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True Enough: Learning to Live in a Post-Fact Society (Audiobook)
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True Enough: Learning to Live in a Post-Fact Society (Audiobook)
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from NielsenGW
Information is all around us. From the Internet to 24-hour news networks to experts to neighbors, every place you look, there is someone with information. But what transforms information into fact, and what exactly are facts? How do we interpret them? How do we separate "Fact" from "fact"? When d...
from rivkat
Manjoo has compelling stories to tell-how the Swift Boat Veterans defamed John Kerry, how theories that the 2004 elections were stolen persist-and persuasive science backing up his arguments that we mostly believe the facts we want to believe. The book is ultimately defeated, however, by two rela...
from dmcolon
"True Enough" by Farhad Manjoo, is another in the long line of books that argues that new technologies are changing the way we approach knowledge. Manjoo's contention is that the new media has made it much easier for people to selectively choose what information they process. This allows them to ...
from fr3dt3ch
The author presents a convincing theory about how we are creating our own versions of "truth" (reality), aided by the multiple dispersion of information on the Internet and in the media. This dispersion and repackaging of facts only adds to fragment society. This tends to conflict with our genera...
from tyroeternal
While the conclusion of the argument came across as a bit overextended, there is an interesting point to what he is saying. Sheltering ourselves through selective input is not something I would consider to be a new occurence, and limited only to new media.
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