Bachelor-of-Digital-Society.md

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-The BA DS course "Making Knowledge and Manufacturing Doubt" discussed **theories of knowledge**. This course addressed knowledge practices, knowledge dissemination and utilisation, and **post-truth**. **Agnotology** is a field of research that examines the cultural creation and maintenance of knowledge, ignorance and doubt. Crucial authors of the sociology of knowledge are Peter Buke and Robert King Merton.
+The BA DS course "Making Knowledge and Manufacturing Doubt" discussed **theories of knowledge**. This course addressed knowledge practices, knowledge dissemination and utilisation, and **post-truth**. **Agnotology** is a field of research that examines the cultural creation and maintenance of knowledge, ignorance, and doubt. Crucial authors of the sociology of knowledge are Peter Burke and Robert King Merton.
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+One particularly important focus of the BA DS programme is the **social construction of scientific knowledge**. Scholars studying science and technology have been concerned with showing how much of science can be accounted for by the work done by scientists, engineers, and others. In this, they have stressed the need for symmetrical patterns of explanation, in which true and scientific beliefs require the same type of explanation as false and non-scientific beliefs. Social constructivist theories help us see the social labor or work that goes into **accepted knowledge**. Construction here does not mean that it has no effect. Constructed beliefs, for instance by means of statistics, or by means of excluded bodies, have real-world effects alright. Yet, only by questioning how visualizations or numbers construct knowledge or ignorance, we can deal with these effects, and we can understand the role that digitalization might play in the process.
 
 Burke, P. (2012). [_A social history of knowledge_](https://worldcat.org/en/title/841207949) (Vol. II, from the Encyclopédie to Wikipedia). Polity. \[Book\]
 
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 Merton, R. K. (1937). [The sociology of knowledge](https://doi.org/10.1086/347276). Isis, 27, 493–503.
 
-Summary provided by Monika Barget (History), based on the sources cited.
+Summary provided by Simone Schleper (History) and Monika Barget (History), based on the sources cited.
 
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