The Information Diet · A Case for Conscious Consumption by Johnson, Clay A. -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

The Information Diet Dedication SPECIAL OFFER: Upgrade this ebook with O’Reilly Preface

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I. Introduction

1. Lessons from Obesity

A Modern Epidemic The Birth of Industrial Agriculture A New Set of Consequences The Modern Diet

2. Information, Power, and Survival

Knowledge Is Power

The Arguments Against Progress

There Is No Such Thing as Information Overload

3. Big Info

Choice Lessons

The New Media The New Journalists

Seek and We Shall Profit

Churnalism

4. We Are What We Seek

Reality Dysmorphia This MSNBC Is Going Straight to My Amygdala Search Frenzy

5. Welcome to Information Obesity

Confident Ignorance Agnotology Epistemic Closure Filter Failure

6. The Symptoms of Information Obesity

The Connection Between Obesities Apnea Poor Sense of Time Attention Fatigue Loss of Social Breadth Distorted Sense of Reality Brand Loyalty

Symptoms and Severity

II. The Information Diet

7. Data Literacy

Search Filter Creation Synthesis

8. Attention Fitness

Willpower Measurement Elimination Training Distractibility Can Be Good

9. A Healthy Sense of Humor 10. How to Consume

Consume Consciously

Keeping It Clean

Consume Locally Low-Ad Diversity Balance Support and Fine Tuning

III. Social Obesity

11. The Participation Gap

The Scalability Problem Transparency

Transparency’s Dark Side Transparency’s Potential

Bridging the Gap Political Infoveganism

A. A Special Note: Dear Programmer B. Further Reading

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