The (Dis)information Age: The Persistence of Ignorance

The (Dis)information Age: The Persistence of Ignorance

by Shaheed Nick Mohammed
The (Dis)information Age: The Persistence of Ignorance

The (Dis)information Age: The Persistence of Ignorance

by Shaheed Nick Mohammed

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Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781433115028
Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Publication date: 01/20/2012
Series: Digital Formations , #79
Pages: 206
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Shaheed Nick Mohammed, Associate Professor of Communications at Penn State Altoona, earned his doctorate from the University of New Mexico at Albuquerque. He is the author of Communication and the Globalization of Culture: Beyond Tradition and Borders (2011).

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