Weekly Reading (2021/03/07)
Selections from the Web:
- Alex Pareene: Why Are Troops Leading the Vaccination Effort?
- Jake Offenhartz: Cuomo Comforted Them During COVID. Now They See A Conspiracy To Destroy Him
- John Timmer: Atlantic Currents Aeem to have Atarted Fading Last Century
- Peter S. Goodman, Alexandra Stevenson, Niraj Chokshi and Michael Corkery: ‘I’ve Never Seen Anything Like This’: Chaos Strikes Global Shipping
- Pooja Bhatia: The End of the Plantocracy
Books and Journal Articles:
Books:
- Christopher Lasch: The Revolt of the Elites and the Betrayal of Democracy (1995). ISBN: 0393313719
Journal Articles and Chapters:
- C. W. Anderson: “Fake News Is Not a Virus: On Platforms and Their Effects,” Communication Theory, (2020)
- Eran Fisher and Yoav Mehozay: “How Algorithms See Their Audience: Media Epistemes and the Changing Conception of the Individual,” Media, Culture & Society, (2019)
- Eric Schwitzgebel: “If Materialism Is True, the United States Is Probably Conscious,” Philosophical Studies, (2014)
- Noortje Marres: “Why We Can’t Have Our Facts Back,” Engaging Science, Technology, and Society, (2018)