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Rural Identity as a Contributing Factor to Anti-Intellectualism in the U.S. [PDF]

Political Behavior, 2022
Anti-intellectualism—a distrust of intellectuals and experts—has had a significant political presence in the U.S. and globally, especially in recent years.
Kristin Lunz Trujillo
exaly   +4 more sources

Anti-intellectualism amid the COVID-19 pandemic: The discursive elements and sources of anti-Fauci tweets [PDF]

Public Understanding of Science, 2023
Anti-intellectualism (resentment, hostility, and mistrust of experts) has become a growing concern during the pandemic. Using topic modeling and supervised machine learning, this study examines the elements and sources of anti-Fauci tweets as a case of ...
Yingying Chen, Jacob A Long, Ali Zain
exaly   +3 more sources

Rather Spirit-filled than learned! Pentecostalism's tradition of anti-intellectualism and Pentecostal theological scholarship

Verbum et Ecclesia, 2016
The beginnings and first half-century of South African Pentecostalism are characterised by a tradition of anti-intellectualism consisting of a rejection of theological training, a critical and negative attitude towards theologians, and criticism of the ...
Marius Nel
doaj   +4 more sources

Frank Ramsey's Anti-Intellectualism

Journal for the History of Analytical Philosophy
Frank Ramsey’s philosophy, developed in the 1920s in Cambridge, was in conversation with the debates surrounding intellectualism in the early twentieth century. Ramsey made his mark on the anti-intellectualist tradition via his notion of habit.
Soroush Marouzi
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A brief scale for measuring Anti-Intellectualism

Personality and Individual Differences, 2017
This paper describes the development of a brief scale to measure anti-intellectualism, the degree to which one experiences either positive or negative affect while engaged in epistemic activities such as conceptual integration.
Mathew D Marques, Brad Elphinstone, Christine R Critchley   +2 more
exaly   +4 more sources

COVID-19, Anti-Intellectualism, and Health Communication: Assessing the Chinese Social Media Platform Sina Weibo. [PDF]

Healthcare (Basel), 2022
In the digital media era, new media platforms have become the main channels for transmitting medical and health information in China. However, anti-intellectualism limits the effectiveness of disseminating health information.
Guo S, Lin T, Akhtar N, Du J.
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“Don’t Fauci My Florida:” Anti-Fauci Memes as Digital Anti-Intellectualism

Media and Communication, 2022
In his prescient book Achieving Our Country, Richard Rorty predicts the rise of a Trump-like strongman built on attacking, among other public figures, “postmodern professors” (1998, p. 90).
Andrew Zolides
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Cyber anti-intellectualism and science communication during the COVID-19 pandemic: a cross-sectional study [PDF]

Frontiers in Public Health
BackgroundDuring the COVID-19 pandemic, science communication played a crucial role in disseminating accurate information and promoting scientific literacy among the public.
Yan Kuang
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ANTI-INTELLECTUALISM AS A POPULIST MEDIA STRATEGY IN THE CONTEXT OF RUSSIA’S WAR AGAINST UKRAINE

Інтегровані комунікації
This article explores anti-intellectualism as a key media strategy within populist discourse during Russia’s full-scale war against Ukraine. We examine anti-intellectualism not only as a sociocultural phenomenon typical of societies in crisis but also as
Nina Zrazhevska
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Scientists as Influencers: The Role of Source Identity, Self-Disclosure, and Anti-Intellectualism in Science Communication on Social Media

Social Media + Society, 2023
As social media become increasingly important for science communication, scientists are grappling with their new role on these platforms. While some have called for the increased presence and training of scientists on social media, others prefer to ...
Annie Li Zhang, Hang Lu
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