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Who Should We Be Online?: A Social Epistemology for the Internet

Autor Karen Frost-Arnold
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 26 feb 2023
Global inequalities and our social identities shape who we are, who we can be online, and what we know. From social media to search engines to Wikipedia, the internet is thoroughly embedded in how we produce, find, and share knowledge around the world. Who Should We Be Online? examines the challenges of the online world using numerous epistemological approaches. Tackling problems of online content moderation, fake news, and hoaxes, Frost-Arnold locates the role that sexism, racism, and other forms of oppression play in creating and sharing knowledge online.Timely and interdisciplinary, Who Should We Be Online? weaves together internet studies scholarship from across the humanities, social sciences, and computer science. Frost-Arnold recognizes that the internet can both fuel ignorance and misinformation and simultaneously offer knowledge to marginalized groups and activists. Presenting case studies of moderators, imposters, and other internet personas, Frost-Arnold explains the problems with our current internet ecosystem and imagines a more just online future. Who Should We Be Online? argues for a social epistemology that values truth and objectivity, while recognizing that inequalities shape our collective ability to attain these goals. Frost-Arnold proposes numerous suggestions and reform strategies to make the internet more conducive to knowledge production and sharing.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780190089184
ISBN-10: 0190089180
Pagini: 280
Dimensiuni: 236 x 164 x 24 mm
Greutate: 0.56 kg
Editura: Oxford University Press
Colecția OUP USA
Locul publicării:New York, United States

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Karen Frost-Arnold's clear, engaging, rigorous, and broadly informed book is a vital reading for anyone who wants to understand the human condition in the digital age. The book provides an epistemology of the internet through an anti-oppressive lens, introducing us to a cast of characters who have emerged recently but who fundamentally shape how and what we know. But the book is also much more than a work of epistemology; it is an existential examination of who and what technologically mediated selves are
Who Should We be Online? is an illuminating, timely, and essential treatment of the epistemology of the internet. Using both vivid examples and sophisticated theoretical tools, Karen Frost-Arnold sheds much-needed light on a host of crucial topics, including imposters, tricksters, fake news, and lurking. A must-read on the perils and promise of the internet
Our online life doesn't escape the injustices of the offline world; indeed, as Karen Frost-Arnold shows in this arresting and carefully argued new book, it deepens them. Bringing the skills of a first-rate feminist philosopher to the problems of our digital age, this book provides us with a new socially situated internet epistemology
Karen Frost-Arnold, in her important and meticulously argued new book, offers a major contribution to researchers of online life across social scientific and humanistic inquiry - and keenly bridges the two. She provides us with an entirely new toolkit and philosophical framework for understanding. For anyone interested in the motivations and (self-) conceptions of those who make up the internet of people, this book is a must-read.

Notă biografică

Karen Frost-Arnold is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Hobart & William Smith Colleges. Her research focuses on the philosophy of the internet, the epistemology and ethics of trust, social epistemology, philosophy of science, and feminist philosophy.