Social media platforms present a perplexing duality, acting at once as sites to build community and a sense of belonging, while also giving rise to misinformation, facilitating and intensifying disinformation campaigns and perpetuating existing patterns of discrimination from the physical world.
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The Currency of the Attentional Economy: The Uses and Abuses of Attention in Our World
By Jordan Schoenherr on March 31st, 2022 in Articles, Editorial & Opinion, Ethics, Human Impacts, Magazine Articles, Social Implications of Technology, Societal Impact
By failing to attend to the source, disinformation can be stored along with information, making it difficult to distinguish the good penny from the bad penny.
Vaccines, Public Health, and the Law
By Johnna Wallace on July 21st, 2021 in Articles, Editorial & Opinion, Magazine Articles, Social Implications of Technology
Disease prevention due to successful vaccination is a double-edged sword as it can give the illusion that mass vaccination is no longer warranted. Antivaccination movements are not completely absent throughout history, but for example, most recently, parents have been declining childhood vaccines at alarming levels [2, S9]. Safety concerns and misinformation seem to be at the forefront of these movements.
Information Paradox : Drowning in Information, Starving for Knowledge
By ieeessit on June 29th, 2017 in Editorial & Opinion
We are living in an age of information. Staggering amounts of information are collected, stored, and widely disseminated. Yet, we… Read More