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Loading... Speaking Power to Truth: Digital Discourse and the Public Intellectual (Cultural Dialectics)by Michael Keren
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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 No library descriptions found. |
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Google Books — Loading... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)305.552Social sciences Social Sciences; Sociology and anthropology Groups of people Class Middle Class Intelligentsia, IntellectualsLC ClassificationRatingAverage: No ratings.Is this you?Become a LibraryThing Author. |