Review of "Epistemic Rights in the Era of Digital Disruption"

by Minna Aslama Horowitz, Hannu Nieminen, Katja Lehtisaari and Alessandro D’Arma (Eds.) 2024. Palgrave Macmillan.

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Abstract

This review essay summarizes and evaluates the merits of individual chapters in the collection entitled Epistemic Rights in the Era of Digital Disruption, a recent publication in Palgrave’s International Association for Media and Communications Research series. The reviewer offers an overview of the current understanding of the concept of “epistemic rights”, explains how the book portrays the disruptive context of recent digital transformation of the public sphere, and echoes the call articulated by the editors and authors in the collection to strengthen democracies by acknowledging citizens’ epistemic rights as part of larger extension of human rights in the mediatized societies.

Author Biography

Katarzyna Molek-Kozakowska, University of Opole and Vilnius Gediminas Technical University

The authoress is Associate Professor and Head of the Department of English, Institute of Linguistics, University of Opole, Poland, Director of Research Project CORECON on coverage and reception of Russian-Ukrainian conflict, at University of Lucian Blaga in Sibiu, Romania, as well as Senior Research Fellow at Vilnius Gediminas Technical University, Lithuania. With a background in English studies, she specializes in discourse analysis, journalism practices and public communication and media studies.

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2024-11-20

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Molek-Kozakowska, K. (2024). Review of "Epistemic Rights in the Era of Digital Disruption": by Minna Aslama Horowitz, Hannu Nieminen, Katja Lehtisaari and Alessandro D’Arma (Eds.) 2024. Palgrave Macmillan. Władza Sądzenia, (26), 97–103. https://doi.org/10.18778/2300-1690.26.06

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No. 26 (2024): Nowa władza komunikacji: technologia, algorytmy, aktorzy nie-ludzcy

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