We can stay closely informed and still find that the overall picture does not quite come together.

Events, reactions, interpretations, corrections - all appearing together, without the structure that once made them easier to grasp.

This piece looks at that shift directly: at what has changed in the space between access and understanding.

https://associationredefine.substack.com/p/why-understanding-the-world-feels-harder

#Media #Democracy #DigitalCulture #SocialMedia #News #InformationOverload

In this era of information overload, censorship works by drowning us in too much undifferentiated information, crippling our ability to focus. These dumps, combined with the news media's obsession with campaign trivia and gossip, have resulted in whistle-drowning, rather than whistle-blowing: In a sea of so many whistles blowing so loud, we cannot hear a single one.
-- Zeynep Tufekci (NYT Nov. 4, 2016)

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #ZeynepTufekci #Censorship #InformationOverload

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #ChacoCanyon #Panopainting #NewMexico

Humanity has created a global scale mental health experiment with always on internet through devices in our pockets.

Its a complete disaster so far. Its only getting worse

#MentalHealth #phones #screens #AlwaysOn #InformationOverload #ConstantDistraction

Finding the ‘will’ to step away from the onslought of information (not to say doom scrolling or subjugation to msm propaganda) and coming back to everyday tasks seems to be the way out of the psychological hell. Where to find that ‘will’ if anger and grief is botteld up without an outlet?

This article may help find a way. In the end, it is all about making a decision (truly making a decision, not a wish). It’s a fine line between staying sane and balanced, keeping informed and switching off from anything but the immediacy of homelife.

#Coping #Psychology #InformationOverload #PentUpAnger
#Frustration #Grief #SocialMedia #DoomSCrolling #ShoutingIntoTheVoid

https://www.thenerve.news/p/philippa-perry-cope-constant-news-war-trauma-social-media-overwhelm

In this era of information overload, censorship works by drowning us in too much undifferentiated information, crippling our ability to focus. These dumps, combined with the news media's obsession with campaign trivia and gossip, have resulted in whistle-drowning, rather than whistle-blowing: In a sea of so many whistles blowing so loud, we cannot hear a single one.
-- Zeynep Tufekci (NYT Nov. 4, 2016)

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #ZeynepTufekci #Censorship #InformationOverload

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #ChacoCanyon #Panopainting #NewMexico

Warum Vergessen eine Superkraft ist

#Vergessen #Superkraft #Gedächtnis #Neurobiologie #Schlaf #SmartForgetting #InformationOverload #Demenz #Overfitting #KI

Lesen: https://www.matthiaszehnder.ch/wochenkommentar/warum-vergessen-eine-superkraft-ist
Hören: https://www.buzzsprout.com/1788913/episodes/18677778
Sehen: https://youtu.be/yJgcQVNO-y8

Look away?

How do you cope with what’s in the news every day?

I’m constantly torn between looking away and trying to understand more about what’s really happening. There’s a kind of dark fascination in watching the depths we’re seeing in the US right now.

#Politics #Society #Media #Democracy #Authoritarianism
#ClimateCrisis #HumanRights #InformationOverload
#Coping #Reflection #Europe #USPolitics

Warum wir trotz Internet schlechter informiert sind
und was wir dagegen tun können.

#informationoverload #newsavoidance #digitallesen #newsfeeds #journalismus #künstlicheintelligenz #ki

Lesen: https://www.matthiaszehnder.ch/wochenkommentar/trotz-internet-schlechter-informiert/
Hören: https://www.buzzsprout.com/1788913/episodes/18636522
Schauen: https://youtu.be/XbGzySdYNqY