Speaking Power to Truth : Digital Discourse and the Public Intellectual
Casting doubt on the assertion that online discourse, with its proliferation of voices, will somehow yield collective wisdom, Speaking Power to Truth raises concerns that this wealth of digitally enabled commentary is, in fact, too often bereft of the hallmarks of intellectual discourse: an epistemo...
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| Superior document: | Cultural Dialectics |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Edmonton, Alberta : : Athabasca University Press,, 2015. |
| Year of Publication: | 2015 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Cultural Dialectics
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (170 p.) |
| Notes: | Description based upon print version of record. |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : New challenges to knowledge in the public sphere / Richard Hawkins and Michael Keren
- Establishing the public legitimacy and value of scientific knowledge in an information ether / Richard Hawkins
- Public intellectuals, media intellectuals, and academic intellectuals : comparing the space of opinion in Canada and the United States / Eleanor Townsley
- The eye of the swarm : collective intelligence and the public intellectual / Jacob G. Foster
- Creating the conditions for an intellectually active people : what today's public intellectual can learn from Anonymous / Liz Pirnie
- "Trust me
- I'm a public intellectual" : Margaret Atwood's and David Suzuki's social epistemologies of climate science / Boaz Miller
- Engendering a new generation of public intellectuals : speaking truth to power with grace and humility / Karim-Aly Kassam
- Reflections on my dubious experience as a public intellectual / Barry Cooper
- Intellectual discourse online / Michael Keren.