confirmation bias knowledge resistance
confirmation bias political polarization
conspiracies
conspiracy theories
conspiracy theorists
contemporary high-choice media environments
contradictory information
counteracting knowledge resistance
credibility perceptions knowledge resistance
death of expertise
denying expert authority
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information & interdisciplinary subjects::GT Interdisciplinary studies::GTC Communication studies

bic Book Industry Communication::H Humanities::HP Philosophy::HPS Social & political philosophy
bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JP Politics & government::JPV Political control & freedoms::JPVH Human rights::JPVH1 Civil rights & citizenship
bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JF Society & culture: general::JFH Popular beliefs & controversial knowledge::JFHC Conspiracy theories
Druh dokumentu: book
DOI: 10.4324/9781003111474
Popis: This book offers a truly interdisciplinary exploration of our patterns of engagement with politics, news, and information in current high-choice information environments. Putting forth the notion that high-choice information environments may contribute to increasing misperceptions and knowledge resistance rather than greater public knowledge, the book offers insights into the processes that influence the supply of misinformation and factors influencing how and why people expose themselves to and process information that may support or contradict their beliefs and attitudes. A team of authors from across a range of disciplines address the phenomena of knowledge resistance and its causes and consequences at the macro- as well as the micro-level. The chapters take a philosophical look at the notion of knowledge resistance, before moving on to discuss issues such as misinformation and fake news, psychological mechanisms such as motivated reasoning in processes of selective exposure and attention, how people respond to evidence and fact-checking, the role of political partisanship, political polarization over factual beliefs, and how knowledge resistance might be counteracted. This book will have a broad appeal to scholars and students interested in knowledge resistance, primarily within philosophy, psychology, media and communication, and political science, as well as journalists and policymakers.
Databáze: OAPEN Library