My area of discussion and interest is on Information Overload, Information Quality, and Learning. The interest in this area intrigues me due to its nature on how information is looked at and what people see it as. Quality is a big part of how information is perceived by individuals looking it up for knowledge on a specific subject. If something is put out on the internet as a fact when it is a false statement then when someone uses this information it destroys all credibility of that person and all sites used by them. The overload part of the topic also interest me because of how most people say that they can process so much information but in all reality its lie. Most people can only remember a given amount of information at a single time and with the world’s online data usage increasing by an astronomical rate every year, which is just more and more information that we will soon forget or not even comprehend in the first place. As a whole, our society is still trying to keep up with this information ramp up that has happened in the past decade. We are trying to learn as it were, on how to deal with people basically living online and pushing aside the wonders on the living world around us. Most would rather see a picture rather than visit, but referring back to quality, nothing is as good or can live up to actually seeing the picture of it with your own eyes and not through a digitally enhanced, photo shop, drawing.Saturday, September 10, 2011
Quality of the Digital Life
My area of discussion and interest is on Information Overload, Information Quality, and Learning. The interest in this area intrigues me due to its nature on how information is looked at and what people see it as. Quality is a big part of how information is perceived by individuals looking it up for knowledge on a specific subject. If something is put out on the internet as a fact when it is a false statement then when someone uses this information it destroys all credibility of that person and all sites used by them. The overload part of the topic also interest me because of how most people say that they can process so much information but in all reality its lie. Most people can only remember a given amount of information at a single time and with the world’s online data usage increasing by an astronomical rate every year, which is just more and more information that we will soon forget or not even comprehend in the first place. As a whole, our society is still trying to keep up with this information ramp up that has happened in the past decade. We are trying to learn as it were, on how to deal with people basically living online and pushing aside the wonders on the living world around us. Most would rather see a picture rather than visit, but referring back to quality, nothing is as good or can live up to actually seeing the picture of it with your own eyes and not through a digitally enhanced, photo shop, drawing.
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I thought it was interesting the way you brought about the aspect of information credibility. I hadn't really thought of it in that way but it makes sense. Many people do not know how to use the internet to actually research and end up just using wikipedia and not using any sources that have any certifiable credibility. They can in turn post something with this faulty information, exacerbating the problem and causing a sort of domino effect.
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