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Too much information : understanding what you don't want to know / by Sunstein, Cass R.,author.(CARDINAL)201957;
"When should the government require people to disclose information? A lot of the debate around information disclosure focuses on having the "right to know," but Cass Sunstein argues that it is more useful to think of information and its effects on peoples' well-being. Of course, this is often easier said than done. What is helpful to one person can be harmful to another (for example, calorie labels on your favorite snack-do you really want to know?) How can you balance the various informational needs of diverse people in a variety of circumstances? This book explores information we receive and what we do with it. Sunstein focuses on mandatory labels, an area in which he has done a significant amount of research. When does information help you stop doing something that is harmful, or at least make you want to stop smoking? When is information simply too much, as in those lengthy terms of service that no one reads? Or when is it confusing to receive information? Does the existence of a label that says "this product was made with genetically modified organisms" actually tell us anything about the health effects of eating a particular food? (No.) Another, often overlooked question, is the fact that people will seek or avoid information based on how they think the information will make them feel. In many cases, how a person feels about receiving information is directly related to what they can do with it. If they receive a medical screening result in a case where early detection is useful and life-saving, that is good news and people will seek that information out. However, if a person has the option to find out whether or not they have a genetic disease with no treatment, they are less likely to want to know. The book considers information in other forms, including social media. Sunstein finds that people aren't happy when they use Facebook, but they value the information that they get from the platform, so much so that users in a lab setting would demand a significant amount of money to stop using Facebook, even when they agree that using Facebook makes them unhappy. Another form of information Sunstein covers is government paperwork. He makes the astonishing observation that if every resident of Chicago spent 40 hours a week filling out federal forms, they would get through less than half of the amount of paperwork people across the United States must fill out annually. Government estimates quantify the annual paperwork burden as filling 9.78 billion hours. This is what Richard Thaler calls "sludge," and Sunstein discusses the ways in which sludge can be reduced to encourage certain outcomes, like automatically enrolling low-income children in free lunch programs. In other cases, however, sludge can literally save lives, as in situations when a waiting period is instituted for buying a gun. Information is a powerful tool. In many cases, government is entirely right to provide it, or require others to do so. We are better off with stop signs, with warnings on prescription drugs, with GPS devices, with reminders that bills are due or that doctors' appointments are upcoming. But sometimes less is more. What is needed, for the future, is much more clarity about what information is actually doing or achieving. The challenge is to increase the likelihood that information will actually make people's days go better - and contribute to the enjoyment and the length of "true life." This book raises questions to help us think about when less is more, when more is less, and when enough is enough"--Includes bibliographical references and index.Knowledge is power, but ignorance is bliss -- Measuring welfare -- Psychology -- Learning the wrong thing -- Moral wrongs -- Valuing Facebook -- Sludge.
Subjects: Information behavior.; Disclosure of information.; Information policy.;
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Nexus [large print] : a brief history of information networks from the Stone Age to AI / by Harari, Yuval N.,author.(CARDINAL)333760;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 409-476) and index.Prologue -- Part I: Human networks. What is information? -- Stories : unlimited connections -- Documents : the bite of the paper tigers -- Errors : the fantasy of infallibility -- Decisions : a brief history of democracy and totalitarianism -- Part II: The inorganic network. The new members : how computers are different from printing presses -- Relentless : the network is always on -- Fallible : the network is often wrong -- Part III: Computer politics. Democracies : can we still hold a conversation? -- Totalitarianism : all power to the algorithms? -- The silicon curtain : global empire or global split? -- Epilogue -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Index."For the last 100,000 years, we Sapiens have accumulated enormous power. But despite all our discoveries, inventions, and conquests, we now find ourselves in an existential crisis. The world is on the verge of ecological collapse. Misinformation abounds. And we are rushing headlong into the age of AI--a new information network that threatens to annihilate us. For all that we have accomplished, why are we so self-destructive? Nexus looks through the long lens of human history to consider how the flow of information has shaped us, and our world. Taking us from the Stone Age, through the canonization of the Bible, early modern witch-hunts, Stalinism, Nazism, and the resurgence of populism today, Yuval Noah Harari asks us to consider the complex relationship between information and truth, bureaucracy and mythology, wisdom and power. He explores how different societies and political systems throughout history have wielded information to achieve their goals, for good and ill. And he addresses the urgent choices we face as non-human intelligence threatens our very existence."--
Subjects: Large print books.; Informational works.; Information behavior; Information networks; Information technology;
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Nexus [sound recording] : a brief history of information networks from the Stone Age to AI / by Harari, Yuval N.,author.(CARDINAL)333760; Athavale, Vidish,narrator.(CARDINAL)868587;
What is information? -- Stories: unlimited connections -- Documents: the bite of the paper tigers -- Errors: the fantasy of infallibility -- Decisions: a brief history of democracy and totalitarianism -- The new members: how computers are different from printing presses -- Relentless: the network is always on -- Fallible: the network is often wrong -- Democracies: can we still hold a conversation? -- Totalitarianism: all power to the algorithms? -- The silicon curtain: global empire or global split?Read by Vidish Athavale.For the last 100,000 years, we Sapiens have accumulated enormous power. But despite all our discoveries, inventions, and conquests, we now find ourselves in an existential crisis. The world is on the verge of ecological collapse. Misinformation abounds. And we are rushing headlong into the age of AI, a new information network that threatens to annihilate us. For all that we have accomplished, why are we so self-destructive? Nexus looks through the long lens of human history to consider how the flow of information has shaped us, and our world. Taking us from the Stone Age, through the canonization of the Bible, early modern witch-hunts, Stalinism, Nazism, and the resurgence of populism today, Yuval Noah Harari asks us to consider the complex relationship between information and truth, bureaucracy and mythology, wisdom and power. He explores how different societies and political systems throughout history have wielded information to achieve their goals, for good and ill. And he addresses the urgent choices we face as non-human intelligence threatens our very existence.
