{"id":13,"date":"2021-11-08T21:29:25","date_gmt":"2021-11-08T21:29:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/surveillancecapitalism\/?p=13"},"modified":"2021-11-11T00:39:57","modified_gmt":"2021-11-11T00:39:57","slug":"epistemic-inequality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/surveillancecapitalism\/2021\/11\/08\/epistemic-inequality\/","title":{"rendered":"Epistemic Inequality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Epistemic Inequality has always existed, but as the world shifts more and more online, it has gotten stronger. Online corporations track and record all they can of us, whether this is our location, our communication with each other, our purchases or interests in products, our searches, or our biometric information.<\/p>\n<p>Epistemic equality depends on epistemic justice, the scope of which is framed by three essential questions based on knowledge, authority, and power. These questions are, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cambridge.org\/core\/books\/after-the-digital-tornado\/caveat-usor-surveillance-capitalism-as-epistemic-inequality\/9EB949FA5BD07CF448C7D8F6A226B975\">put simply, \u201cWho knows?\u201d \u201cWho decides who knows?\u201d \u201cWho decides who decides who knows?\u201d The answers to these questions determine a society\u2019s progress toward epistemic equality.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>So epistemic inequality really relies on who we <strong>don&#8217;t<\/strong> know, and who we <strong>don&#8217;t<\/strong> willingly give power to.<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 1024px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/47704943292_77e7c40ecb_b.jpg\" alt=\"Power and Epistemic Justice, keynote by @LeslieKChan #DIS2\u2026 | Flickr\" width=\"1024\" height=\"700\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo courtesy of Flickr<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Epistemic Inequality has always existed, but as the world shifts more and more online, it has gotten stronger. Online corporations track and record all they&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/surveillancecapitalism\/2021\/11\/08\/epistemic-inequality\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Epistemic Inequality<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":4937,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-trends","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/surveillancecapitalism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/surveillancecapitalism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/surveillancecapitalism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/surveillancecapitalism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4937"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/surveillancecapitalism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/surveillancecapitalism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":159,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/surveillancecapitalism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13\/revisions\/159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/surveillancecapitalism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/surveillancecapitalism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/surveillancecapitalism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}