Ignorance and Transparency in the Era of Socio-digital Disruption

The Neoliberal economic regime and market-based knowledge production, combined with digitalization and the rise of social media have shaken the former authority of institutional knowledge and expertise in various professions. One of the epistemological paradoxes related to data driven societies is that knowledge and non-knowing as well as information and disinformation increase in equal amounts. For instance, algorithms and machine learning make people and democratic public discussion vulnerable to various filter bubbles in social media and automated inequality created by the predictive analytics of automated decision-making.