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Knowledge Resistance in High-Choice Information Environments

Knowledge Resistance in High-Choice Information Environments

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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. The Open Access version of this book, available at www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.

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Keywords

  • anti-vaxx
  • Attitudes
  • Climate Change
  • climate change denial
  • Cognition
  • Communication
  • Conspiracies
  • Conspiracy theories
  • conspiracy theorists
  • Digital media
  • dis-information
  • disinformation
  • fake news
  • high-choice environment
  • ideologies
  • ideology
  • information
  • Internet
  • Knowledge
  • low-choice environment
  • Media
  • mis-information
  • Misinformation
  • News media
  • outgroups
  • Philosophy
  • polarisation
  • Polarization
  • Populism
  • Psychology
  • thema EDItEUR::A The Arts
  • thema EDItEUR::G Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary subjects::GT Interdisciplinary studies::GTC Communication studies
  • thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBC Cultural and media studies::JBCT Media studies
  • thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JM Psychology::JMH Social, group or collective psychology
  • thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JM Psychology::JMQ Psychology: emotions
  • thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JM Psychology::JMR Cognition and cognitive psychology
  • thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government::JPF Political ideologies and movements
  • thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government::JPH Political structure and processes
  • thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government::JPW Political activism / Political engagement::JPWC Political campaigning and advertising
  • thema EDItEUR::P Mathematics and Science::PB Mathematics::PBG Groups and group theory
  • thema EDItEUR::Q Philosophy and Religion::QD Philosophy::QDT Topics in philosophy::QDTS Social and political philosophy
  • thema EDItEUR::U Computing and Information Technology::UB Information technology: general topics::UBW Internet: general works

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DOI: 10.4324/9781003111474

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