Speaking Power to Truth: Digital Discourse and the Public Intellectual

• Hlavní autor: Edited by Michael Keren and Richard Hawkins (auth)
• Médium: Elektronický zdroj Kapitola
• Jazyk: angličtina
• Vydáno: Athabasca University Press 2015
• Edice: Cultural Dialectics
• Témata: social policy; social values; media studies; journalists; climate science; internet; climate change; journalism
• On-line přístup: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

Online discourse has created a new media environment for contributions to public life, one that challenges the social significance of the role of public intellectuals-intellectuals who, whether by choice or by circumstance, offer commentary on issues of the day. The value of such commentary is roote...