Category: Technology
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What contestivism reveals about the post-truth era
What is perceived as a post-truth era is not a breakdown but an exposure of ongoing meaning contests within society. Contestivism reveals that individuals assert their truths in a digital landscape, amplifying existing tensions in understanding reality. This situation reflects the human struggle for existential recognition rather than a collapse…
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Partial information is bad communication: When initiatives meant to develop communities do the exact opposite
Partial information creates false assumptions. In an environment where consumers believe all cards are on the table when they’re not, information initiatives can introduce chaos and create more problems that they solve.
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Disinformation = Exponential uncertainty?
Here’s a mathematical puzzle for information theorists. If one bit of information equals one bit of negative uncertainty, then what does one bit of disinformation yield? Surely, it goes the other way and creates uncertainty, but by how much? Is it a matter of reversing the signs? The point of…
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Information disorder: The unintended consequence of an information society
The Information Age was touted as a leap forward in modernity from the Industrial Age. It was a massive development from when factory workers served as the lifeblood of Western economies, on the backs of whom capitalists made their fortunes. The digital revolution wrestled some of the power away from…
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Information and communication: What’s the difference?
As citizens of the information age, we have grown to understand the concepts of information and communication as one and the same, or, at the most, two sides of the same coin. In an era where any type of information is a product of an agenda to communicate, it is…
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Generative AI: Eliminating barriers to entry for information disorder
Misinformation (or information disorder as some of the leading industry voices refer to it) has indeed become a serious concern for its potential to disrupt civility and damage democracy, with its power being used to sway elections and sow public discord in an increasingly polarized world (Kandel, 2020). Layering the…
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What data illiteracy has done to our politics and society
Over the last two decades, thanks to our information society, data has risen in status as the most valuable commodity for business (Brandao and Rezende, 2020). In fact, mathematician Clive Humby proclaimed data as the new oil as far back as 2006. With refined data, enterprises can generate insights that…
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