scott koppit's List: Information Literacy

• Information Overload is Filter Failure

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• Clay Shirky (shirky.com) It's Not Information Overload. It's Filter Failure.
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• Master information flow, instead of becoming its slave

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• By Jin Jianbin

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• China Daily, May 6, 2013

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• Most people today face the problem of information overflow. Virtually we can't avoid being the target of a variety of news, stories and commercials that play on our curiosity.

   

  A majority of us communicate with the world through what are collectively called the three screens: the TV screen, the computer screen and the screen on our mobile phones. Every day, vast volumes of infotainment contents hit these screens and compete to capture our attention. These screens act as the portals through which we perceive and understand the world. In this sense, the portal truly frames our world.
• Inability to properly regulate our use of social media could lead to addiction and have a disastrous impact on a person's life.
• To highlight the significance of the issue, the established concept of information literacy might need to be updated to embrace the new characteristics of social media proliferation. In short, an information-literate person should be able to maximize the advantage of information prosperity while minimizing its side effects.

  • Proper [nformation consumption is achieved when we are able to filter the incoming information.
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• he author is a professor at the School of Journalism and Communication, Tsinghua University.

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