Re: Social Media Epistemology

Brian Frank — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 16:34:35 -0000

Sorry to be rude but my understanding is that epistemology is the study of the nature of knowledge. Since this post is about the nature of people's claims to knowledge in the domain of social media, I'm not seeing how the title is in any way inappropriate. (If anything, it's bad SEO.)

Also, this is a blog post, not a definitive article. It was meant to be timely in the context of the discussion I linked to, aimed at a specific group of regular readers who know what they're getting into. I can't be blamed for the way Google works or that you haven't learned to be a more discriminating user and faster reader.

If you can give me a sense of what you were looking for I might be able to help. If you're looking for discussions of the ideas of real philosophers then I've written a bit about pragmatism that I can point you to (or you search the archives).

If by "substance" you mean scholarly citations you could start with this post by Brian McNely (one of the people you can see below who apparently approved of what I wrote).

Re: Social Media Epistemology

Chickensmother — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 15:50:23 -0000

Found this from a google search on "media epistemology". Not to be rude, but if you are not going to talk about the first thing about epistemology, DON'T use that in your title. Wasted me ten minutes and I found nothing of substance here.

Re: Social Media Epistemology

Meg — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 14:34:25 -0000

you're standing in front of my class right now.....showing us your blog. i felt i should comment on it. so...i did.

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