The unedited public sphere
The unedited public sphere
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DOI：
10.1177/1461444819893980
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发表时间：
2020-04-01
影响因子：
5
通讯作者：
Gil de Zuniga, Homero
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作者：
Bimber, Bruce;Gil de Zuniga, Homero
民主公共领域的健康受到谎言流传的挑战。这些认知问题与社交媒体有关，它们提出了一个经典问题，即如何理解技术在政治发展中的作用。我们讨论了促进虚假信念传播的三套社交媒体的技术负担：掩盖信息的来源，促进关于作者的欺骗，以及提供对社会信号的操纵。我们认为，这些并不会使社交媒体成为错误问题的“起因”，但对认知问题的解释应该解释社交媒体理解认知问题的时机和广泛发生的原因。我们认为，“思想市场”不足以解决这些问题，因为这些问题需要媒体进行认识性的编辑。
The health of democratic public spheres is challenged by the circulation of falsehoods. These epistemic problems are connected to social media and they raise a classic problem of how to understand the role of technology in political developments. We discuss three sets of technological affordances of social media that facilitate the spread of false beliefs: obscuring the provenance of information, facilitating deception about authorship, and providing for manipulation of social signals. We argue that these do not make social media a "cause" of problems with falsehoods, but explanations of epistemic problems should account for social media to understand the timing and widespread occurrence of epistemic problems. We argue that "the marketplace of ideas" cannot be adequate as a remedy for these problems, which require epistemic editing by the press.