Digitale Märkte und Öffentlichkeiten auf Plattformen

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Auflistung Digitale Märkte und Öffentlichkeiten auf Plattformen nach Autor:in "Bartsch, Anne"

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    Epistemic authority in the digital public sphere. An integrative conceptual framework and research agenda
    (2025) Bartsch, Anne; Neuberger, Christoph; Stark, Birgit; Karnowski, Veronika; Maurer, Marcus; Pentzold, Christian; Quandt, Thorsten; Quiring, Oliver; Schemer, Christian
    We develop an integrative conceptual framework and research agenda for studying epistemic authorities in the digital age. Consulting epistemic authorities (e.g., professional experts, well-informed laypeople, technologies) can be an efficient fast-track to knowledge. To fulfill this functional role, those who claim epistemic authority need to be both subjectively recognized (have a perceived advantage in knowledge) and objectively justified (have an actual advantage in knowledge). In a digital media context, new and unconventional knowledge sources have emerged that can fulfill the functional role of epistemic authorities. But false authorities that disseminate misinformation have emerged as well while other sources with important knowledge remain unrecognized. We further analyze the functional role of epistemic intermediaries that can mitigate such problematic developments by correcting false authorities and by providing endorsement for unrecognized authorities. We conclude with a research agenda to study functional forms of epistemic authorities and epistemic intermediaries in the digital public sphere.
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    The digital transformation of knowledge order: a model for the analysis of the epistemic crisis
    (2023) Neuberger, Christoph; Bartsch, Anne; Fröhlich, Romy; Hanitzsch, Thomas; Reinemann, Carsten; Schindler, Johanna
    In a proclaimed age of ‘post-truth,’ scholars have raised concerns about the spread of false information and the questioning of epistemic authorities. In this paper, we develop an analytical model to capture the digital transformation of knowledge order. Drawing on insights from social epistemology, sociology and history of knowledge, and media history, we identify epistemic practices as basic elements of knowledge order. We then analyze how epistemic practices are organized into an overarching structure of knowledge phases, contexts, roles, and hierarchies. Digital media tend to destabilize the traditional knowledge order. This destabilization is characterized by a more flexible order of phases, a dissolution of boundaries between contexts, an opening of professional roles to new actors, and a flattening of hierarchies.