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Speaking power to truth : digital discourse and the public intellectual / edited by Michael Keren and Richard Hawkins.

Title
Speaking power to truth : digital discourse and the public intellectual / edited by Michael Keren and Richard Hawkins.
Publication
Edmonton, AB : AU Press, Athabasca University [2015]

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Additional Authors
  • Hawkins, Richard
  • Keren, Michael, 1944-
Description
208 pages : illustrations; 23 cm.
Summary
Introduction : New challenges to knowledge in the public sphere / Richard Hawkins and Michael Keren -- Establishing the public legitimacy and value of scientific knowledge in an information ether / Richard Hawkins -- Public intellectuals, media intellectuals, and academic intellectuals : comparing the space of opinion in Canada and the United States / Eleanor Townsley -- The eye of the swarm : collective intelligence and the public intellectual / Jacob G. Foster -- Creating the conditions for an intellectually active people : what today's public intellectual can learn from Anonymous / Liz Pirnie -- "Trust me--I'm a public intellectual" : Margaret Atwood's and David Suzuki's social epistemologies of climate science / Boaz Miller -- Engendering a new generation of public intellectuals : speaking truth to power with grace and humility / Karim-Aly Kassam -- Reflections on my dubious experience as a public intellectual / Barry Cooper -- Intellectual discourse online / Michael Keren.
Series Statement
Cultural dialectics
Uniform Title
Cultural dialectics.
Subject
  • Intellectuals
  • Intellectuals > Case studies
  • Intellectual life
  • Digital media > Social aspects
  • Communication > Social aspects
  • Digital media > Social aspects
  • Intellectual life
  • Intellectuals
  • Intellectuels
  • Intellectuels > Études de cas
  • Vie intellectuelle
  • Médias numériques > Aspect social
  • Communication > Aspect social
Genre/Form
  • Case studies
  • Aufsatzsammlung.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Additional Formats (note)
  • Issued also in electronic format.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Introduction : New challenges to knowledge in the public sphere / Richard Hawkins and Michael Keren -- Establishing the public legitimacy and value of scientific knowledge in an information ether / Richard Hawkins -- Public intellectuals, media intellectuals, and academic intellectuals : comparing the space of opinion in Canada and the United States / Eleanor Townsley -- The eye of the swarm : collective intelligence and the public intellectual / Jacob G. Foster -- Creating the conditions for an intellectually active people : what today's public intellectual can learn from Anonymous / Liz Pirnie -- "Trust me--I'm a public intellectual" : Margaret Atwood's and David Suzuki's social epistemologies of climate science / Boaz Miller -- Engendering a new generation of public intellectuals : speaking truth to power with grace and humility / Karim-Aly Kassam -- Reflections on my dubious experience as a public intellectual / Barry Cooper -- Intellectual discourse online / Michael Keren.
ISBN
  • 9781771990332 (paperback)
  • 1771990333 (paperback)
  • 9781771990349 (PDF)
  • 1771990341 (PDF)
  • 9781771990356 (epub)
  • 177199035X (epub)
LCCN
^^2015514162
OCLC
  • 902919484
  • SCSB-12705689
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library