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Drawing from philosophy, information theory, and network science, Organized Skepticism in the Age of Misinformation: Surviving the Kingdom of Gossip offers a novel conceptual framework that views information as a form of gossip.
This book challenges the idea that truthfulness is a necessary, or even a relevant condition, of information. Instead, this book develops a conceptual framework in which information is understood as gossip, which fits within a more general account of information and knowledge as constrained but contingent social practices. Using this framework, this book provides a nuanced understanding of the "grammar" of gossip that permeates both online and real‑orld environments and sheds light on the often overused and confused terms of our time: information, misinformation and knowledge.
This book offers a fundamental reconfiguration of the evolving virtual interdependence of humans and information technology. It is a key resource for students and scholars in areas relating to social media, information diffusion, human/computer interface, and computational social science.
Contents
Introduction
Part I: A Crisis of Knowledge and Everyday Epistemology
1. Problems with the Concept of Knowledge
2. Knowledge Is Necessarily Contingent and Normative
3. The Practices of Redescription (Paradiastole)
Part II: Information and Misinformation
4. What Is Information?
5. Shannon's Theory of Information
6. Data, Counting, and Writing
7. Is Information Subjective or Objective? Or Neither?
8. Is Misinformation a Kind of Information? (Or Must Information Be True?)
9. Truth Is Seldom the Motive : The Complexity of Human Motives
Part III: Gossip and Rumor
10. A Critique of Current Models of Information Diffusion
11. Gossip and Rumor
12. A Discursive Grammar of Traditional Gossip
Part IV: Online Interfaces
13. Online Information Diffusion as Gossip and Dreamscape
14. The Grammar of Online Self‑Gossip
15. The 'Information Ecosystem' and Gossiping AIs
Conclusion
Chapter 16 ◾ The Dynamo and the Internet
