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For the Greater Good? The Devastating Ripple Effects of the Covid-19 Crisis [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2020 As the crisis around Covid-19 evolves, it becomes clear that there are numerous negative side-effects of the lockdown strategies implemented by many countries.
Michaéla C. Schippers
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Knowledge in the dark: scientific challenges and ways forward [PDF]
FACETS, 2019 A key dimension of our current era is Big Data, the rapid rise in produced data and information; a key frustration is that we are nonetheless living in an age of ignorance, as the real knowledge and understanding of people does not seem to be ...
Jonathan M. Jeschke +3 more
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Evidence, rationality, and ignorance: Agnotological issues in COVID-19 science [PDF]
Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical, 2020 Two decades ago, Robert Proctor coined the term agnotology to refer to the study of ignorance that stems from scientific research. Amid the coronavirus disease pandemic, the world is witnessing the greatest natural experiment ever, and countries have ...
Carlos Magno Castelo Branco Fortaleza
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Erasmus Journal for Philosophy and Economics, 2014 The recent commercialization and privatization of scientific research has reconfigured the organization of science worldwide, fostering new scientific practices and new political tools to manage scientific research. Focusing on the mechanisms of ignorance production, the recent literature in agnotology has been a fruitful approach for understanding the
Manuela Fernández Pinto
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Agnotology and information [PDF]
Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 2015 ABSTRACT Agnotology was coined in an effort to create a title for a project to build an understanding of ignorance. The poster proposed seeks to re‐introduce ignorance to information science through the comparison of the construction of ignorance in agnotology and the construction of information in information science.
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Covid-19: agnotology, inequality, and leadership [PDF]
Human Resource Development International, 2020 I use the concept of agnotology to examine the way in which the UK government diverted the public gaze from lack of equipment and hidden privatization by claiming to ‘follow the science’ and so ado...
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Agnotology, Trustworthiness, and Uncertainty in the Presentation of Research Findings [PDF]
Human Research in RehabilitationAs editors and scholars, we have a few serious concerns about the presentation of research findings in refereed journals. These concerns range from a lack of theoretical, research, or contextual foundation to misinterpretation of information to a ...
Peter V. Paul, Husnija Hasanbegovic
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Agnotology and the Criminological Imagination
Critical Criminological Perspectives, 2018 In this chapter we reflect upon the concept of ‘agnotology’ and its usefulness for the expansion of a zemiological criminology. Initially presented as an analytical tool in the fields of science and medicine, agnotology explores the social and political underpinnings of forms of ignorance and their role in both generating and securing acquiescence in ...
Alana Barton, Howard Davis
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Letter to the Editor on ‘Smoking cessation in pregnancy: An update for maternity care practitioners’ [PDF]
Tobacco Induced Diseases, 2020 Alain Braillon
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Agnotology: Ignorance and Absence or Towards a Sociology of Things That Aren’t There
Social Epistemology, 2014 The study of ignorance, or agnotology, has many similarities with studies of absence. This paper outlines a framework for agnotology which is shaped by interdisciplinary studies of both ignorance and absence, and identifies properties such as chronicity, granularity, scale, intentionality, and ontology in relation to epistemology as useful for studying
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