LANGUAGE AND SYMBOL IN THE INFORMATION AGE: "TURBULENCE" OF MEANINGS

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexander Soloviev ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Information Society ◽  
Information Overload ◽  
Information Age ◽  
Modern Human ◽  
Continuous Change ◽  
Symbolic Forms ◽  
Total Communication

The article is focused on processes of language and symbol functioning in the information age. The author analyzes linguistic and symbolic aspects of information society culture and concludes that the modern human lives in a situation of semantic “turbulence”: continuous change of linguistic and symbolic forms, information overload and changing modes of total communication.

TYPES OF CULTURAL WARS: FORMALIZATION, MEDIA REALITY, AUDIENCE REACTIONS

2017 ◽  
pp. 53-58
Author(s):  
Tetiana Zemliakova
Keyword(s):  
Ethnic Group ◽  
Information Society ◽  
Information Age ◽  
Identity Crisis ◽  
Main Function ◽  
Intellectual Skill ◽  
Cultural Codes ◽  
New Information ◽  
New Type ◽  
Development Of Identity

The article makes a comprehensive attempt to classify the cultural war as a semantic manipulative phenomenon in a new type of information society. The features and causes of development of identity crisis in the context of semantic manipulations of media reality are outlined. The urgency of the research is that a new information age is filled with insidious meanings that offers a system of the same insidious information procedural “performances”. In its turn they are embodied in long held images, forming an entirely new semantic system, and creating a space of permanent action, in which the choice remains for a person of a new information age, who reveals a considerable level of intellectual skill through dialogue or protest, or, on the contrary, acts according to normalized, “dictated”, imposed cult, from which the principles of whole culture are emerging. The result of individual outbreaks of resistance to “information performances” through the collective will of the nation, which seems to be a muscle, which is intensively practiced in the light of the Rusian-Ukrainian war, is justified by the need to preserve the skills of the society to create the nation, or the nation’s identity. One can concede that at the level of nation there is emergence of greatest amount of conflicts associated with the attempt to destroy the cultural core (the nucleus of the nation), which is formed from the norms, standards, values of a certain ethnic group. The main function of such a nucleus is providing for a system of formed cultural codes in order to preserve the nation’s identity. Summing up the results of the research, the author comes to the conclusion that the typology of the cultural war proposed is conditional, but it gives grounds to talk about the symptomatic appearance of semantic disorientation and the identity crisis. In this situation, understanding and differentiation on the basis of own “mental identifier” will become extremely important in order to consolidate the individuals in terms of new conditions.

scholarly journals Creating Model Citizens for the Information Age: Canadian Internet as Civilizing Discourse Policy

2007 ◽  
Vol 32 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Naomi Fraser
Keyword(s):  
Information Society ◽  
Information Age ◽  
Economic Restructuring ◽  
Economic Globalization ◽  
Global Context ◽  
The World ◽  
Dynamic Flows ◽  
The Government ◽  
Government Of Canada ◽  
Le Canada

Abstract: In the late 1990s, the Government of Canada launched a string of initiatives to usher its citizens into the “information age.” Recently, the federal government has announced “mission accomplished” in its pledge to become a “model user” of information technology, recognized around the world as the country most connected to its citizens. This paper interrogates the term “model user” as a marker of the changes occurring to techniques of government in our expanding information society. It proposes that the “model user” represents ways to negotiate the changing relationship between nation, state, and citizen associated with economic restructuring and signals a new civilizing discourse for citizen conduct amid the dynamic flows of information and ideas. Further, the “model user” suggests an emphasis on innovation that is implicated within larger discourses of economic globalization and the premium placed on adaptability and creativity. Finally, this paper makes vivid the connections between the “model user” and emerging discourses of Canada as a “model democracy” and Canadians as “model citizens” within the global context. Résumé : À la fin des années 90, le gouvernement du Canada a créé une série d’initiatives afin de lancer ses citoyens dans « l’ ère de l’information ». Tout récemment, le gouvernement fédéral a proclamé « mission accomplie” en ce qui concerne son objectif de devenir un « utilisateur modèle » des technologies de l’information, reconnu à travers le monde comme étant le pays le plus connecté à ses citoyens. Cet article interroge le terme d’ « utilisateur modèle » en tant que marqueur des changements qui affectent les techniques de gouvernance dans notre société de l’information toujours grandissante. Il propose que « l’utilisateur modèle », d’une part, illustre les façons de négocier la relation changeante entre nation, État et citoyen qui est associée aux restructurations économiques et, d’autre part, signale un nouveau discours civilisateur pour la conduite du citoyen plongé dans les courants dynamiques d’informations et d’idées. De plus, l’ « utilisateur modèle » met l’accent sur l’innovation et s’insère dans un discours plus large sur la globalisation économique et sur la valeur accordée à l’adaptabilité et la créativité. Finalement, cet article met en lumière les liens qui existent entre l’ « utilisateur modèle » et les discours émergents qui présentent le Canada comme une “démocratie modèle » et les Canadiens comme « citoyens modèles » au sein d’un contexte global.

