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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.
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"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?)...
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English
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"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...
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English
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"Search is as old as language. We've always needed to find something in the jumble of human creation. The first web was nothing more than passing verbal histories down the generations so others could find and remember how not to get eaten; the first search used the power of written language to build simple indexes in printed books, leading to the Dewey Decimal system and reverse indices in more modern times. Then digital happened. Besides having profound...
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Rowman & Littlefield
Pub. Date
[2024]
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English
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"This book will help readers identify strategies to understand, avoid and handle fake news, misinformation, disinformation, information overload, surveillance and privacy loss, cyberbullying, hacking and other security flaws, and online and IT behavioral conditioning"--
"It all started out so well: the online world began as an effective tool for communication that carried with it a great promise to level the playing field and eliminate borders. But...
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ALA Neal-Schuman
Pub. Date
2019.
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English
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"A Matter of Facts: The Value of Evidence in an Information Age highlights the critical value of records and archives as sources of evidence: as vital tools for supporting human rights and enforcing public responsibilities across society"--
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Special report volume 252
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U.S. Institute of Peace
Pub. Date
[2010]
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English