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This book engages with post-truth as a problem of societal order and for scholarly analysis. It claims that post-truth discourse is more deeply entangled with main Western imaginations of knowledge societies than commonly recognised. Scholarly responses to post-truth have not fully addressed these entanglements, treating them either as something to be morally condemned, or as accusations against which scholars have to defend themselves (for having somehow contributed to it). Aiming for wider problematisations, the authors of this book use post-truth to open scholarly and societal assumptions to critical scrutiny. Contributions are both conceptual and empirical, dealing with topics such as: the role of truth in public; deep penetrations of ICTs into main societal institutions; the politics of time in neoliberalism; shifting boundaries between fact - value, politics - science, nature - culture; and the importance of critique for public truth-telling. Case studies range from the politics of nuclear power and election meddling in the UK, over smart technologies and techno-regulation in Europe, to renewables in Australia. The book ends where the Corona Story begins: as intensifications of Modernity's complex dynamics, requiring new starting points for critique.

Intro -- Table of Contents -- Epigraph -- Dedication -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Acknowledgments -- Author's Note -- Introduction: Why Digital Labor Now? -- About This Book -- The Digital Labor Conferences -- Notes -- Part I -- 1: Waged Labor and the End of Employment -- 1) Toward a Typology of Digital Labor -- Overview -- 2) Crowdsourcing: All Together Now! -- 3) Digital Labor in the Shadows: Amazon Mechanical Turk (AMT) -- 4) The Ecosystem of Compensated Digital Labor -- 5) Ethical Crowdwork? MobileWorks and Samasource -- 6) Content Farming -- 7) Competitive Crowdsourcing -- 8) User-led Innovation -- 9) In-game Labor -- 10) Online Labor Brokerages -- 11) On-demand Labor -- 12) Online Assistance -- 13) Conclusion -- Notes -- 2: Playbor and Other Unpaid Pursuits -- Overview -- 1) Data Labor -- 2) The Development of an Ecosystem of Digital Work -- 3) The Performance of Self -- 4) Free Labor is not the Problem -- 5) Hybrid Public/Private Business Models -- 6) Hope Labor -- 7) Gamification -- 8) Fan Labor -- 9) Universal Basic Income -- Notes -- 3: Vocabulary -- Overview -- 1) The Myth of Immateriality -- 2) Work vs. Labor -- 3) The Fence Around the Produser Factory -- 4) Against a Surrender of the Language of Labor -- Notes -- 4: Crowd Fleecing -- Chapter Overview and Omissions -- 1) Is This Still Exploitation? -- 2) The Living Museum of Human Exploitation -- 3) Crowd Fleecing -- 4) Historical Context -- 5) Sleep as a Site of Crisis -- Notes -- Part II -- 5: Legal Gray Zones -- Overview -- 1) What is the Holdback for Regulators? -- 2) Independent Contractors, Employees, or What? -- 3) Widening the Definition of Employment -- 4) Lawsuits by Workers -- 5) Toward a Living Wage -- 6) Toward a Bill of Rights for All Platform Workers -- 7) The French Internet Tax Proposal -- Notes -- 6: On Selective Engagement.

Anthropology lies at the heart of the human sciences, tackling questions having to do with the foundations, ethics, and deployment of the knowledge crucial to human lives. The Ethics of Knowledge Creation focuses on how knowledge is relationally created, how local knowledge can be transmuted into 'universal knowledge', and how the transaction and consumption of knowledge also monitors its subsequent production. This volume examines the ethical implications of various kinds of relations that are created in the process of 'transacting knowledge' and investigates how these transactions are also situated according to broader contradictions or synergies between ethical, epistemological, and political concerns.

Introduction: parades, flags, and national pride -- Vexed links: perspectives on nationalism, the state, and modernity -- Fraught legacies: nationalism, colonialism, and race -- Redoubtable essences: nationalisms and genders -- Checking (homo) sexualities at the nation's door: nationalisms and sexualities -- In the name of God, community, and country: nationalisms, ethnicity, and religion -- Conclusion: speculations on the future of nationalisms.

