[Air-L] New open access book: Epistemic Rights in the Era of Digital Disruption

[Minna Aslama]

Dear Colleagues,

This new open-access volume may interest you:
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

-- 
Dr. Minna Aslama Horowitz
@aslama
https://minnahorowitz.net/