Media Knowledge And Trust The Deepening Epistemic Crisis Of Democrac

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Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review The argument has two related parts: firstly, we are witnessing an “epistemic” crisis in public spheres that threatens to undermine political agency. This crisis has to do with the massive amounts and speed of information, the processes by which we construct knowledge, as well as the new forms of knowledge deriving from digital technologies. Many developments in information technologies benefit democracy, but there is a growing concern about cognitive dilemmas. Secondly, in the present tumultuous juncture of Western democracies, dominated by the populist revolt, traditional distrust of media has turned into an assault on basic Enlightenment premises, eroding shared understandings of reality and compatible... “Knowledge” becomes legitimated via emotionality.

Critical rationality and progressive politics must engage more with these developments. Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review T2 - The Deepening Epistemic Crisis of Democracy N2 - The argument has two related parts: firstly, we are witnessing an “epistemic” crisis in public spheres that threatens to undermine political agency. This crisis has to do with the massive amounts and speed of information, the processes by which we construct knowledge, as well as the new forms of knowledge deriving from digital technologies. Many developments in information technologies benefit democracy, but there is a growing concern about cognitive dilemmas.

Secondly, in the present tumultuous juncture of Western democracies, dominated by the populist revolt, traditional distrust of media has turned into an assault on basic Enlightenment premises, eroding shared understandings of reality and compatible... “Knowledge” becomes legitimated via emotionality. Critical rationality and progressive politics must engage more with these developments. Academia.edu no longer supports Internet Explorer. To browse Academia.edu and the wider internet faster and more securely, please take a few seconds to upgrade your browser. Dahlgren, focuses on the sociological psychology as Gerbaudo does in his article.

He argues that the diversity of perspectives that helps a pluralist representative democracy might indeed result in an environment of epistemologic crisis today. He claims that as the abundance of knowledge and speed of information and developing new epistomologies increase, democracy starts facing an epistemic crisis.1The emergence of digital technologies may be considered as being controlled state... Journal of Philosophical Investigations , 2024 What is the state of democracy today? In the Western world, people often take the meaning of this term for granted, but do they genuinely know what democracy is? In this sense, how can we define democracy in today’s digitalized world?

What is the relationship between democracy and information? Furthermore, do we really live in a democratic world? In Infocracy: Digitalization and the Crisis of Democracy—the 2022 translation of the original German book Infokratie. Digitalisierung und die Krise der Demokratie, published in 2021 by MSB Matthes & Seitz Berlin Verlagsgesellschaft mbH—Byung-Chul Han reflects on these and other related issues. Han’s analysis of the current political, social, and technological situation indicates that a profound democratic crisis is emerging. The loss of interest in truth, the end of grand narratives, the replacement of reason with data analysis (even in philosophy), the fragmentation of the population due to digitalization, and the predominant role of...

In these terms, Han’s vision, at times excessively pessimistic, orients us on the crucial issues of our time. Media, Knowledge And Trust: The Deepening Epistemic Crisis Of Democracy Sign-up to our newsletter to be informed about latest developments: our Unpacking Current Developments in the Information Space Insight Series, our newsletter, news from our network, events and publications. 2025 - Observatory on Information & Democracy This map represents a statistical summary of the thematic content of the report. The network graph represents relations between the words in the report, placing them closer to each other the more they are related.

The bigger the node, the more present the word is, signalling its role in defining what the report or chapter is about. The colors represent words that are closely related to each other and can be interpreted as a topic. The map was generated by Giovanni Maggi using the GarganText tool – developed by the CNRS Institute of Complex Systems – on the basis of the repot’s text. Breadcrumbs Section. Click here to navigate to respective pages. DOI link for Media, Knowledge and Trust: The Deepening Epistemic Crisis of Democracy

Media, Knowledge and Trust: The Deepening Epistemic Crisis of Democracy Click here to navigate to parent product. The argument has two related parts: firstly, we are witnessing an "epistemic" crisis in public spheres that threatens to undermine political agency. This crisis has to do with the massive amounts and speed of information, the processes by which we construct knowledge, as well as the new forms of knowledge deriving from digital technologies. Many developments in information technologies benefit democracy, but there is a growing concern about cognitive dilemmas. Secondly, in the present tumultuous juncture of Western democracies, dominated by the populist revolt, traditional distrust of media has turned into an assault on basic Enlightenment premises, eroding shared understandings of reality and compatible...

"Knowledge" becomes legitimated via emotionality. Critical rationality and progressive politics must engage more with these developments.

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