The (dis)information age: the persistence of ignorance

by Mohammed, S. Nick

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Title Statements

Full title :The (dis)information age : the persistence of ignorance / Shaheed Nick Mohammed.

Summary

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.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:©2012.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Peter Lang
Place of Publication:New York
Language:eng
Publication Date:©2012.

The Physical Object

Description:206 pages ; : 24 cm.

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9781433115028, 1433115026, 9781453905340, 1453905340
oclc:ocn761334867
LC Classification:HM851
Dewey Decimal:303.48/33

Introduction -- Ignorance in context -- The information age in perspective -- Information age paradoxes -- Media and ignorance -- Disinformation, propaganda and video games -- Ignorance is good business -- Information age journalism and ignorance -- Social media, disinformation and ignorance -- Reasons for hope -- Epilogue: the end of the world.

Subjects

Communication Desinformation Disinformation Ignorance Ignorance (Theory of knowledge) Information society Information technology -- Social aspects Propaganda Propagande Société informatisée Technologie de l'information -- Aspect …