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This detailed guide to navigating the bewildering superabundance of information in today’s globalizing world draws on the latest work in philosophy and the social sciences to explore how information, and its misuse, can both support and undermine democracy.

Vincent F. Hendricks is Professor of Formal Philosophy at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark, Elite Researcher of the Danish State. He is the author of many books, among them (Agency & Interaction, forthcoming 2013), Mainstream and Formal Epistemology (Cambridge University Press, 2007) The Convergence of Scientific Knowledge (Springer, 2001). He is also the author and editor of numerous papers and books on formal epistemology, methodology and logic. Hendricks is editor-in-Chief of Synthese and Synthese Library.

Pelle Guldborg Hansen is Behavioral Researcher at Roskilde University; Director of ISSP – The Initiative of Science, Society & Policy at Roskilde University and University of Southern Denmark; and member of the Prevention Council of the Danish Diabetes Assoc. He is also heading the collaborative venture iNudgeYou.com and chairman of the Danish Nudging Network. Pelle has a Ph.D. degree in game theoretical modeling of social conventions and norms. His main research revolves around real world applications of game theoretic as well as behavioral economics, especially so-called ‘nudge’-interventions, within a wide range of arenas: from bank-mobility and conformity to tax regulation over organ-donation and street littering to registration processes within Public Authorities. His research and work have been reported by The Economist, Foreign Policy and CNN.com. In 2010 he founded as well as became the Chairman of The Danish Nudging Network that comprises more than 60 governmental institutions, municipalities, universities, organizations and businesses.