Marketplace Of Ideas Research Articles

Decolonizing Minds and Education: Critical Pedagogy and Epistemic Disobedience in Kurdistan

This article examines the intricacies involved in the process of decolonizing education. It draws on the author's first-hand teaching experiences and observations as an activist scholar and a critical pedagogue at Bingöl University in Turkey from 2013 to 2016, during a period marked by intense political tension between security forces and Kurdish insurgencies. It elucidates a transformative pedagogical endeavor aimed at decolonizing education, with a particular focus on Kurdish students who endure colonial domination and oppression. Grounded in critical pedagogy, border thinking, and the principles of epistemic disobedience, this intervention represents a deliberate departure from traditional educational paradigms. It endeavors to cultivate a more inclusive and liberatory learning environment by drawing on theoretical frameworks articulated by renowned scholars such as Freire, Fanon, Mignolo, and Illich. At its core, this endeavor seeks to transcend the conventional boundaries of education by fostering critical consciousness, agency, and alternative worldviews among marginalized communities. Through prioritizing interactive dialogue, problem-posing educational models, and participatory learning practices, the initiative empowers students to critically engage with their social, historical, and cultural contexts. Employing innovative pedagogical strategies like the marketplace of ideas and extracurricular reading groups, students are encouraged to reclaim their own forms of knowledge and challenge hegemonic narratives perpetuated by colonial structures. This initiative underscores the transformative potential of education in dismantling oppressive structures and fostering alternative visions of social change. By amplifying the voices of marginalized communities, the intervention not only challenges the status quo but also lays the groundwork for a more equitable and emancipatory educational landscape.

사상의 자유시장 이론과 플랫폼 거버넌스

The concept of ‘marketplace of ideas’ has been employed as a conventional argument to justify freedom of expression. The Constitutional Court of Korea has also been significantly influenced by this concept, presenting it as a rationale to protect freedom of expression and asserting that “the Internet is the medium most closely approximating the ‘marketplace of ideas’”. However, the proliferation of disinformation, hate speech, and the development of artificial intelligence have urged a re-evaluation of the validity of the ‘marketplace of ideas’, which posits that truth can prevail over falsehoods through unrestricted competition. ‘Marketplace of ideas’, which is advocated from a laissez-faire perspective, also encounters challenges related to market failure when examined from an economic perspective. This phenomenon occurs because market failure is not limited to the market for goods but extends to the market for ideas as well. In the context of freedom of expression, market failure can result in impediments to information distribution, insufficient dissemination of high-quality information, and democratic representation. To address market failure in the realm of free expression, it is imperative to focus on platform governance. In the United States, self-regulation by individual companies or industries, and in Europe, co-regulation by governments, have been proposed as potential solutions to market failure. The divergence between the US and European approaches to platform governance stems from the distinct constitutional traditions of freedom of expression. While platform governance mechanisms, such as self-regulation and co-regulation, offer advantages including flexibility, expedience, and professionalism, they may also generate tensions with the rule of law and potentially result in private censorship when limiting fundamental rights. To ensure the democratic legitimacy of self-regulation, limitations on freedom of expression must be implemented in a manner consistent with the rule of law. Furthermore, to prevent co-regulation from devolving into private censorship, considerable caution must be exercised to ensure that government intervention does not transform into censorship by administrative authority.

Reading Twitter as a marketplace of ideas: how attitudes to COVID-19 are affecting attitudes to migrants in Ireland

Abstract Attitudes to language and attitudes to ethnic groups have long been shown to be related to one another. In recent history, significant events have also been shown to negatively affect attitudes to specific groups who are deemed to be responsible. The current paper looks at how the COVID-19 pandemic has emboldened those who hold far right attitudes to migrants in an Irish context. Through a Twitter scraping exercise, conducted in August 2020, we show that far right framings of migrants as (a) contagion or disease, (b) criminals, and (c) favoured or elites are clearly evident and considerably on the rise in these Irish data. This would seem to run contrary to a concurrent study in Germany. Thus, we then pair this quantitative Twitter data with qualitative observations of anti-mask protests as indicative of a broadening of the allure of far right political groups, with COVID-19 as the “leading edge”. Taken together, these data seem to run contrary to European Social Survey and comparative data, leading us to question how attitudes are elicited, measured, and reported.

Marketplace of Ideas - Using Microblogging as a Platform for Polite Discourse

Marketplace of Ideas - Using Microblogging as a Platform for Polite Discourse

Competition and Cognition in the Market for Online News

ABSTRACT Does it pay to appear unbiased in an attention-based economy where bias sells? We study this question in light of increased consumer partisan polarization and biases alongside greater technology usage and partisanship in journalism. Using a game-theoretic framework that captures the essential properties of the online news market, we show that polarization with biases may constrain neutral and partisan news websites’ engagement-enhancing strategies differently; and online news providers can strategically exploit consumer perceptions to maximize engagement-driven revenues. Our analysis suggests that neutral news outlets depend on polarization imbalance and perceptions of neutrality. Moreover, increased search costs and consumer bias toward partisan outlets can lessen the echo chamber effect in online news consumption. Our work advances discussions on online news neutrality, providing fresh insights into the “marketplace of ideas” view and source versus content neutrality in the face of increasing affective polarization.

