Infostorms (eBook)

Vincent F. Hendricks is Professor of Formal Philosophy at The University of Copenhagen. He is Director of the Center for Information and Bubble Studies (CIBS) sponsored by the Carlsberg Foundation and was awarded the Elite Research Prize by the Danish Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation and the Roskilde Festival Elite Research Prize both in 2008. He was Editor-in-Chief of Synthese: An International Journal for Epistemology, Methodology and Philosophy of Science between 2005-2015.Pelle Guldborg Hansen is Behavioral Researcher at Roskilde University; Director of ISSP — The Initiative of Science, Society & Policy at Roskilde University and University of Southern Denmark; and member of the Prevention Council of the Danish Diabetes Association. He also heads the independent research group iNudgeYou and is chairman of the Danish Nudging Network and co-founder of TEN — The European Nudge Network.

Chapter 1: Off We Go1.1 Social Psychology on Speed1.2 Information vs. Knowledge 1.3 Side-Tracking and Manipulation1.4 Individual Search and Social Proof1.5 Parts and Parcels Part 1: How Information Technologies May Amplify Irrational Group
Behavoir  Chapter 2: Common Knowledge and Public Space2.1 The Day Public Space Sold Out2.2 More than the Opposite of Private2.3 Public Announcements and Infinite Knowledge2.4 Notions of Group Knowledge2.5 Public Space as a Fundamental Informational Structure2.6 The Social Power of Public Space2.7 Techno-Ideological Pickets2.8 Public Space and Online Status Chapter 3: Pluralistic Ignorance and Bystanders 3.1 Computer City3.2 Today’s Lesson: Pluralistic Ignorance3.3 Pluralistic Ignorance and the Bystander Effect3.4 The Recipe for Bystander-Effects3.5 Cyber Bullying – The Case of Amanda Todd3.6 The Frailty of Ignorance Chapter 4: Informational Cascades and Lemmings4.1 Air France, Delta Airlines and Terminals4.2 Amazon and Sex and the City4.3 The Nuts And Bolts of Cascades4.4 Status Economics4.5 A Decisive Piece of Information4.6 True Disciples and Disbelievers4.7 Infostorms in a Connected World Part Ii: Why Free Choice, Markets and Deliberation Cannot Protect Us Chapter 5: Choice: Framing Choice5.1 "Like" It or Not?5.2 Framing Approval5.3 Choosing Between Life and Death5.4 Framing a Problem5.5 Risky Insurance5.6 Fumbles in Frames5.7 Information in a New Key5.8 The Art of Framing Democracy Chapter 6: Markets: Choosing Frames 6.1 The Invisible Hands of Democracy6.2 Positive Freedom6.3 The Relevance of Self-Determination6.4 Political Freedom and Individual Choice6.5 Walking the Dog at Night6.6 Individual Choice and Climate Negotiations6.7 Market Competition and Tour De France6.8 Ulysses and the Song of the Sirens Chapter 7: Deliberation: Polarized People7.1. Trouble Either Way7.2 Deliberating to the Extreme7.3 Gnomes and People Like Us7.4 The Brass Tacks of Polarization7.5 I Want To Be Just Like You All7.6 Group Polarization and Individual Marginalization7.7 I Can’t Read You Online7.8 Dissolving Divarication7.9 Deliberative Democratic Systems7.10 Echo Chambers and Stomping Grounds7.11 Deaf, Blind and Mute Chapter 8: The Constitutive Games We Play8.1 Decision Frames8.2 Blood Money8.3 Inferring Micro-Motives from Macro-Behavior8.4 Riots and Ghettos8.5 Why Democracy is not just ‘One Vote’8.6 Mistaking Society for a Company Part 3: Wars, Bubbles and Democracy Chapter 9: Wars 9.1 Just Another Day at the Office9.2 Quicksand at the Bus Stop9.3 The Logic of Death Tolls9.4 Taking a Hammering at the Auction9.5 A Lemon Market for Apples9.6 Zombies in Vegas9.7 Escaping the One-Armed Bandit in Afghanistan9.8 In the Pocket of Taliban Chapter 10: Bubbles10.1 Bubble Trouble10.2 Bubble Sorts10.3 Science Bubbles10.4 Status Bubbles10.5. Enough About Me, What About You, What Do You Think Of Me?10.6 What Is It With "Likes"?10.7 Opinion in Excess10.8 Opinion on The Market10.9 Noise Traders and Noisemakers10.10 Bubble-Hospitable Environments Chapter 11: Democracy11.1 Taking Stock11.2 Yesterday’s Democracy11.3 "That's Just Unacceptable!"11.4 Post-Factual Democracy11.5 True Democracy11.6 Democracy in the Process11.7 Macro- and Micro Control Problems11.8 Short Summary  Part 4: Postscript: The Social Power Of Information Architecture  Chapter 12: The Social Powers of Infostorms12.1 Iran’s Twitter Revolution12.2 The Arab Spring of Infostorms12.3 Peep Shows and Revolutions At $9.9912.4 The Golden Shield and the Great Wall of Fire12.5 Stabilizing Forces of Quasi-Democracies12.6 The Western Puzzle of Truth and Information12.7 The Gatekeepers of Truth and Information Architects









































































































































































































































































12.8 The Art and Science of Information Architecture