Belief and Misbelief Asymmetry on the Internet (Paperback)

Gérald Bronner

  • 出版商: Wiley
  • 出版日期: 2016-01-26
  • 售價: $6,050
  • 貴賓價: 9.5$5,748
  • 語言: 英文
  • 頁數: 300
  • 裝訂: Paperback
  • ISBN: 1848219164
  • ISBN-13: 9781848219168
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商品描述

This book discusses the media, beliefs, the news, the Internet, etc. but it should not be seen as yet another critique of the media system, exploring with indignant fascination the idea of a machination against truth set up to serve a society of domination. These kinds of theories, whether they pertain to conspiracy theories or, more subtly, to a self-styled "critical" way of thinking, have always seemed to be the expression of a form of intellectual puerility. This is not to say that attempts at manipulating opinions do not occur, or that our world is free from compromised principles, or indeed corruption; far from it, but none of this is the key issue.

In fact, reality can somehow be even more unsettling than those myths, however sophisticated they may be, that envisage the media system hand-in-hand with industry, science, and so forth, all in agreement so as to lead the "people" away from the truth. It is more unsettling because the processes described in this book and that allow falsehood and dubiousness to take hold of the public sphere are boosted by the development of IT, the workings of our minds, and the very nature of democracy. And finally, it is more unsettling because we are all responsible for what is going to happen to us.

商品描述(中文翻譯)

這本書討論了媒體、信仰、新聞、互聯網等等,但不應該被視為對媒體系統的又一次批評,探索著一種對真理的陰謀機制,旨在服務於一個支配社會的觀點。這些理論,無論是陰謀論還是更微妙的自稱“批判性”思維,似乎總是表達了一種智力幼稚的形式。這並不是說試圖操縱觀點的企圖不存在,或者我們的世界沒有受到妥協原則或腐敗的影響;事實恰恰相反,但這些都不是關鍵問題。

事實上,現實可能比那些想像媒體系統與工業、科學等等手牽手,一致將“人民”引離真相的神話更令人不安。它更令人不安,因為本書描述的過程,以及允許虛假和可疑性在公共領域中占據主導地位的因素,都得到了信息技術的發展、我們思維的運作以及民主的本質的推動。最後,它更令人不安,因為我們都對即將發生在我們身上的事情負有責任。