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1 online resource (1 audio file (4hr., 42 min.)) : digital. |
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digital digital recording rda |
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data file rda |
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Digital content provided by hoopla. |
| Performer |
Read by William Sarris. |
| Summary |
Taking stock of our fragmented political landscape, Michael Patrick Lynch delivers a trenchant philosophical take on digital culture and its tendency to make us into dogmatic know-it-alls. The internet-where most shared news stories are not even read by the person posting them-has contributed to the rampant spread of "intellectual arrogance." In this culture, we have come to think that we have nothing to learn from one another; we are rewarded for emotional outrage over reflective thought; and we glorify a defensive rejection of those different from us. Interweaving the works of classic philosophers such as Hannah Arendt and Bertrand Russell and imposing them on a cybernetic future they could not have possibly even imagined, Lynch delves deeply into three core ideas that explain how we've gotten to the way we are: our natural tendency to be overconfident in our knowledge; the tribal politics that feed off our tendency; and the way the outrage factory of social media spreads those politics of arrogance and blind conviction. In addition to identifying an ascendant "know-it-all-ism" in our culture, Lynch offers practical solutions for how we might start reversing this dangerous trend. |
| System Details |
Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
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Information society -- Political aspects.
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Polarization (Social sciences) -- Political aspects.
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Social media -- Political aspects.
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Internet -- Political aspects.
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Identity politics.
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Political culture.
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| Added Author |
Sarris, William, narrator.
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hoopla digital.
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| ISBN |
9781684573059 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
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168457305X (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
| Music No. |
MWT12413887 |
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