Rethinking the Post-Truth Polarisation Narrative: Social Roles and Hinge Commitments in the Plural Public Sphere
Rethinking the Post-Truth Polarisation Narrative: Social Roles and Hinge Commitments in the Plural Public Sphere
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重新思考后真相两极分化叙事：多元公共领域中的社会角色和枢纽承诺
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10.1111/1467-923x.13032
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2021
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Ashton N
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Ashton N
本文批判性地评价了我们所说的关于公共领域状态的“流行叙事”。我们确定了这种流行叙事的三个元素（后真相元素，极化元素和新技术元素），并借鉴了关于铰链认识论和社会角色的哲学著作来挑战每一个。相反，我们认为，公共辩论一直依赖于非证据性承诺，它一直是重大的，深刻的分歧的所在地，社交媒体，而不是造成这些现象，只是让它们更加明显。最后，我们建议对传统媒体和社交媒体进行一些改变，我们相信这将有助于培养一个更健康，更具包容性的公共领域。
This article critically evaluates what we call the ‘popular narrative’ about the state of the public sphere. We identify three elements of this popular narrative (the post‐truth element, the polarisation element and the new technology element), and draw on philosophical work on hinge epistemology and social roles to challenge each one. We propose, instead, that public debate has always depended on non‐evidential commitments, that it has always been home to significant, deep division, and that social media, rather than causing these phenomena, has just made them more visible. Finally, we recommend some changes to traditional and social media which we believe would help foster a healthier, more inclusive, public sphere.