What is it about?
Peoples’ increasing reliance on Internet technologies like search engines raises serious concerns about the justificatory status of the beliefs they end up forming because the technologies’ modes of operation are concealed from their users.
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Why is it important?
This project intervenes in both traditional and social epistemology, complicating extant accounts by explicitly examining technologies that enable people to gain information and make choices.
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This page is a summary of: JUSTIFIED BELIEF IN A DIGITAL AGE: ON THE EPISTEMIC IMPLICATIONS OF SECRET INTERNET TECHNOLOGIES, Episteme, May 2013, Cambridge University Press,
DOI: 10.1017/epi.2013.11.
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Resources
Thoughts on Filter Bubbles - The Bubble Chamber
Philosopher Mike Thicke discusses the epistemic effects of "filter bubbles" (Eli Pariser).
The Internet Observer Effect - The Bubble Chamber
Philosopher Mike Thicke asks: how does my search behaviour affect the search results of others—or more broadly, how does my behaviour on the internet affect the epistemic landscape of others?
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