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Infoglut - How Too Much Information Is Changing the Way We Think and Know (Hardcover)
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Infoglut - How Too Much Information Is Changing the Way We Think and Know (Hardcover)
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Today, more mediated information is available to more people than
at any other time in human history. New and revitalized
sense-making strategies multiply in response to the challenges of
"cutting through the clutter" of competing narratives and taming
the avalanche of information. Data miners, "sentiment analysts,"
and decision markets offer to help bodies of data "speak for
themselves"-making sense of their own patterns so we don't have to.
Neuromarketers and body language experts promise to peer behind
people's words to see what their brains are really thinking and
feeling. New forms of information processing promise to displace
the need for expertise and even comprehension-at least for those
with access to the data. Infoglut explores the connections between
these wide-ranging sense-making strategies for an era of
information overload and "big data," and the new forms of control
they enable. Andrejevic critiques the popular embrace of
deconstructive debunkery, calling into question the post-truth,
post-narrative, and post-comprehension politics it underwrites, and
tracing a way beyond them.
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