Informative Information About: Information
At this point in time, humans have the greatest amount of intellectual information they have ever had. Yet many people fall victim to sources presenting false information, or purchasing information available for free. This essay will cover why this is should be a concern, and what you can do about it.
First, a reader should be informed on what the definition of information is. Merriam-Webster, a source of word definitions for over one hundred years, states that information is "knowledge that you get about someone or something: facts or details about a subject". Our abilities to record and store this information has expanded vastly. The oldest form of retention that we know is word-of-mouth. Here knowledge
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A simple search for any how-to or DIY subject can turn up thousands of results. Sadly, many of these results can be spam, fake, or charge fees. My personal example comes from one of my own purchases. While looking for information on wild edible plants, I was continually led back to one book. The author was said to have a PhD, and was to be considered to have the highest quality information available. Thirty dollars and a week later I received the book that was supposed to set me on my way. He spends the first twenty pages talking about himself. The next forty about what belt he prefers to wear outside. The book proceeded to cover only fifteen different plants. Angry, I went back online, and after multiple hours of searching, found a five dollar deck of cards that had information on fifty plants in my region, and held more information about each them than the …show more content…
Information is easily attainable from ones local location. Usually to check out a more than one book a library card is required, but is of no hassle to obtain. Libraries may even provide some extra fabulous features. A premier example is Ludington's local library, The Mason County District Library. Established over one hundred years ago, they provide open wifi, computers, and meeting rooms (2016). Michigan residents also may access MEL or the Michigan eLibrary. MEL allows a user to search for any article with the database related to the search. Their advanced search feature can fully optimize how it looks for articles related to the entered words, and will pull up more relevant results than a Google search. These searches can still pull up articles that hold facts based in falsehoods. To prevent this, an individual only has to click on the peer review search filter. This prevents any article appearing that has not been reviewed by others familiar with the
The internet is a hub of information. It is easy to access this information and resources by simple looking up a simple topic. How much of this information is actually true? In The New Yorker article “The Things People Say” author Elizabeth Kolbert explains the dangers of believing wholeheartedly the information given to us online. She uses logos to prove that the internet can be biased with information through “group polarization” and a site’s inability to upload contradictory information. She fails however with ethos in her paper because she is hypocritical.
Information Literacy is an important skill for the 21st century do to our busy and always on the move schedules. Recognizing when information is needed and being able to efficiently locate, accurately evaluate, effectively use, and clearly communicate the information, will help out when time is of an essence and the information needs information.
Students face “an ocean of information” today, much of it of poor quality, so a better approach would be to teach students how to “triangulate” a source like Wikipedia, so they could use other sources to tell whether a given entry could be trusted. “I think our goal should be to equip students with the critical thinking skills to judge.”
...second using the search engine, people lose their motivation to read and the attention to think about the answer. (Crovitz 353) In Plato’s Phaedrus, Greek philosopher Socrates claims that people who get information without proper instruction as ignorant since they only conceit of the answer instead of the wisdom to find out and understand the answer. (Carr 341) With such access to information, we do spread information and expand human knowledge in a rapid rate. However, we lose our creativity, intelligence and the spirit of inquiry.
...some actually come through and provide information that can be shared. This information is what gives everyone an easier way of obtaining such information for it is much easier to look it up on the web than find out in person. While other look up this information back in the day people went to libraries where they read books for intel. The books in libraries are more likely to contain more information over the past than the internet these days due to how old the information is and how the internet wasn’t obtainable back in the day so no one could share it so instead they used writing utensils to record them in books to pass down to the future. Many agree that reading sync with the brain more often than the web just because its in our nature. I conclude my essay by recommending to read the information from books which contain more accurate intel than the internet.
In Praise of Not Knowing is an argumentative piece which argues that today’s easily accessible sources of information is doing an injustice for people today who wants to learn new information. Kreider mentions multiple personal anecdotes, from music, to movie plots, to science articles. All arguing if it is truly effective to simply look up the information rather than going through the journey to find out the information yourself. Questioning whether people today are truly learning that “what we cannot find inflames the imagination.”(Kreider 203).
The future of economic competitiveness for most enterprises relies on entrance and active participation in the E-commerce. Furthermore, Dorner & Curtis, 2003 believe a common user interface replaces the multiple interfaces found among individual electronic library resources, reducing the time and effort spent by the user in both searching and learning to use a range of databases. Although the primary function of a common user interface is to simplify the search process, such products can be holistic solutions designed to address requirements other than searching, such as user authentication and site branding.
Metzger, M. J. (2010). Making sense of credibility on the web: Models for evaluating online information and recommendations for future research. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 58(13), 2078-2091. doi:10.1002/asi.20672
With access to the internet, people are able to learn anything given any moment of the day. The internet was originally created to provide a database of knowledge. In "Current Generation Extremely Influential," Joe Shreve describes that misguided people use GOOGLE simply to search up answers to their
In recent years, the Internet has become the number one choice for doing research. A person can find information on just about anything. There are websites devoted to cooking recipes, musicians, schools, and pornography. Many schools will even allow students to apply for admission over the Internet. Schools such as California State University, Northridge give students an option to register for classes through the school website, making it quick and easy to get classes. The Internet is truly the "information superhighway."
But what good is all this information if it is not usable? "Almost all our resources are dedicated to gathering the raw material--information--and almost nothing is spent on the most important job of transforming information into intelligence" (Milton 1989, p. 6). Milton suggests that it is possible to have "negative information"--that which causes the recipient to know less than before because it is not integrated, applied, and transformed into knowledge. Essential to information mastery is understanding the relationship between data, information, and knowledge (TAFE-TEQ 1992): data are raw facts and figures, information is data organized into a meaningful context, and knowledge is organized data (i.e., information) that has been understood and applied.
Daniel Bell (1973) coined the expression ‘the post-industrial society’. In this society a substantial proportion of the population are employed or involved in the work of information collection and communication. In this sense we can see that information has become a commodity which can have a value and is therefore marketable. It also can be seen as an indispensable component of our social fabric.
Google may not return the specific page you want, but that doesn't mean the information isn't out there, different strategies and terms may be used to produce the desired outcome.
The kind of information I will explore is the knowledge of a specific news or event derived from study, experience or instruction(Webster 1993). This type of information is not something everyone can have access to. This information can separate the successful companies from the one¹s struggling to survive. This information is valuable, and can be bought, sold traded and even stolen. It can be the most important asset a company owns.
Firstly, most people today get all their information from the internet instead of books . While the internet is great there are some problem with getting information online. One of those things is sources anyone can create a website with information. The problem is that anyone can write information on the subject and the information could be wrong. Today everyone has the option to