Epistemic Injustice
Year: 2017
Type: book-chapter
Abstract: One of the major cognitive, social and epistemic revolutions of the last 20 years is the massive immersion of our cognitive life in digital environments. The transition to an Internet-mediated society of knowledge poses new challenges to epistemology. This chapter provides a different perspective on epistemic injustice, by applying it to the context of human/ICT interactions. New technologies may be a source of epistemic harm by depriving people of their credibility about themselves. Given the lack of control over the identities we produce by interacting on the web, the fast development of data-mining techniques to track our actions and predict our behaviours harms our capacity of making sense of ourselves and our control on our self-knowledge. This results in new forms of hermeneutical and testimonial injustice. The forms of injustice we analyse here are essentially epistemic: they harm us in our capacity for knowledge and self-knowledge and make us less credible as witnesses of our own lives.
Source: Routledge eBooks
Authors: Gloria Origgi, Serena Ciranna
Language: English
Subfield: Sociology and Political Science
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W3113832854