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THE (DIS)INFORMATION AGE - SHAHEED NICK MOHAMME...

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.

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