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Post-truth politics and climate denial: further reflections
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In this article, four commentaries in response to my essay on post-truth (Knowledge Politics and Post-truth in Climate Denial, 2019) usefully add something to the search for an understanding of climate denial.Abstract:
All four of the commentaries in response to my essay on post-truth (‘Knowledge Politics and Post-Truth in Climate Denial,’ Issue 3, 2019) usefully add something to the search for an understanding o...read more
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Fighting fake news in the COVID-19 era: policy insights from an equilibrium model.
Kris Hartley,Minh Khuong Vu +1 more
TL;DR: A formal mathematical model is introduced to understand factors influencing the behavior of social media users when encountering fake news and illustrates that direct efforts by social media platforms and governments, along with informal pressure from social networks, can reduce the likelihood that users who encounter fake news embrace and further circulate it.
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Climate crisis and the democratic prospect. Participatory governance in sustainable communities
TL;DR: In this wide ranging and timely book, Frank Fischer poses an important question -what are the prospects for democracy in a world of accelerating climate change? In his search for an answer, the au...
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Climate Crisis and the Democratic Prospect: Participatory Governance in Sustainable Communities, by Frank Fischer, Oxford University Press, 2017, 352 pp., ISBN: 9780199594917 (Hardback), £65; ISBN: 9780199594924 (paperback), £25; also available as an e-book and via Oxford Scholarship Online
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The Epistemics of Policymaking: from Technocracy to Critical Pragmatism in the UN Sustainable Development Goals
TL;DR: The authors examines epistemological tensions inherent in the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) project and argues that the clash between the totalizing logic of the SDGs and growing populist antipathy for expert governance can be better understood and potentially mediated through a critical pragmatist view.
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Beyond Misinformation: Understanding and coping with the post-truth era
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explore the growing abundance of misinformation, how it influences people, and how to counter it, and suggest that responses to this malaise must involve technological solutions incorporating psychological principles, an interdisciplinary approach that they describe as "technocognition".
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The disinformation order: Disruptive communication and the decline of democratic institutions:
TL;DR: In many cases, this disinformatization can result in increased levels of false information circulating through social media and political websites that mimic journalism formats as mentioned in this paper, which can be classified as disinformation.
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Down to Earth: Politics in the New Climatic Regime
Bruno Latour,Catherine Porter +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors identify a new geosocial attractor called Terrestrial, which is the out-of-this-world attractor of political ecology and political ecology, and explain why political ecology has had difficulty breaking away from the right/left opposition.
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Climate crisis and the democratic prospect. Participatory governance in sustainable communities
TL;DR: In this wide ranging and timely book, Frank Fischer poses an important question -what are the prospects for democracy in a world of accelerating climate change? In his search for an answer, the au...
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Irrationality: A History of the Dark Side of Reason
TL;DR: From sex and music to religion and politics, a history of irrationality and the ways in which it has always been with us can be found in this paper, where Smith argues that irrationality makes up the greater part of human life and history Ranging across philosophy, politics, and current events.