Speaking power to truth : digital discourse and the public intellectual / edited by Michael Keren and Richard Hawkins.

Format:

Book

Series:

Cultural dialectics.

Cultural Dialectics, 1915-8378

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Intellectuals.

Intellectual life.

Intellectuals--Case studies.

Digital media--Social aspects.

Digital media.

Communication--Social aspects.

Communication.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (217 pages) : illustrations, maps

Place of Publication:

Edmonton, [Alberta] : AU Press, 2015.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

text file

Summary:

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

Contents:

Frontmatter

Part I Perspectives

Acknowledgements

Introduction: New Challenges to Knowledge in the Public Sphere

1 Establishing the Public Legitimacy and Value of Scientific Knowledge in an Information Ether

2 Public Intellectuals, Media Intellectuals, and Academic Intellectuals: Comparing the Space of Opinion in Canada and the United States

3 The Eye of the Swarm: Collective Intelligence and the Public Intellectual

4 Creating the Conditions for an Intellectually Active People: What Today’s Public Intellectual Can Learn from Anonymous

Part II Case Studies

5 “Trust Me—I’m a Public Intellectual” Margaret Atwood’s and David Suzuki’s Social Epistemologies of Climate Science

6 Engendering a New Generation of Public Intellectuals: Speaking Truth to Power with Grace and Humility

7 Reflections on My Dubious Experience as a Public Intellectual

8 Intellectual Discourse Online

Contributors

Index

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

ISBN:

1-77199-034-1

OCLC:

945777174