Virtues, democracy, and online media : ethical and epistemic issues / edited by Nancy E. Snow and Maria Silvia Vaccarezza.

Contributor(s): Snow, Nancy E [editor.] | Vaccarezza, Maria Silvia [editor.]Material type: Text

TextSeries: Routledge studies in ethics and moral theoryPublisher: New York, NY : Routledge, 2021Description: 1 online resourceContent type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9781003083108; 1003083102; 9781000406085; 1000406083; 9781000406115; 1000406113Subject(s): Social media -- Moral and ethical aspects | Digital media -- Moral and ethical aspects | Social media and society | Truthfulness and falsehood -- Political aspects | Democracy and education | Disinformation -- Moral and ethical aspects | PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy | PHILOSOPHY / EpistemologyDDC classification: 302.23/1 LOC classification: HM742Online resources: Taylor & Francis | OCLC metadata license agreement

Contents:

Introduction / Maria Silvia Vaccarezza and Nancy E. Snow -- Democratic truth-seeking, tribal epistemologies, and trust / Nancy E. Snow -- Democracy, information technology, and virtue epistemology / Jason Baehr -- Misinformation and intentional deception : a novel account of fake news / Michel Croce and Tommaso Piazza -- Post-truth, false balance and virtuous gatekeeping / Alfred Archer and Natascha Rietdijk -- Psychological processes in social media : implications for democracy / Shane Connelly, Marina Mery, and Keith Strasbaugh -- The halo effect, post-truth communication, and practical wisdom / Claudia Navarini, Allegra Indraccolo, Elena Ricci, and Ricardo Brunetti -- Patience, love of truth, and navigating online media in an age of distraction / Jason Kawall -- Anger, moral address and claimant injustice / Alessandra Tanesini -- Reconceiving civic competence for the digital age / Rena Beatrice Goldstein -- The virtues of the E-interlocutor / Howard J. Curzer -- Partisanship and epistemic partiality / Valeria Ottonelli -- Partisanship as virtue and vice / Yuval Eylon -- Post-factualism, political communication and the role of citizens / Maria Paola Ferretti.

Summary: "This book addresses current threats to citizenship and democratic values posed by the spread of post-truth communication. The contributors apply research on moral, civic, and epistemic virtues to issues involving post-truth culture. The spread of post-truth communication affects ordinary citizens' commitment to truth and attitudes toward information sources, thereby threatening the promotion of democratic ideals in public debate. The chapters in this volume investigate the importance of helping citizens improve the quality of their online agency and raise awareness of the risks social media poses to democratic values. The book moves from two initial chapters that provide historical background and overview of the present post-truth malaise, through a series of chapters that feature mainly diagnostic accounts of the epistemic and ethical issues we face, to the complexities of virtue-theoretic analyses of specific virtues and vices. Virtues, Democracy, and Online Media will be of interest to scholars and advanced students working in virtue ethics, epistemology, political philosophy, and media studies"-- Provided by publisher.

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"This book addresses current threats to citizenship and democratic values posed by the spread of post-truth communication. The contributors apply research on moral, civic, and epistemic virtues to issues involving post-truth culture. The spread of post-truth communication affects ordinary citizens' commitment to truth and attitudes toward information sources, thereby threatening the promotion of democratic ideals in public debate. The chapters in this volume investigate the importance of helping citizens improve the quality of their online agency and raise awareness of the risks social media poses to democratic values. The book moves from two initial chapters that provide historical background and overview of the present post-truth malaise, through a series of chapters that feature mainly diagnostic accounts of the epistemic and ethical issues we face, to the complexities of virtue-theoretic analyses of specific virtues and vices. Virtues, Democracy, and Online Media will be of interest to scholars and advanced students working in virtue ethics, epistemology, political philosophy, and media studies"-- Provided by publisher.

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