TY - BOOK AU - Str�mb�ck,Jesper AU - Gl�er,Kathrin AU - Gl�er,Kathrin AU - Lindholm,Torun AU - Lindholm,Torun AU - Oscarsson,Henrik AU - Oscarsson,Henrik AU - Str�mb�ck,Jesper AU - Wikforss,�sa AU - Wikforss,�sa TI - Knowledge Resistance in High-Choice Information Environments T2 - Routledge Studies in Media, Communication, and Politics SN - 9780367629250 PY - 2022/// PB - Taylor & Francis KW - Civil rights & citizenship KW - bicssc KW - Communication studies KW - Conspiracy theories KW - Social & political philosophy KW - affective polarization KW - anti-vaxx KW - attitude-consistent information KW - attitude-discrepant Information KW - attitudes KW - beliefs attitudes knowledge KW - biased information processing KW - citizen knowledge motivated reasoning fact-checking KW - citizens as co-producers of information KW - citizens as disseminators of information KW - citizens as media consumers KW - climate change KW - climate change denial KW - cognition KW - cognitive ability KW - cognitive dissonance knowledge resistance KW - cognitive dissonance political polarization KW - communication KW - communication knowledge resistance KW - confirmation bias knowledge resistance KW - confirmation bias political polarization KW - conspiracies KW - conspiracy theories KW - conspiracy theorists KW - contemporary high-choice media environments KW - contradictory information KW - counteracting knowledge resistance KW - credibility perceptions knowledge resistance KW - death of expertise KW - denying expert authority N1 - Open Access N2 - This book offers a truly interdisciplinary exploration of our patterns of engagement with politics, news, and information in current high-choice information environments. Putting forth the notion that high-choice information environments may contribute to increasing misperceptions and knowledge resistance rather than greater public knowledge, the book offers insights into the processes that influence the supply of misinformation and factors influencing how and why people expose themselves to and process information that may support or contradict their beliefs and attitudes. A team of authors from across a range of disciplines address the phenomena of knowledge resistance and its causes and consequences at the macro- as well as the micro-level. The chapters take a philosophical look at the notion of knowledge resistance, before moving on to discuss issues such as misinformation and fake news, psychological mechanisms such as motivated reasoning in processes of selective exposure and attention, how people respond to evidence and fact-checking, the role of political partisanship, political polarization over factual beliefs, and how knowledge resistance might be counteracted. This book will have a broad appeal to scholars and students interested in knowledge resistance, primarily within philosophy, psychology, media and communication, and political science, as well as journalists and policymakers UR - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/id/b5a7538a-f752-4bef-bf35-aa97f9158df7/9781000599121.pdf UR - https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/54482 ER -