Organized Skepticism in the Age of Misinformation: Surviving the Kingdom of Gossip

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Brett Bourbon Renita Murimi

Organized Skepticism in the Age of Misinformation

Surviving the Kingdom of Gossip

Brett Bourbon, Renita Murimi

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CRC Press
12 March 2025

Communication studies; Ethical & social aspects of computing; Legal aspects of computing; Internet browsers; Computer science

Drawing from philosophy, information theory, and network science, Organized Skepticism in the Age of Misinformation: Surviving the Kingdom of Gossip offers a novel conceptual framework that views information as a form of gossip.

This book challenges the idea that truthfulness is a necessary, or even a relevant condition, of information. Instead, this book develops a conceptual framework in which information is understood as gossip, which fits within a more general account of information and knowledge as constrained but contingent social practices. Using this framework, this book provides a nuanced understanding of the “grammar” of gossip that permeates both online and real‑orld environments and sheds light on the often overused and confused terms of our time: information, misinformation and knowledge.

This book offers a fundamental reconfiguration of the evolving virtual interdependence of humans and information technology. It is a key resource for students and scholars in areas relating to social media, information diffusion, human/computer interface, and computational social science.

By: Brett Bourbon, Renita Murimi
Imprint: CRC Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
ISBN: 9781032513218
ISBN 10: 1032513217
Pages: 232
Publication Date: 12 March 2025
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming

Brett Bourbon is Professor of English Literature at the University of Dallas. He is also a Visiting Professor in The Program of Literary Theory, University of Lisbon. He received his Ph.D. from Harvard, and was a professor at Stanford. He was awarded a Mellon post-doctoral fellowship and a Fulbright Award. He has published many essays and four books, including Finding a Replacement for the Soul: meaning and mind in literature and philosophy (Harvard UP, 2004), Everyday Poetics: Ethics, Love, and Logic (Bloomsbury Press, 2022), Jane Austen And the Ethics of Life (Routledge Press, 2022), and Thinking with Words: A Literary Groundwork (with Miguel Tamen) (Routledge Press, Forthcoming 2024). Renita Murimi is an Associate Professor of Cybersecurity at the University of Dallas. She received her PhD and MS in Electrical Engineering from New Jersey Institute of Technology. Her research interests are in the areas of cybersecurity and network science. She has received the Melinda Gates Foundation’s Grand Challenges Exploration grant. Her research has been widely published in journals, book chapters and conference proceedings. She is also the author of an upcoming book titled Ten Modern Cryptographic Algorithms (Forthcoming, No Starch Press).