Fragmentation
Individualization
Emotionalization
The erosion of the collective basis for Trust
“Positioning the fragmentation of information at the level of experience highlights how intimately the ongoing fragmentation of the collective understanding of society’s knowledge base relates to the information infrastructure within which everything from everyday life to politics plays out. Both the foundation of trust and the possibilities for the creation of shared meaning are called into question.
“This points to a number of interrelated challenges that contribute to the destabilization of information — fragmentation, individualization, emotionalization, and the erosion of the collective basis for trust — all of which are, clearly not created, yet exacerbated by society’s commercial, algorithmic information infrastructure, and a qualitatively new form of politicization of information, where information is increasingly tailored to the form provided by multi-sided platforms such as search engines, recommender systems, intelligent household assistants, streaming services, or dating apps, cannot be overstated. It is becoming increasingly important to understand how algorithmic systems work and how they are trained to perform in specific situations, while at the same time they are becoming ever more elusive and embedded in society and everyday life at all levels,” (Haider & Sundin, 2022, p. 5).
Haider, J., & Sundin, O. (2022). Paradoxes of Media and Information Literacy. Taylor & Francis.
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