How is plausibility negotiated and established in different social and cultural contexts? With today's "fake news", "filter bubbles" and the rise of AI, the practices used to identify plausibility have new urgency. The question is: how can they be understood scientifically? The book "Vorläufige Gewissheiten. Plausibilität als soziokulturelle Praxis" (Provisional Certainties. Plausibility as a Sociocultural Practice) explores the provisional certainties produced through socio-cultural practices of establishing plausibility. The publication (in German) is also available for free download.

The book's authors, a multi-disciplinary team of researchers from the University of Konstanz, analyze with a view to different historical and regional contexts the socio-cultural manifestations, modalities, inner workings, dynamics and strategies involved in the process of identifying and establishing plausibility. Among other things, the case studies deal with the legal process for evaluating the plausibility of asylum applications, the practices of plausibilization in social movements, and the strategies for constructing plausibility in the arts.

Open access book: "Vorläufige Gewissheiten. Plausibilität als soziokulturelle Praxis"

The book (doi: 10.14361/9783839470503) is available for free download from the transcript Verlag website.