Across the world, there has been a growing dissatisfaction with the tempo of modern life. Described simply as the 'slow phenomenon', this volume explores this new brand of living that entails not simply slowing down but an embracing of alternative activities that promote meaning, thoughtfulness, engagement and authenticity

How are global forces impacting on local lifestyles? Where does the personal stand in relation to globalization? Global Forces and Local Life-Worlds explores these questions using a mixture of sociological and anthropological analysis and case study methods. Demonstrating the tensions between retaining cultural integrity in the face of the levelling processes associated with modernity, this book: locates the problems of globalization and localization in the appropriate anthropological and sociological dimensions; examines the relationship between culture and identity; and explores the varieties of modernity.

In the spirit of Alvin Toffler's acclaimed works peering into the future of the technological society, Communication Shock is a concise history of communication technologies and an exploration of the possible social and human impacts of nanotechnology on the ecology of human communication. As we become increasingly more networked with communication technologies, we must come to understand and confront the social impact of these changes. More importantly, we must wisely choose in embracing or rejecting these technologies and exploring how we might do both by striking an appropriate balance.Grou

"This unique textbook explores the complex topic of social class, explaining the many psychological nuances of class and classism in people's lives as subjective and phenomenological experiences. Social class can be a deeply personal, complicated topic that is often frustrating and uncomfortable to discuss, and as such has often been a blind spot in teaching and academic literature. For the first time, Noonan and Liu look to address this in one comprehensive text, using a combination of first-person narratives, academic approaches to class, and psychology's contributions to the subject. Across seven chapters, the book introduces a highly accessible theoretical model of the psychology of social class, Liu's own Social Class Worldview Model (SCWM-R). Using vivid autobiographical texts to bring the theoretical model to life, the authors show how our worldviews develop through interactions with our social class and economic environment, and provide a unique array of methods and skillsets to help incorporate the model into teaching. Each section of the book guides the reader through core concepts in the area, from socioeconomic factors, social structures, poverty, race, racism, White privilege, and White supremacy. Featuring activity suggestions, discussion questions, and writing prompts to help apply theory to real-life narratives, this is the ideal resource for students and instructors across psychology, sociology, health economics, and social work, as well as anyone taking courses on examining social class"--

An argument that what makes science distinctive is its emphasis on evidence and scientists' willingness to change theories on the basis of new evidence. Attacks on science have become commonplace. Claims that climate change isn't settled science, that evolution is "only a theory," and that scientists are conspiring to keep the truth about vaccines from the public are staples of some politicians' rhetorical repertoire. Defenders of science often point to its discoveries (penicillin! relativity!) without explaining exactly why scientific claims are superior. In this book, Lee McIntyre argues that what distinguishes science from its rivals is what he calls "the scientific attitude"--caring about evidence and being willing to change theories on the basis of new evidence. The history of science is littered with theories that were scientific but turned out to be wrong; the scientific attitude reveals why even a failed theory can help us to understand what is special about science. McIntyre offers examples that illustrate both scientific success (a reduction in childbed fever in the nineteenth century) and failure (the flawed "discovery" of cold fusion in the twentieth century). He describes the transformation of medicine from a practice based largely on hunches into a science based on evidence; considers scientific fraud; examines the positions of ideology-driven denialists, pseudoscientists, and "skeptics" who reject scientific findings; and argues that social science, no less than natural science, should embrace the scientific attitude. McIntyre argues that the scientific attitude--the grounding of science in evidence--offers a uniquely powerful tool in the defense of science.

ABSTRACT  Here I detail violence in South Sudan by first discussing a specific Dinka Agaar practice alongside existing discourses on the social aspects of violence and universal human rights, then I show how these acts had meaning and purpose using data from personal accounts of violence. I posit that the violence described was consistent with Dinka Agaar concepts of justice and basic human rights and that it cannot be judged against any universal human rights standard, devoid of local context or of an overarching metanarrative. These events highlight conflicting subjectivities, ethical norms, and the painful difficulties inherent to advocacy in areas of conflict. Viewed from the perspective of the larger social unit, it is easy to see how violence was required to end violence. However, witnessing punitive violence purposefully enacted on innocent individuals to achieve peace has the potential to create conflicting positions that modern anthropological discourse cannot reconcile.