TY  - GEN
T1  - The constitution of knowledge : a defense of truth
A1  - Rauch, Jonathan, 1960-
LA  - English
PP  - Washington, DC
PB  - Brookings Institution Press
YR  - 2021
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/jstor_eba_on1246571886
AB  - Disinformation. Trolling. Conspiracies. Social media pile-ons. Campus intolerance. On the surface, these recent additions to our daily vocabulary appear to have little in common. But together, they are driving an epistemic crisis: a multi-front challenge to America's ability to distinguish fact from fiction and elevate truth above falsehood. In 2016 Russian trolls and bots nearly drowned the truth in a flood of fake news and conspiracy theories, and Donald Trump and his troll armies continued to do the same. Social media companies struggled to keep up with a flood of falsehoods, and too often didn't even seem to try. Experts and some public officials began wondering if society was losing its grip on truth itself. Meanwhile, another new phenomenon appeared: "cancel culture." At the push of a button, those armed with a cellphone could gang up by the thousands on anyone who ran afoul of their sanctimony. In this pathbreaking book, Jonathan Rauch reaches back to the parallel eighteenth-century developments of liberal democracy and science to explain what he calls the "Constitution of Knowledge"--our social system for turning disagreement into truth. By explicating the Constitution of Knowledge and probing the war on reality, Rauch arms defenders of truth with a clearer understanding of what they must protect, why they must do--and how they can do it. His book is a sweeping and readable description of how every American can help defend objective truth and free inquiry from threats as far away as Russia and as close as the cellphone.
OP  - 305
NO  - Description based upon print version of record.
CN  - PN4756 .R38 2021eb
SN  - 9780815738879
SN  - 0815738870
SN  - 9780815738862
SN  - 0815738862
KW  - Truthfulness and falsehood.
KW  - Truth : Political aspects.
KW  - Information literacy.
KW  - Disinformation.
KW  - Social media : Political aspects.
KW  - Fake news : United States : 21st century.
KW  - Social epistemology.
KW  - Knowledge, Sociology of.
KW  - Media literacy.
KW  - Cancel culture : United States : 21st century.
KW  - Censorship : United States.
KW  - Freedom of speech.
KW  - United States : Intellectual life : 21st century.
KW  - Mensonge.
KW  - Vérité : Aspect politique.
KW  - Culture de l'information.
KW  - Désinformation.
KW  - Médias sociaux : Aspect politique.
KW  - Fausses nouvelles : États-Unis : 21e siècle.
KW  - Épistémologie sociale.
KW  - Sociologie de la connaissance.
KW  - Éducation aux médias.
KW  - Culture du bannissement : États-Unis : 21e siècle.
KW  - Liberté d'expression.
KW  - États-Unis : Vie intellectuelle : 21e siècle.
KW  - sociology of knowledge.
KW  - Cancel culture
KW  - Censorship
KW  - Disinformation
KW  - Fake news
KW  - Freedom of speech
KW  - Information literacy
KW  - Intellectual life
KW  - Knowledge, Sociology of
KW  - Media literacy
KW  - Social epistemology
KW  - Social media : Political aspects
KW  - Truthfulness and falsehood
KW  - United States
KW  - 2000-2099
ER  -