POLI 2030 Lecture : Civic Engagement - Lecture 10
Document Summary
Determine the truth about factual aspects of politics engaged periodically. They might vote in elections, attend the occasional town meeting, or work through other mediating institutions to pick leaders: epistemic political efficacy (epe)-confidence in one"s own ability to. Blur: how to know what"s true in the age of information overload. Info overload redefines what we mean by the idea of citizenship. The old idea, operating for the past three hundred years, was that people or monitor government. : today, rather than relying on the press, congress, or other social authorities themselves from a competing array of sources. We are all assuming more control over what we know about the world gatekeepers, our own aggregators. The way of skeptical knowing : to filter information for them, citizens increasingly will filter information for beyond our direct experience. We are becoming our own editors, our own. Assessing the evidence: fallacy of evil men , ad hominem attack, alternative reality explanations.
