Titlebook: Gossip, Epistemology, and Power; Knowledge Undergroun Karen Adkins Book 2017 The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017 Gossip.Ep

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Introduction: Some Loose Talk About Gossip,This chapter introduces the book’s argument. Despite its bad reputation, gossip is a crucial epistemic tool for marginalized people, as a way of comparing ideas and constructing arguments.

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Failure to Communicate: Gossip as Institutional Conflict,This chapter examines a double standard in academic gossip; it is used by outsiders as a way to get and spread information and ideas about the profession, while being invisibly used (while externally denounced) by insiders as a way of attacking critics’ credibility.

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Weaponized Gossip,This chapter articulates some conditions that facilitate negative gossip: compromised trust, small, insular communities, and sharp or turbulent power divisions.

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Conclusion: Schools for Scandal,This chapter summarizes the book, argues for a single, consistent standard around the use and identification of gossip, and suggests social practices that facilitate good gossip.

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Rumors Help the Enemy! Gossip in Politics,resence has been selectively denounced in recent case studies (Gary Hart, Bill Clinton, Valerie Plame), particularly by journalists who themselves rely on anonymous sources (often a version of gossip).

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Karen AdkinsExamines how gossip, a constant human activity, contributes toward knowledge.Offers new insights on popular and well known academic case studies.Provides a vigorously interdisciplinary approach to the