Controversial Encounters in the Age of Algorithms How Digital Technologies are Stifling Public Debate and What to Do About It
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2024
/ Engelsk
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ISBN
9781529238341
Publisert
2024-11-27
Utgiver
Vendor
Bristol University Press
Høyde
234 mm
Bredde
156 mm
Aldersnivå
G, 01
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Product language
Engelsk
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Heftet
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Biographical note
Sine N. Just is Professor of Strategic Communication in the Department of Communication and Arts at Roskilde University.“Just delivers a compelling answer to the burning question of how to sustain meaningful encounters with difference in today’s communication landscape. Ancient ideas meet new imperatives in this fresh interdisciplinary take on what rhetoric can do.” Karen Lee Ashcraft, University of Colorado Boulder
How can we have meaningful public conversations in the algorithmic age?
This book explores how digital technologies shape our opinions and interactions, often in ways that limit our exposure to diverse perspectives and fuel polarization. Drawing on the ancient art of arguing all sides of a case, the book offers a way to revive public debate as a source of trust and legitimacy in democratic societies.
This is a timely and urgent book for anyone who cares about the future of democracy in the digital era.
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This book explores how digital technologies shape our opinions and interactions, often in ways that limit our exposure to diverse perspectives and therefore can fuel polarization. Drawing on the ancient art of controversy, (arguing all sides of a case) it offers a way to revive public debate as a source of trust and legitimacy in our society.
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1. The Closing of the Rhetorical Mind
2. Press Play: Organizing Digital Communication
3. The Digital Transformation of the Public Sphere
4. Controversial Encounters of the First Kind: The Theory and Practice of Controversy
5. Controversial Encounters of the Second Kind: Sweet Consensus and Nasty Conflict
6. Controversial Encounters of the Third Kind: Towards Automated Persuasion?
7. Affective Alternatives: Opening the Rhetorical Mind
8. Make Disagreement Good Again
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Offers an in-depth analysis of the detrimental effects of algorithmic thinking on rhetorical debates;
Argues that a return to the classical notion of controversy (arguing all sides of a case) can help tackle these detrimental effects;
Shows how individuals and organizations can use algorithms and data to (re)ignite public debate in an increasingly digitised world.
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Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9781529238341
Publisert
2024-11-27
Utgiver
Vendor
Bristol University Press
Høyde
234 mm
Bredde
156 mm
Aldersnivå
G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Forfatter