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Index
Cover
Title
Contents
Preface
Part I: The New Old Problems of Knowledge
1. Our Digital Form of Life
Neuromedia
Socrates on the Way to Larissa
Welcome to the Library
2. Google-Knowing
Easy Answers
Being Receptive: Downloading Facts
John Locke Agrees with Mom
Being Reasonable: Uploading Reasons
3. Fragmented Reasons: Is the Internet Making Us Less Reasonable?
The Abstract Society
When Fights Break Out in the Library
The Rationalist’s Delusion
Democracy as a Space of Reasons
4. Truth, Lies and Social Media
Deleting the Truth
The Real as Virtual
Interlude: To SIM or Not to SIM
Falsehood, Fakes and the Noble Lie
Objectivity and Our Constructed World
Part II: How We Know Now
5. Who Wants to Know: Privacy and Autonomy
Life in the Panopticon
The Values of Privacy
The Pool of Information
Privacy and the Concept of a Person
Transparency and Power
6. Who Does Know: Crowds, Clouds and Networks
Dead Metaphors
Knowledge Ain’t Just in (Your) Head
The Knowing Crowd
The “Netography” of Knowledge
7. Who Gets to Know: The Political Economy of Knowledge
Knowledge Democratized?
Epistemic Equality
Walmarting the University
8. Understanding and the Digital Human
Big Knowledge
The End of Theory?
Understanding Understanding
Knowing How to Chuck
Coming to Understand as a Creative Act
9. The Internet of Us
Technology and Understanding
Information and the Ties That Bind
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Also by Michael Patrick Lynch
About the Author
Copyright
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