Today&#039;s Facts: Understanding the Current Evolution of Information

James W. Cortada

doi:10.5771/9798881804749

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Edition: 1/2024
Copyright Year: 2024
ISBN-Print: 979-8-8818-0473-2
ISBN-Online: 979-8-8818-0474-9
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 244
Product Type: Monograph

1. Contents No access
2. Preface No access
1. That Definitions Are Still Unsettled No access
2. That a Great Deal of Information Exists No access
3. That People Live in an Information Ecosystem Reliant on an Information Infrastructure No access
4. That Information Changes Due to Evolving Needs No access
5. That Biologists Are Shaping Our Understanding of Information No access
6. That Technologies Shape Information, Too No access
7. Some Concluding Thoughts No access
1. Early Uses of Computers, 1950–Mid-1960s No access
2. 1. Then Came Personal Computers and Their Sequels, 1970–2000s No access
  2. Digital Plumbing and Information Infrastructures No access
  3. Welcome to the Internet, 2000–2010s No access
3. Conclusions No access
1. 1. Institutional Responses No access
  2. How Much Is Created and Used No access
  3. Economic and Social Impact No access
2. Arguments for Why We Live in an Information Age No access
3. Arguments for Why We Do Not Live in an Information Age No access
4. The Shock of Future Shock and the French Debate about Information Societies No access
5. Implications No access
6. Conclusions No access
1. Defining Big Data and Its Emerging Features No access
2. Is There a Civil War Underway among Big Data Users? No access
3. How Different Disciplines Interacted with Big Data No access
4. What Big Data Means for Society No access
5. Conclusions No access
1. Long-term Patterns of Falsehoods No access
2. Role of Computing and the Internet in the Creation and Dissemination of Fake Facts No access
3. The Problem of Information Illiteracy and Responses to It No access
4. The Case for a New Information Literacy No access
1. How Brains Process Information and Shape What Are Facts: The Power of Bias No access
2. As an Information Ecosystem No access
3. As a Mixture of Information Technology Methods of Thinking Combined With Notions of Ecosystems No access
4. What Role Does Individual Human Intelligence Play? IQ and Information No access
5. As a Way of Understanding Information—The Role of Context No access
6. Finally, So What? No access
1. A Way of Thinking about AI No access
2. The Arrival of a New Generation of AI No access
3. What about Robotics? No access
4. Conclusions No access
1. Chapter 1 No access
2. Chapter 2 No access
3. Chapter 3 No access
4. Chapter 4 No access
5. Chapter 5 No access
6. Chapter 6 No access
7. Chapter 7 No access
1. Learning from the History of Information No access
2. How Information Changed Work No access
3. Living in the Information Age No access
4. The Rise of Big Data No access
5. Fake Facts, Fake News No access
6. Looking at Information Today No access
Index No access Pages 233 - 242
About the Author No access Pages 243 - 244