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The (False) promise of solutionism: ideational business power and the construction of epistemic authority in digital security governance

open access: yesJournal of European Public Policy, 2023
Digital technologies are transforming security governance, bringing new risks and opportunities. The resulting uncertainty creates interpretative contests about what these new challenges are and who can – and should – address them.
A. Obendiek, T. Seidl
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Why Won’t You Listen To Me? Predictive Neurotechnology and Epistemic Authority

open access: yesNeuroethics, 2023
From epileptic seizures to depressive symptoms, predictive neurotechnologies are used for a large range of applications. In this article we focus on advisory devices; namely, predictive neurotechnology programmed to detect specific neural events (e.g ...
Alessio Tacca, F. Gilbert
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Religious Authority beyond Domination and Discipline: Epistemic Authority and Its Vernacular Uses in the Shi‘i Diaspora

open access: yesComparative Studies in Society and History, 2023
“Religious authority” remains a ubiquitous but controversial term of comparative analysis. In Islamic studies, authority is generally personified in the form of the ulama and most often viewed through Weber’s lens of charismatic, legal-rational, and ...
Ali-Reza Bhojani, Morgan Clarke
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Art markets, epistemic authority, and the institutional curation of knowledge

open access: yesCultural Studies, 2022
The recent proliferation of data about art prices has been interpreted as the democratization of a formerly secretive economic sphere. Contesting this idea, I argue that such data is collected, controlled, and disseminated by international art dealers ...
Kathryn Brown
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Epistemic authority in the digital public sphere. An integrative conceptual framework and research agenda

open access: yesCommunication Theory
We develop an integrative conceptual framework and research agenda for studying epistemic authorities in the digital age. Consulting epistemic authorities (e.g., professional experts, well-informed laypeople, technologies) can be an efficient fast ...
Anne Bartsch   +8 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Authority as epistemic capital [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Political Power, 2018
The article proposes that authority denotes an actor’s appeals or other references to objects or facts that she expects others to respect or fear.
openaire   +2 more sources

Authority, Authenticity, and the Epistemic Legacies of Cold War Area Studies

open access: yesAspasia, 2023
This article examines the history of knowledge production about the former Eastern Bloc in the American and Polish academic contexts. It explores how debates about authority and authenticity are embedded in the deeper histories of area studies and in ...
Kristen Ghodsee, Agnieszka Mrozik
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Participatory Designs and Epistemic Authority in Knowledge Platforms for Sustainability

open access: yesGlobal Environmental Politics, 2020
Expert organizations increasingly adopt participatory strategies to strengthen their knowledge claims. We introduce the notion of knowledge platforms for sustainability to conceptualize expert organizations that not only rhetorically embrace but also ...
Alejandro Esguerra, Sandra van der Hel
semanticscholar   +1 more source

The Future of Research in Cognitive Robotics: Foundation Models or Developmental Cognitive Models?

open access: yesAdvanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.
Research in cognitive robotics founded on principles of developmental psychology and enactive cognitive science would yield what we seek in autonomous robots: the ability to perceive its environment, learn from experience, anticipate the outcome of events, act to pursue goals, and adapt to changing circumstances without resorting to training with ...
David Vernon
wiley   +1 more source

Facts, values, and the epistemic authority of journalism: How journalists use and define the terms fake news, junk news, misinformation, and disinformation

open access: yesNordicom Review
In this article, we examine how journalists try to uphold ideals of objectivity, clarity, and epistemic authority when using four overlapping terms: fake news, junk news, misinformation, and disinformation.
Johan Farkas, Sabina Schousboe
semanticscholar   +1 more source

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