Knowledge Resistance in High-Choice Information Environments

ISBN-13: 9780367629250 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 328 str.

Jesper Strömbäck; Åsa Wikforss; Kathrin Glüer

Opis

This book offers a truly interdisciplinary exploration of our patterns of engagement with politics, news, and information in current high-choice information environments.

Spis treści

1. Introduction: Toward Understanding Knowledge Resistance in High-Choice Information Environments;  2. What is Knowledge Resistance?;  3. From Low-choice to High-choice Media Environments: Implications for Knowledge Resistance;  4. Disinformation, Misinformation, and Fake News: Understanding the Supply Side;  5. Selective Exposure and Attention to Attitude-consistent and Attitude-discrepant Information: Reviewing the Evidence;  6. Relevance-Based Knowledge Resistance in Public Conversations;  7. Responsiveness to Evidence: A Political Cognition Approach;  8. Reports of the Death of Expertise May Be Exaggerated: Limits on Knowledge Resistance in Health and Medicine;  9. Is Resistance Futile? Citizen Knowledge, Motivated Reasoning, and Fact-Checking;  10. Uninformed or Misinformed? A Review of the Conceptual–Operational gap Between (Lack of) Knowledge and (Mis)perceptions;  11. Striving for Certainty: Epistemic Motivations and (Un)biased Cognition;  12. Political Polarization Over Factual Beliefs;  13. The Democratic Gold-Standard of Fact-Based Issue Ambivalence;  14. Overcoming Knowledge Resistance: A Systematic Review of Experimental Studies