Controversial Encounters in the Age of Algorithms
How Digital Technologies are Stifling Public Debate and What to Do About It
1st Edition
Published on 27. November 2024
230 pages
978-1-5292-3835-8 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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.
Reviews / Votes
"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 BoulderMore details
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First Edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Bristol
United Kingdom
Illustrations
Not illustrated
File size
0,82 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-5292-3835-8 (9781529238358)
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How Digital Technologies are Stifling Public Debate and What to Do About It
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How Digital Technologies are Stifling Public Debate and What to Do About It
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Sine N. Just is Professor of Strategic Communication in the Department of Communication and Arts at Roskilde University.
Content
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
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
