Mediating Plureality: Technology, Perception, and Ethics in a Divided Democracy

In this book, Morten Bay provocatively questions whether or not truth in media is lost and, furthermore, whether humans can perceive objective reality or, as many neuroscientists and philosophers now believe, we all perceive different realities constructed through predictive processing. As affective polarization continues to render American democracy increasingly dysfunctional – a situation largely inflamed by media – Bay calls for a cultural shift in which these two conditions are reconcil...