Howard Rheingold, also working in this field, highlights the essential component of information literacy and therefore transliteracy; identification of the good, the bad and the just plain indifferent in the avalanche of information available. How to preserve some authority behind the creativity of new social media and mashups? Interestingly, Rheingold proposes de.licio.us and Google Scholar as the new citation tests ... possible indicators of authority. He does not dismiss the potential veracity of social and peer sources, merely proposes a variety of methods for filtering misinformation and errors. It is a 180 degree turn around to realise that the vast amount of information on the web can equally be used for cross checking as obfuscation; cross-checking that is not restricted to one media type ... print and images can be cross referenced for any one event or query ... but it is very much up to the individual to do so. Ironically the very volume of data on the web may facilitate detection of useless data, and will the increasing 'hive' mindset ensure more widespread communication of such judgements?
Monday, March 15, 2010
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