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The Dark Side of Information Proliferation
Perspectives on Psychological Science ( IF 12.6 ) Pub Date : 2018-11-29 , DOI: 10.1177/1745691618803647
Thomas T. Hills 1
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Anti-expert speech, fake news as a political weapon, the replication crisis, relentless health warnings associating cancer with everything we eat, and the richly documented pathologies of online inattention are all symptoms of a rising awareness that information is not benign (Bawden & Robinson, 2009; Carr, 2011; Eppler, 2015; Jacoby, Speller, & Kohn, 1974; Schoenfeld & Ioannidis, 2012; Schwartz, 2004). A common contributor to each of these problems and the focus of this article is information proliferation—the capacity to access and contribute to a growing quantity of information. According to the International Telecommunications Union (2017), more than 4 billion people are now mobile-broadband users, granting each near instantaneous power to access, create, and share information. This represents a 5-fold increase since 2010. Simultaneously, our technological capacities to store and share information have soared (Hilbert & Lopez, 2011; van den Bosch, Bogers, & de Kunder, 2016).1 The result of this proliferation is that information is placed increasingly under the influence of an attention economy (e.g., Lanham, 2006) in which a growing number of people influence the evolution of information by what they pay attention to (e.g., Bakshy, Messing, & Adamic, 2015; Gentzkow & Shapiro, 2010).

中文翻译:

信息扩散的阴暗面

反专家的言论,假新闻作为政治武器,复制危机,无休止的健康警告将癌症与我们所吃的一切联系在一起,以及文献记载丰富的在线注意力不集中的病态,这些都是人们逐渐意识到信息不是良性的症状(Bawden&Robinson ,2009年;卡尔,2011年;埃普勒,2015年;雅可比,史派勒和科恩,1974年;斯科恩菲尔德和约阿尼迪斯,2012年;施瓦茨,2004年)。这些问题的共同贡献者和本文的重点是信息扩散,即访问信息并为不断增长的信息做出贡献的能力。根据国际电信联盟(2017)的数据,现在有超过40亿人是移动宽带用户,他们每人都获得了近乎瞬时的访问,创建和共享信息的权力。自2010年以来,这一数字增长了5倍。1这种扩散的结果是,信息越来越受到关注经济的影响(例如Lanham,2006年),在这种经济中,越来越多的人通过关注的内容(例如Bakshy,Messing)来影响信息的发展。 ,&Adamic,2015; Gentzkow&Shapiro,2010)。
更新日期:2018-11-29
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