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Does it matter if our acquisition of knowledge happens in "…
Does it matter if our acquisition of knowledge happens in "bubbles" where some information and voices are excluded?
Bubbles
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echochambers - ignoring outside information and only surrounded by people who have the same opinions as you
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Yes
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Silencing of information, leads to the silencing of opinions. This can be very dangerous
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No
False Balance - when journalists present an issue that has both sides, even if all the credible sources are on one side. Therefore creating an imbalance
e.g. climate change is presented as a balanced issue when it is clear that evidence supports that it is real
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AOK 1 - History - Textbooks tend to show only one side of a historic event - biased as it only shows the side of one component
e.g. Colonialism of Europeans in America and Africa - only after many years, one truly found out what happened
AOK2 - Natural sciences - the acquisition of knwoldege in bubbles where some voices are excluded allowed for scientific discoveries
- e.g. That the world is round
However the exclusions of certain voices also meant that some people were not able to share their knowledge
- e.g. Rosalind Franklin - was not recognised for her work
e.g. Bell Burnell who discovered pulsars in 1967 - however the Nobel prize was given to her supervisor Anthony Hewish