Epistemology of Deceit in a Postdigital Era

Alison MacKenzie’s academic background is in Philosophy of Education. She is the Director of the Masters programme for Special Educational Needs and Inclusion at Queen's University, Belfast. She is interested in how injustice and inequality are reproduced and sustained by forms of ignorance, testimonial and hermeneutical injustices, lack of access to important capitals such as linguistic capital, and by the ways in which ordinary vices are often overlooked as important sources of injustice, such as cruelty, misogyny, or hypocrisy. Jennifer Rose’s academic background is in Philosophy of Education. She is primarily interested in epistemology, epistemic practices, related psychologies, how they foster or hinder social justice initiatives, and how education can respond. She completed her PhD  at Queen’s University, Belfast with her thesis focused on knowledge and its role in creating and sustaining injustices. Her professional background is entrepreneurial focused on course development and delivery in a corporate lifelong learning context. Ibrar Bhatt is a Lecturer in Education at Queen’s University Belfast. He specialises in research and teaching related to writing and literacy as a social practice, digital literacies, and contemporary digital epistemologies. He has also published on the fields of digital literacy, epistemologies of trust online, and research methods. He is also a member of the Governing Council of the Society for Research into Higher Education, and a convener of its Digital University Network. He is an Executive Editor for the journal Teaching in Higher Education.

• Introduction: The Genesis of Dupery by Design.- Part 1: Epistemology of Deceit.- Chapter 1 Bad Faith, Bad Politics, Bad Consequences: The Epistemic Harms of Online Deceit.- Chapter 2 An Epistemology of False Beliefs:  The Role of Truth, Trust, And Technology In Postdigital Deception.-  Chapter 3 Towards A Response to Epistemic Nihilism.- Chapter 4 Duperation: Deliberate Lying in Postdigital, Postmodern Political Rhetoric.- Chapter 5 The Right to Freedom of Expression versus Legal Actions against Fake News: A Case Study of Singapore.- Chapter 6 US Digital Nationalism: A Habermasean Critical Discourse Analysis of Trump’s ‘Fake News’ Approach to The First Amendment.- Chapter 7 A Project of Mourning: Attuning to the Impact ‘Anthropocentric-Noise Disorder’ on Non-Human Kin.- Chapter 8 Someone is Wrong on the Internet: Is There an Obligation to Correct False and Oppressive Speech on Social Media?.- Chapter 9 Writing Against the ‘Epistemology of Deceit’ on Wikipedia: A Feminist New Materialist Perspective Toward Critical Media Literacy and Wikipedia-based Education.-  Chapter 10 The Neoliberal Colonization of Discourses: Gentrification, Discursive Markets and Zombemes.- Chapter 11 Social Memes and Depictions of Refugees in The EU – Challenging Irrationality and Misinformation with A Media Literacy Intervention.-  Chapter 12 Scallywag Pedagogy.- Chapter 13 Learning from the Dupers: Showing the Workings.- Chapter 14 Ghosting Inside the Machine: Student Cheating, Online Education and the Omertà of Institutional Liars.- Chapter 15      'Choice is Yours': Anatomy of a Lesson Plan from University V.- Conclusion.

“The true merit of the book lies in that it addresses the problems of fake news, conspiracy thinking, and other disturbing phenomena in the postdigital … . The contributors to The Epistemology of Deceit in a Postdigital Era: Dupery by Design … address a multitude of approaches in detecting, understanding, and combating dupery online which make an excellent starting point for necessary future work.” (Mats Hyvönen, Postdigital Science and Education, Vol. 4 (3), 2022)