Rethinking Social Media Ethics in Nigeria

With the coming on board of citizen journalism, the newsroom ethics have become obsolete to accommodate the growing spectrum of the technologically driven new media structure despite the fact that social media have become relevant in information dissemination in the market place of ideas. This study which adopts a qualitative research approach interrogates the zero new media ethics in Nigeria; investigates the implications of lack of new media ethics in Nigeria’s media practice; and evaluates the direction of new media content in Nigeria. Built on Scanlon’s contractual theory, the paper found out that the zero new media ethics challenge is a global phenomenon and that the situation has paved way for fierce censorship measures on both the mainstream and social media structures in the country. The study recommends that a comprehensive new media ethic be fashioned out by the appropriate stakeholders in the media industry to address the abysmal scenario.

ChatGPT as the Marketplace of Ideas

ChatGPT as the Marketplace of Ideas

Rosa del Olmo Prize: Introductory Essay

Academic prizes have three problems: they feed an individualist ethos, perpetuate the idea of the ‘marketplace of ideas’ as a fair and even playing field, and build a stereotype of white, Western men as the ultimate knowledge creators. However, prizes can also challenge stereotypes and help democratise knowledge creation by enlarging the visibility of communitarian knowledge creation beyond Western scripts and outside hegemonic masculinities. The International Journal for Crime, Justice, and Social Democracy, committed to cognitive justice, knowledge democratisation, and encouraging voices on the periphery to partake in global academic debate, established the Rosa del Olmo Prize. Seeking to challenge criminological stereotypes about who can create knowledge that contributes to the development of criminology, the Journal honours Venezuelan criminologist Rosa del Olmo (1937-2000) through this award. Rosa symbolises critical, feminist, decolonial criminology working to advance social justice.

Woman’s Era : A Catalyst for Literary Activism and the Social Evolution of Nineteenth-Century Black Clubwomen

Abstract: By the late nineteenth century, Black women used poetry, short stories, novels, and nonfiction to confront a white, patriarchal society and protest the lynchings of Black people and voting disenfranchisement of Black women. Woman’s Era became the first periodical written by and for Black women, which preserved a piece of intellectual strategy as elite Black clubwomen’s marketplace of ideas. This article explores the contributions of Woman’s Era , which also was the first to integrate into one journal various literary forms, thereby lending credence globally to many voices regularly overlooked by the white and male-dominated Black press. Their writings were a form of literary activism helping to legitimize Black women as change agents who fought socially and politically for their communities and collective rights as enfranchised citizens. This article complements the historical canon about Black clubwomen’s social and political contributions through literary interventions in their communities, states, nation, and the world.

Masterful scholarly competences and the development of impactful B2B marketing theory: Contributions of Dr. Shelby D. Hunt

Academia has been described as a marketplace of ideas, whereby scholars compete to establish thought leadership via publication of their work in top journals of their disciplines. Within the bazaar of B2B marketing scholarship, few scholars generated as deep an impact as the late Shelby D. Hunt. In this manuscript, we adapt R-A Theory to the context of the academic publishing enterprise. Based on Dr. Hunt's retrospective writings and personal perspectives shared by his collaborators, we identify critical basic resources and higher-order competences underlying the success of Dr. Hunt's ideation, development, and promotion of impactful B2B theories. Next, we illustrate how his deployment of three scholarly competences - opportunity recognition, theory development, and theory retailing - contributed to the success of his Commitment-Trust and RA theory programs. The paper closes with a discussion of key lessons scholars and the academy can draw in crafting new indigenous marketing theories.

Specialization in the marketplace for ideas.

Organizations that compete for attention in the marketplace face a strategic decision: whether to target a specialized niche or diversify to reach a broader market. Previous research has extensively analyzed the specialization dilemma faced by for-profit firms. We extend the analysis to knowledge-sharing groups in the marketplace of ideas. Using data on over 1,500 technology groups collected from an online event-organizing platform over a fifteen-year period, we measure the effect of topical focus, rarity, novelty, and technical exclusivity on audience growth, retention, and sustained engagement. We find that knowledge-sharing groups benefit marginally by specializing in rare topics but not in new topics. The strongest predictor of growth and survival is whether the group is associated with technically sophisticated topics, regardless of the breadth of focus, even though technical topics are less widely accessible. We conclude that what matters is not how specialized the organization, but how the organization is specialized.