Controlling the flood: when more of a dose is less

2014 ◽  
Vol 70 (3) ◽  
pp. 330-345 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. David Johnson
Keyword(s):  
Design Methodology ◽  
Information Overload ◽  
Information Age ◽  
Coping Mechanisms ◽  
Correct Interpretation ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Guiding Principle ◽  
Minimalist Approach ◽  
Narrative Literature ◽  
Narrative Literature Review

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore the flood of information that is inundating us. This flood makes it increasingly difficult to make sense of the world and arrive at the correct interpretation of events. Design/methodology/approach – Classic narrative literature review applying the dosage metaphor to the growing problem of information overload. Findings – The seven elements of dosage – amount, frequency, sequencing, delivery systems, contraindications, interactions, and dysfunctions – are used to discuss four major coping mechanisms – escape, attention, delegation, and creative destruction – for dealing with the flood. Each of the coping mechanisms has different entailments for the dosage elements. Originality/value – This essay develops a guiding principle for thinking about how we should cope with this central problem of the information age: suggesting a minimalist approach that offers the hope of clarity in acting in an age that increasingly overwhelms us.

scholarly journals Media Effects in Modern Neo-Information Society

Communicology ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 136-147
Author(s):  
A. A. Yefanov ◽  
E. N. Yudina
Keyword(s):  
Compassion Fatigue ◽  
Media Effects ◽  
Information Society ◽  
Information Overload ◽  
Spiral Of Silence ◽  
Sources Of Information ◽  
Moral Panics ◽  
The One ◽  
Media Manipulation ◽  
And Control

The article proposes a systematization of the main media effects cultivated in the modern neo-information society, draws conclusions about their relationship and interdependence. Information overload, which produces information noise, becomes the cause of media effects. All sources of information noise are currently predominantly embedded in the field of the Internet, which, on the one hand, determines information liberalism, and on the other hand, as a result of the provision of illusory freedom, the overall effect of media manipulation increases. In turn, information noises give rise to such a process as information anomie. Pseudo-news precedents, differentiated into fake and post-truth, based on the motives of media controllers, are considered as manifestations of information noise. Media fraud is a radical form of post-truthization of the information agenda. The classical media effects are the spiral of silence, moral panics, information fatigue, narcotic dysfunction and compassion fatigue, which must be considered from an interdisciplinary perspective – both in the context of social sciences and natural sciences (in particular, medicine), since the influence of media on society and inspired media effects become more and more systemic, targeted, spreading to all spheres of social everyday life, unrecognized by consumers, as a result of which they often turn out to be beyond regulation and control.

Information Overload, Stress, and Burnout: The Need for Contemplative Approaches in LIS

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ajit Piyati
Keyword(s):  
Information Overload ◽  
Information Age

The information age, despite its undeniable opportunities and benefits, is also rife with stress, information overload, and anxiety. Given this context, LIS unfortunately remains  largely silent about these affective concerns. One  way to address these concerns is for LIS to  embrace contemplative approaches as a mode of inquiry. As such, the paper offers a preliminary sketch of a “contemplative LIS” to allow LIS scholars and professionals to more effectively address issues such as overload and burnout. This exploration is based on the following four themes: 1) Attention; 2) Relationships; 3) Reflection; and 4) Action.

Mobile E-Work to Support Regional and Rural Communities

2009 ◽  
pp. 2061-2065
Author(s):  
Sirkka Heinonen
Keyword(s):  
Rural Communities ◽  
Information Society ◽  
Information Age ◽  
Evolutionary Process ◽  
Alternative Form ◽  
Cultural Patterns ◽  
New Information ◽  
Technological Developments ◽  
At Home

Telework, or e-work as it is now more frequently called in Europe, means working outside one’s regular workplace, utilising sophisticated ICT. E-work is an alternative form of organising work, a “love child” of the information society. E-work manifests itself in numerous forms and modes. These various solutions emerge as an evolutionary process along with the technological developments, economic pressures, and changes in socio-cultural patterns such as new information- age lifestyles (e.g., Castells, 1996; Heinonen, 2000). E-work can be carried out at home, in a telework centre or at any other facility. It can also be done as a mobile mode on a train, bus or some other vehicle, as well as at airports, railways and bus stations-in other words on the move from one place to another. Such mobile e-work is primarily increasing, owing to technological and social developments. ICT has become smaller in size, more portable and more efficient.

Creating Strategic Information for Oranizations with Structured Text

2008 ◽  
pp. 34-53 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roberto Penteado ◽  
Eric Boutin
Keyword(s):  
Information Society ◽  
Information Science ◽  
Information Overload ◽  
Competitive Advantages ◽  
Strategic Information ◽  
French School ◽  
Information Treatment ◽  
Set Up ◽  
Organizational Competence

The information overload demands that organizations set up new capabilities concerning the analysis of data and texts to create the necessary information. This chapter presents a bibliometrical approach for mining on structured text and data tuned to the French school of information science. These methodologies and techniques allow organizations to identify the valuable information that will generate better decisions, enabling and capacitating them to accomplish their mission and attain competitive advantages over the competition. The authors think that information treatment and analysis is the most critical organizational competence on our information society and that organizations and universities should take measures to develop this new field of research.

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