Subjects: Audiobooks.; Information behavior; Information networks; Information technology;
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Nexus : a brief history of information networks from the Stone Age to AI / by Harari, Yuval N.,author.(CARDINAL)333760;
Includes bibliographical references (pages [409]-476) and index.Prologue -- Part I: human networks. What is information? ; Stories : unlimited connections ; Documents : the bite of the paper tigers ; Errors : the fantasy of infallibility ; Decisions : a brief history of democracy and totalitarianism -- Part II: the inorganic network. The new members : how computers are different from printing presses ; Relentless : the network is always on ; Fallible : the network is often wrong -- Part III: computer politics. Democracies : can we still hold a conversation? ; Totalitarianism : all power to the algorithms? ; The silicon curtain : global empire or global split? -- Epilogue."For the last 100,000 years, we Sapiens have accumulated enormous power. But despite all our discoveries, inventions, and conquests, we now find ourselves in an existential crisis. The world is on the verge of ecological collapse. Misinformation abounds. And we are rushing headlong into the age of AI--a new information network that threatens to annihilate us. For all that we have accomplished, why are we so self-destructive? Nexus looks through the long lens of human history to consider how the flow of information has shaped us, and our world. Taking us from the Stone Age, through the canonization of the Bible, early modern witch-hunts, Stalinism, Nazism, and the resurgence of populism today, Yuval Noah Harari asks us to consider the complex relationship between information and truth, bureaucracy and mythology, wisdom and power. He explores how different societies and political systems throughout history have wielded information to achieve their goals, for good and ill. And he addresses the urgent choices we face as non-human intelligence threatens our very existence."--
Subjects: Informational works.; Information behavior; Information networks; Information technology;
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Head in the cloud : why knowing things still matters when facts are so easy to look up / by Poundstone, William,author.(CARDINAL)171005;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 299-323) and index.Introduction: Facts are obsolete -- Part One: The Dunning-Kruger effect -- 1. "I wore the juice" -- 2. A map of ignorance -- 3. Dumb history -- 4. The one-in-five rule -- 5. The low-information electorate -- Part Two: The knowledge premium -- 6. Putting a price tag on facts -- 7. Elevator-pitch science -- 8. Grammar police, grammar hippies -- 9. Nanoframe -- 10. Is shrimp kosher? -- 11. Philosophers and reality stars -- 12. Sex and absurdity -- 13. Moving the goalposts -- 14. Marshmallow test -- 15. The value of superficial learning -- Part Three: Strategies for a culturally illiterate world -- 16. When dumbing down is smart -- 17. Curating knowledge -- 18. The ice-cap riddle -- 19. The fox and the hedgehog.Looks at the state of knowledge in the American public, and demonstrates how many areas of knowledge correlate with quality of life, politics, and behavior, arguing that being knowledgeable has significant value even when facts can be looked up with little effort.
