Not only is it becoming increasingly difficult to distinguish fact from opinion, but also to understand why certain content ends up in our feeds, recommendations or search results in the first place. Yet it’s more important than ever to understand it. This is where infrastructural meaning-making comes into play, and it’s something that the datafied society needs to understand.
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If we think about phrases, cliches, or old adages in the English language, many of them are rooted in a color, or the lack thereof. Many of these phrases also speak to the phenomenon of disinformation, its spread, and its entrenchment in our daily lives. This short essay will introduce several such colorful phrases.
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Social Informatics (SI), in its broadest sense, is an approach for understanding interactions between various societal systems and information-communication technologies.
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The integration of the Bekenstein bound and Landauer’s principle represents a milestone in comprehending the limits and principles governing information and energy. By weaving these concepts together, we illuminate pathways that span various disciplines, enriching our comprehension of the natural world’s intricacies.
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We examined the reliability of image recognition services by conducting a cross-comparison across three popular image recognition services: Google Vision AI, Microsoft Azure Computer Vision and AWS Rekognition.
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The study advocates for educational institutions to incorporate digital literacy training and privacy education on a proactive basis. Also, it stresses the importance of ongoing monitoring and evaluation to ensure that the benefits outweigh the challenges. Finally, the wise and appropriate use of social media may reframe and elevate students’ academic journeys.
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The World Wide Web has enabled knowledge sharing on a global scale. Through groups known as social question and answer (Q&A) communities, people can ask questions and collaboratively co-create knowledge. The question the study investigates is simple: Are the interactions resulting from the questions posted influenced by how the question is framed?
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The scientific community is currently grappling with a reproducibility crisis, marked by an alarming increase in the number of published articles that have been retracted due to errors or fraudulent practices. This crisis can be attributed to various factors, including the intense pressure to publish, insufficient training in research methods, and flaws in the peer review process.
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In the digital age, understanding decision-making processes has become increasingly vital. It is germane for individuals, businesses and managers to understand the complexities of overloaded data to navigate the information era properly and make intelligent decisions. The availability of information and the quick speed of technological improvements have substantially altered how decisions are made.
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Academic conferences are incredibly valuable opportunities for researchers. They offer a chance to share research and preliminary findings, receive feedback, and improve an ongoing work. Regrettably, the ability for researchers from many countries to attend academic conferences is increasingly becoming a challenge due to the resulting economic hardships that the Covid-19 pandemic (among other factors) has caused. These issues, which are being felt globally, have had an especially significant impact on (semi)peripheral regions.
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