The Digital Environment
- 208pages
- 8 heures de lecture
"Argues for a holistic view of the digital environment in which many of us now live, as neither determined by the features of technology nor uniformly negative for society"-- Provided by publisher
Pablo J. Boczkowski Livres
Les travaux de Pablo J. Boczkowski explorent les innovations dans le domaine de l'information en ligne et le fossé entre les préférences médiatiques et le public. Sa recherche examine comment les technologies numériques remodèlent le journalisme et comment ces transformations impactent la relation entre les organisations de presse et leur public. Il analyse de manière critique les cas où les préférences d'information des médias et du public divergent, et les implications que cela a pour l'avenir de la recherche journalistique. Boczkowski offre des perspectives précieuses sur le paysage en constante évolution des médias numériques.
Information overload is something that humans have dealt with for millennia. During different historical eras, massive increases in what was available to know has motivated the creation of systems for sorting, indexing, and compiling information as well as concerns that the abundance of information might cause cultural anxiety or even drive people to madness. The digital age has renewed concerns about information overload and the detrimental effects it has on our ability to sort through the stream of online data, decide what is most important, or even to train our attention on it long enough to make sense of it. In Abundance, Pablo J. Boczkowski builds upon what we know about the historical and contemporary scholarship to develop a novel framework on the experience of living in a society that has more information available to the public than ever before, focusing on the interpretations, emotions, and practices of dealing with this abundance in everyday life. Drawing on extensive fieldwork and survey research conducted in Argentina, Abundance examines the role of cultural and structural factors that mediate between the availability of information and the actual consequences for individuals, media, politics, and society. Providing the first book-length account of information abundance in the Global South, Boczkowski concludes that the experience of information abundance is tied to an overall unsettling of society, a reconstitution of how we understand and perform our relationships with others, and a twin depreciation of facts and appreciation of fictions.