Truth, trust and technology

Beckett, Charlie

doi:10.1080/01296612.2017.1455571

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“…Within this framing, democracy itself is seen to be challenged by changing information flows, including the growth in alternate media providers (Beckett & Livingstone, 2018) and increasingly volatile information environments (Haider & Sundin, 2021). Blamed on progressively more personalised AI systems, which fragment shared context and meaning (Haider & Sundin, 2021, p.4), the attack on the fabric of society is also attributed to organisations that operate outside of ethical and institutional accountability structures (Beckett & Livingstone, 2018, p.9). This ‘information crisis’ is consequently seen to be constituted by the instability of established, public‐facing knowledge systems.…”

Section: The Rise and Use Of Information Crisismentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Since about 2016, however, the ‘information crisis’ has been most associated with the circulation of and access to the wrong type of information, namely ‘fake news’ and misinformation. Within this framing, democracy itself is seen to be challenged by changing information flows, including the growth in alternate media providers (Beckett & Livingstone, 2018) and increasingly volatile information environments (Haider & Sundin, 2021). Blamed on progressively more personalised AI systems, which fragment shared context and meaning (Haider & Sundin, 2021, p.4), the attack on the fabric of society is also attributed to organisations that operate outside of ethical and institutional accountability structures (Beckett & Livingstone, 2018, p.9).…”

Section: The Rise and Use Of Information Crisismentioning

confidence: 99%

“…‘Information crisis’ has not yet been named the word or even the person of the year, but it is becoming an increasingly visible term within Information Studies. Most recently coming to prominence within work exploring the COVID‐19 pandemic (Xie et al, 2020), ‘information crisis’ and its cognate, the crisis of information, features within scholarly work, (e.g., Haider & Sundin, 2021), PhD programmes (University of Borås, 2022) and library outreach strategies (Diaz, 2017) as well as various forms of policymaking (Beckett & Livingstone, 2018; Toby & Notess, 2020). Yet, for all this attention, ‘information crisis’ maintains what Camargo and Simon (2022, p.2) refer to as a “fuzzy ontology,” wherein inconsistent and ambiguous meaning is “thrown around with little justification” (Pabst, 2022, p.1).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Information in Crisis Mode? A Conceptual Analysis of the Information Crisis Discourse

Hicks,

Noone

2023

Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Tech

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The concept of ‘information crisis’ is playing an increasingly prominent role within information studies literature and practice. Yet, the term is rarely defined and its meaning often remains both inconsistent and ambiguous. This opacity calls for a greater grounding of the term if it is to become a key concept in the field, including how it operates and what it enforces. This short paper draws upon information studies literature to present a conceptual analysis of the concept of ‘information crisis.’ From this analysis, we argue that an ‘information crisis’ framing is typically used to either establish the status quo, through centring challenges to established information ecosystems, or maintain the status quo, by outlining the operations needed to renew or protect these landscapes. These findings illustrate how ‘information crisis’ can obscure the very contexts of inequality and injustice through which crisis operates and delimits the possibility of changing/disrupting the status quo.

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Section: The Rise and Use Of Information Crisismentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: The Rise and Use Of Information Crisismentioning

confidence: 99%