[Commlist] New book: Epistemic Rights in the Era of Digital Disruption

New book: Epistemic Rights in the Era of Digital Disruption

(Horowitz, Nieminen, Lehtisaari & D'Arma, eds. 2024, Palgrave/Springer)

This open-access volume argues that in a functioning democracy, citizens 
should be equally capable of making informed choices about matters of 
social importance. This includes citizens accessing all relevant 
information and knowledge necessary for informed will formation. In 
today's complex era of digital disruption, it is not enough to simply 
speak about communication or even digital rights. The starting point for 
this volume is the need for 'epistemic equality'.

The contributors seek to showcase the history and diversity of current 
debates around communication and digital rights, as precursors for the 
need for epistemic rights; both as a theoretical concept and an 
empirically assessed benchmark. The book highlights scholarship via 
academic case studies from around the world to feature different issues 
and methodological approaches, as well as similarities in academic and 
policy challenges across the globe.

The goal is to provide an overview of issues that depict challenges to 
epistemic rights, extract both academic and applied policy implications 
of different approaches, and end with a set of recommendations for 
advancing policy-relevant scholarship on epistemic rights. This volume 
is intended as the first holistic response to an urgent need to address 
epistemic rights of communication as a central public policy issue, as 
an academic analytical concept, as well as a central theme for informed 
public debate.

Download your copy here: 
https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-45976-4


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