Knowledge Resistance in High-Choice Information Environments

• Other Authors: Strömbäck, Jesper (Editor), Wikforss, Åsa (Editor), Glüer, Kathrin (Editor), Lindholm, Torun (Editor), Oscarsson, Henrik (Editor)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Taylor & Francis 2022
• Series: Routledge Studies in Media, Communication, and Politics
• Subjects: Communication studies; Social & political philosophy; Civil rights & citizenship; Conspiracy theories; affective polarization; anti-vaxx; attitudes; attitude-consistent information; attitude-discrepant Information; beliefs attitudes knowledge; biased information processing; citizens as co-producers of information; citizens as disseminators of information; citizens as media consumers; citizen knowledge motivated reasoning fact-checking; climate change; climate change denial; cognition; cognitive ability; cognitive dissonance knowledge resistance; cognitive dissonance political polarization; communication; communication knowledge resistance; confirmation bias knowledge resistance; confirmation bias political polarization; conspiracies; conspiracy theories; conspiracy theorists; contemporary high-choice media environments; contradictory information; counteracting knowledge resistance; credibility perceptions knowledge resistance; death of expertise; denying expert authority
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