Selective Permeability, Social Media and Epistemic Fragmentation.
This article examines epistemic impacts of social media, merging Gibson's affordance theory with the notion of selective permeability, which holds people encounter objective differences in a setting because of their distinct capacities, only here applying the idea to online spaces. I start by circum...
| Publicado en: | Topoi: An International Review of Philosophy Vol. 43; no. 5; pp. 1451 - 1466 |
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Dec2024
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