Communication Against Domination: Ideas of Justice from the Printing Press to Algorithmic Media

This book tackles the philosophical challenge of bridging the gap between empirical research into communication and information technology, and normative questions of justice and how we ought to communicate with each other. It brings the question of what justice demands of communication to the center of social science research.

Max Hänska undertakes expansive philosophical analysis to locate the proper place of normativity in social science research, a looming subject in light of the sweeping roles of information technologies in our social world today. The book's first section examines metatheoretical issues to provide a framework for normative analysis, while the second applies this framework to three technological epochs: broadcast communication, the Internet and networked communications, and the increasing integration of artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies into our communication systems. Hänska goes beyond the prevailing frameworks in the field by exploring how we answer normative questions and how our answer can change depending on our social context and the affordances of prevailing communications technologies.

This book provides an essential guide for scholars as well as graduate and advanced undergraduate students of research and theory in communication, philosophy, political science, and the social sciences.

這本書探討了將通訊和資訊技術的實證研究與正義和我們應該如何彼此溝通的規範問題之間的哲學挑戰。它將正義對於溝通的要求置於社會科學研究的核心位置。

Max Hänska進行了廣泛的哲學分析，以找到規範性在社會科學研究中的適當位置，這是在當今資訊技術在我們的社會世界中扮演重要角色的背景下，一個迫在眉睫的議題。該書的第一部分探討了元理論問題，為規範性分析提供了一個框架，而第二部分則將此框架應用於三個技術時代：廣播通訊、互聯網和網絡通訊，以及人工智能和機器學習技術越來越多地融入我們的通訊系統。Hänska超越了領域中普遍存在的框架，探討了我們如何回答規範性問題，以及我們的答案如何根據我們的社會背景和主流通訊技術的可行性而改變。

這本書為學者以及研究和理論方面的通訊、哲學、政治科學和社會科學的研究生和高年級本科生提供了一個必不可少的指南。

Max Hänska is an Associate Fellow at the Free University of Berlin and has previously held posts at De Montfort University, the University of Gothenburg, and the London School of Economics, where he also earned a PhD. His research interests center on social media and collective action, as well as normative questions in the communications field.

Max Hänska是柏林自由大學的副研究員，曾在德蒙福特大學、哥德堡大學和倫敦政治經濟學院擔任職位，並在倫敦政治經濟學院獲得博士學位。他的研究興趣集中在社交媒體和集體行動，以及傳播領域的規範性問題。