Infostorms

VincentF. Hendricks is Professor of Formal Philosophy at The University ofCopenhagen. He is Director of the Center for Information and Bubble Studies(CIBS) sponsored by the Carlsberg Foundation and was awarded the Elite Research Prize by the DanishMinistry of Science, Technology and Innovation and the Roskilde Festival Elite Research Prize both in 2008. He wasEditor-in-Chief of Synthese: AnInternational Journal for Epistemology, Methodology and Philosophy of Sciencebetween 2005-2015.PelleGuldborg Hansen is Behavioral Researcher at Roskilde University;Director of ISSP — The Initiative of Science, Society &Policy at Roskilde University and University of Southern Denmark; andmember of the Prevention Council of the Danish Diabetes Association. He alsoheads the independent research group iNudgeYou and is chairman of the DanishNudging Network and co-founder of TEN — The European Nudge Network.

• Chapter 1: Off We Go.- Part 1: How Information Technologies May Amplify Irrational GroupBehavoir.- Chapter 2: Common Knowledge and Public Space.- Chapter 3: Pluralistic Ignorance and Bystanders.- Chapter 4: Informational Cascades and Lemmings.- Part Ii: Why Free Choice, Markets and Deliberation Cannot Protect Us.- Chapter 5: Choice: Framing Choice.- Chapter 6: Markets: Choosing Frames.- Chapter 7: Deliberation: Polarized People.- Chapter 8: The Constitutive Games We Play.- Part 3: Wars, Bubbles and Democracy.- Chapter 9: Wars.- Chapter 10: Bubbles.- Chapter 11: Democracy.- Part 4: Postscript: The Social Power Of Information Architecture.- Chapter 12: The Social Powers of Infostorms.