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The (Dis)Information Age
the Persistence of Ignorance
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Peter Lang Verlagsgruppe Unsere-Artikel-Nr.: PGPDYN9
EAN: 9781433115028
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Beschreibung
The (Dis)information Age challenges prevailing notions about the impact of new information and media technologies. The widespread acceptance of ideas about the socially transformative power of these technologies demands a close and critical interrogation. The technologies of the information revolution, often perceived as harbingers of social transformation, may more appropriately be viewed as tools, capable of positive and negative uses. This book encourages a more rational and even skeptical approach to the claims of the information revolution and demonstrates that, despite a wealth of information, ignorance persists and even thrives. As the volume of information available to us increases, our ability to process and evaluate that information diminishes, rendering us, at times, less informed. Despite the assumed globalization potential of new information technologies, users of global media such as the World Wide Web and Facebook tend to cluster locally around their own communities of interest and even around traditional communities of geography, nationalism, and heritage. Thus new media technologies may contribute to ignorance about various «others» and, in this and many other ways, contribute to the persistence of ignorance.
Spezifikationen
Sprache
- Englisch
Autor
- Shaheed Nick Mohammed
Kollektion
- Digital Formations
Auflage
- 1
Erscheinungsjahr
- 2012
Erscheinungsland
- USA
Format
- Buch (Hardcover)
Anzahl Seiten
- 218