Subjects: Knowledge, Theory of.; Big data.; Information behavior.;
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Looking for information : a survey of research on information seeking, needs, and behavior / by Case, Donald Owen,author.(CARDINAL)761878; Given, Lisa M.,author.(CARDINAL)854727;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 389-473) and indexes.Part 1. Introduction, typical scenarios, and history of research -- pt. 2. Concepts relevant to information behavior -- pt. 3. Models and theories of information behavior -- pt. 4. Research designs and methods for studying IB -- pt. 5. Reviewing and critiquing research."The 4th edition of this popular and well-cited text presents a comprehensive review of more than a century of research on information behavior (IB) and related topics with over 1500 citations to relevant works. The book is intended for students and scholars in information studies, education, communication, health, and other disciplines interested in research on people's information activities. This book is used regularly in doctoral and masters-level courses examining IB, information practices, reference services, and information retrieval. In addition to now being co-authored, this new text includes significant structural and content changes from earlier editions. The initial two chapters introduce IB as a multi-disciplinary topic that is a research focus in many disciplines, providing several scenarios in which people's information behaviors raise important research questions. The third chapter provides a brief history of research on the seeking and use of information, and how these activities have evolved over the decades. Chapter four begins with a discussion of what is meant by the terms 'information' and 'knowledge', and examines the assumptions behind the usage of such concepts. Chapter five discusses the concept of 'need', what it means to have 'information needs', and how they are addressed. The sixth chapter identifies and describes many related concepts (such as learning, browsing, and sharing information). Twelve models of information behavior (an expanded list from earlier editions) are illustrated in chapter seven, and many others are discussed. Chapter eight reviews various paradigms and theories informing IB research. Chapter nine examines research designs and methods invoked in IB studies, with an expanded discussion of qualitative and mixed methods approaches. The tenth chapter provides specific examples of IB studies by context, such as social or occupation"--
Subjects: Information retrieval.; Information behavior.; Human information processing.;
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Nexus : una breve historia de las redes de información desde la Edad de Piedra hasta la IA / by Harari, Yuval N.,author.(CARDINAL)333760; Ros, Joandomènec,translator.(CARDINAL)524096;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 473-570) and index.En Nexus, Harari contempla a la humanidad desde la amplia perspectiva de la historia para analizar cómo las redes de información han hecho y deshecho nuestro mundo. Durante los últimos 100.000 años, los sapiens hemos acumulado un enorme poder. Pero, a pesar de todos los descubrimientos, inventos y conquistas, ahora nos enfrentamos a una crisis existencial: el mundo está al borde del colapso ecológico, abunda la desinformación y nos precipitamos hacia la era de la I.A. Con todo el camino andando, ¿por qué somos una especie autodestructiva?\n\nA partir de una fascinante variedad de ejemplos históricos, desde la Edad de Piedra, pasando por la Biblia, la caza de brujas de principios de la Edad Moderna, el estalinismo y el nazismo, hasta el resurgimiento del populismo en nuestros días, Harari nos ofrece un marco revelador para indagar en las complejas relaciones que existen entre información y verdad, burocracia y mitología, y sabiduría y poder. Examina cómo diferentes sociedades y sistemas políticos han utilizado la información para lograr sus objetivos e imponer el orden, para bien y para mal. Y plantea las opciones urgentes a las que nos enfrentamos hoy en día, cuando la inteligencia no humana amenaza nuestra propia existencia. La información no es el principio activo de la verdad; tampoco una simple arma. Nexus explora el esperanzador término medio entre estos extremos.--Amazon.com.
Subjects: Informational works.; Information behavior; Information networks; Information technology; Spanish language materials.;
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Living in data : a citizen's guide to a better information future / by Thorp, Jer,author.;
Includes bibliographical references.Living in data -- I data you, you data me (we all data together) -- Data's dark matter -- By canoe and caravan -- Drunk on Zima -- Number of grown sheep that were sheared -- Do/until -- A lossy kind of alchemy -- The rice show -- Paradox walnuts -- St. Silicon's Hospital and the map room -- Te Mana Raraunga -- An internet of what -- Here in dataland."A provocative, eye-opening, example-laden exploration of our current and future relationship with data"--
Subjects: Information visualization.; Information behavior.; Statistics.; Quantitative research.; Big data;
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The misinformation age : how false beliefs spread / by O'Connor, Cailin,author.(CARDINAL)826568; Weatherall, James Owen,author.(CARDINAL)339877;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-250) and index."Why should we care about having true beliefs? And why do demonstrably false beliefs persist and spread despite consequences for the people who hold them? Philosophers of science Cailin O'Connor and James Weatherall argue that social factors, rather than individual psychology, are what's essential to understanding the spread and persistence of false belief. It might seem that there's an obvious reason that true beliefs matter: false beliefs will hurt you. But if that's right, then why is it (apparently) irrelevant to many people whether they believe true things or not? In an age riven by "fake news," "alternative facts," and disputes over the validity of everything from climate change to the size of inauguration crowds, the authors argue that social factors, not individual psychology, are what's essential to understanding the persistence of false belief and that we must know how those social forces work in order to fight misinformation effectively."--Publisher's description.
Subjects: Errors; Errors; Truthfulness and falsehood; Truthfulness and falsehood; Information behavior.; Information behavior; Information behavior; Common fallacies.;
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Fake news and alternative facts : information literacy in a post-truth era / by Cooke, Nicole A.,author.(CARDINAL)606150;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Introduction -- The information behavior of it all -- The illusion of Internet savvy -- Critical thinking and metaliteracy -- Conclusion."Talk of so-called fake news, what it is and what it isn't, is front and center across the media landscape, with new calls for the public to acquire appropriate research and evaluation skills and become more information savvy. But none of this is new for librarians and information professionals, particularly for those who teach information literacy. Cooke, a Library Journal Mover & Shaker, believes that the current situation represents a golden opportunity for librarians to impart these important skills to patrons, regardless of their age or experience. In this Special Report, she demonstrates how. Readers will learn more about the rise of fake news, particularly those information behaviors that have perpetuated its spread; discover techniques to identify fake news, especially online; and explore methods to help library patrons of all ages think critically about information, teaching them ways to separate fact from fiction. Information literacy is a key skill for all news consumers, and this Special Report shows how librarians can make a difference by helping patrons identify misinformation"--Provided by publisher.
Subjects: Information literacy.; Information behavior.; Media literacy.; Fake news.;
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