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| Information Flow and Democracy Posted by Stephen Boydstun on 7/01, 1:51pm | ||
| I add this note to News because it is about news media in a democracy. The Social Epistemology of Blogging Alvin I. Goldman In this paper, Professor Goldman focuses on a “factor important to democracy, a factor that is emphasized by so-called epistemic approaches to democracy. According to epistemic democrats, democracy exceeds other systems in its ability to ‘track the truth’. According to Rousseau, for example, the people under a democracy can track truths about the ‘general will’ and the ‘common good’ (Rousseau 1962, book 4). Recent proponents of epistemic democracy include Estlund (1990, 1993), Grofman and Feld (1988), and List and Goodin (2001). Their idea is that, assuming certain political outcomes are ‘right’ or ‘correct’, democracy is better than competing systems at choosing these outcomes.” The paper comprises five sections: 1. Democracy and the Epistemic Properties of Internet-Based Communication 2. Epistemic Comparisons of the Conventional Media and the Blogosphere 3. To Filter or Not to Filter? 4. Blogging as an Adversarial Process 5. Social Mechanisms and Users’ Psychological States See also: Social Epistemology | ||
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