Ushering in an age of scientific principles for communication research

Abstract Communication seeks internal coherence and external distinction as its research profile grows and diversifies. The present essay calls for the establishment of scientific principles to guide future communication research and solidify the field’s unique scholarly identity within the marketplace of ideas. An argument is made that the field has achieved the necessary foundations to establish scientific principles but has yet to embrace this undertaking as a collective goal. This offering is intended as an initial foray into the process of identifying and evaluating scientific principles of communication by considering the value of these fundamental pillars for the field’s maturation. It proposes evaluation criteria which are then applied in a rendering of two candidate principles. These observations aim to initiate a broader conversation and spark a collective effort toward elucidating scientific principles of communication that can help to guide and anchor the field in its next stage of knowledge generation.

Stability and disruptive speech

Stability and disruptive speech

Editor’s Introduction to JPE Micro

Editor’s Introduction to <i>JPE Micro</i>

§230 and Tinfoil Hats: What Conspiracy Theories Teach Us About the Marketplace of Ideas and Online Speech

§230 and Tinfoil Hats: What Conspiracy Theories Teach Us About the Marketplace of Ideas and Online Speech

ONLINE NEWS STORIES ON THE 2022 PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES

News being factual and trustworthy is one of the most reliable information. Facts must be interpreted carefully to influence or inform readers rightly and not be victimized by false information. With the presence of COVID 19 pandemic, online news has extended the reach of news making it accessible to many users. Certainly, online news becomes an important news source for many people specifically those who are not fully engaged in watching television. However, with this greater reach comes greater responsibility to report fair and truthful information since it penetrates in the marketplace of ideas. This study used qualitative approach through content analysis to analyze the online news stories. It analyzed news stories posted by the top three online news websites of GMANews.com, ABSCBNnews.com and inquirer.net for three months. Findings show that GMA News, ABS-CBN News Online and inquirer, net news stories are presidential candidates programs and platforms, campaign activities, accomplishments of presidential candidates, poll survey results and trending interviews of candidates. It also discovered that posting news stories not only inform target audience but also educate, spread awareness, and invite formation of opinion. It also divulged that these three sources deliver credible information and practice fair reportage. An action plan is proposed to help voters be oriented and knowledgeable on newsworthiness and news credibility.

A win-win approach in human rights advocacy? Lessons Learned from the Book Titled "Human Dignity and Law. Studies on the Dignity of Human Life"

The universal respect for human rights should be the tie that binds, not the tie that divides our societies. In recent years, we have experienced the monopolization of interpretation in several legal questions. The authors recognized that there is a need for competition in the 'marketplace of ideas' in order to respect our diversities and preserve alternative and valid legal interpretations in different cases. The book human dignity and law leads us to believe that based on our human dignity, we should rebuild a culture of respect for those who think and live differently. Its authors' contribution is vastly important in order for us to understand how we can build a better understanding going forward.

Intellectual Populism: Democracy, Inquiry, and the People

Intellectual Populism: Democracy, Inquiry, and the People

The Settler Coloniality of Free Speech

Abstract Public and scholarly debates surrounding free speech often assume free speech is a public good and/or should be approached as a problem of “drawing the line” between free and regulated or benign and harmful speech. In contrast, this article provides a genealogy of free speech in which liberal freedom of expression has, since its inception, been integral to white supremacist settler colonialism in the United Kingdom and its former settler colonies, the United States, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. The article argues that, far from a noble struggle against regulation, liberal politics around free speech establish oppositions between white “civilized” speech and its Indigenized racially darkened “others” as well as controlling or silencing Indigenous, Black and/or otherwise racially othered speech across the Anglosphere. The article first traces free speech through two significant moments in its emergence: early European Enlightenment colonial expansion (embodied in John Locke's “toleration”) and 1800s British colonial industrialization (embodied in John Stuart Mill's “marketplace of ideas”). The article then examines how this genealogy informs the contemporary case study of contestation over free speech in universities, showing that engagements with free speech across the political spectrum extend its settler colonial rationality.

Unverified information and reconstruction of rumor regulation

ABSTRACT Rumor is defined as false information under the framework of Chinese laws, but in practice, law enforcement agencies tend to incorporate unverified information into the regulation of rumor, which broadens the range of enforcement. Unverified information may be subjectively and honestly believed to be true, and it could be false, inaccurate or accurate in an objective manner. In contrast, rumor, circulated with subjective malice, will inevitably lead to objective falsehood. As an important part in the marketplace of ideas, the existence of unverified information can promote the discussion and exchange of thoughts from which facts and truth are derived. Common law and most civil law systems adopt a subjective criterion to judge whether speech can be regarded as legal. This article suggests that China law should adopt the following approach. It should be determined whether the speech is unverified information before further judgment is made. Specifically speaking, speech should be presumed as unverified information rather than rumor if it is not targeted at a specific subject, or it is aimed at a specific subject with public interest involved. Speech deemed as rumor should be curbed, and the rumormongers are punishable, while the dissemination of unverified information shall be restricted if there is objective and obvious inaccuracy but the speaker should not be punished.