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 of shared truths.
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.
Sign up for updates
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 the first equation is to…
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 the owners of the means…
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 a challenge to separate these…
Something went wrong. Please refresh the page and/or try again.
JQCO.PhD 