Bernhard Poerksen: 3 books
The Certainty of Uncertainty
Dialogues Introducing Constructivism
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2013
Nothing that can be said is independent of us. Whatever can be said is coloured by our dreams and aspirations, by the way our brain works, by human nature and human culture. Whoever claims to know or to observe is - according to the central constructivist assumption - inescapably biased.This book presents...
The Creation of Reality
A Constructivist Epistemology of Journalism and Journalism Education
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2013
Constructivism has been traded as a new paradigm by its advocates, and criticised by its opponents as legitimating deceit and lies, as justifying a trendy post-modern "Anything goes".In this book, Bernhard Poerksen draws up a new rationale for constructivist thinking and charts out directions for the...
The Unleashed Scandal
The End of Control in the Digital Age
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2014
In an age of ubiquitous digital media and permanent mutual observation scandals are omnipresent. Everybody can release them, everybody can become their victim. Videos on mobile phones terminate careers, Twitter messages generate outrage, and SMS messages turn into evidence. Documents of embarrassment...