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BURSTING THE FILTER BUBBLE: INFORMATION LITERACY AND QUESTIONS OF VALUATION, NAVIGATION, AND CONTROL IN A DIGITAL LANDSCAPE

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Date Issued:
2018
Abstract/Description:
The evolution of social media platforms and other public forums in the digital realm has created an explosion of user-generated content and data as a component of the already content-saturated digital landscape. The distributed, horizontal nature of the internet as a platform makes it difficult to ascertain value and differentiate between texts of varying validity, bias, and purpose. In addition, the internet is not an inanimate interface. As Pariser (2011) argues, content aggregators, such as Google, actively filter, personalize, and therefore limit each individual's access to information, in both range and type. This has created a crisis of information valuation and control. Importantly, conventional curriculum does not furnish students with the information literacy tools necessary for them to navigate the digital landscape effectively. Information miners and developers, including news organizations, are falling victim to this fallacy as well. Lankshear and Knobel (2011) posit that empowering navigation and control in the digital landscape requires a new mindset. This research offers a context-driven approach that acknowledges this new mindset, promoting "rhetorical consciousness" (Murphy et al., 2003) within the network and providing a framework to recognize, challenge, and co-create gatekeeping roles and mechanism as they increasingly shift to the individual.
Title: BURSTING THE FILTER BUBBLE: INFORMATION LITERACY AND QUESTIONS OF VALUATION, NAVIGATION, AND CONTROL IN A DIGITAL LANDSCAPE.
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Name(s): Hassan, Komysha, Author
Guenzel, Steffen, Committee Chair
University of Central Florida, Degree Grantor
Type of Resource: text
Date Issued: 2018
Publisher: University of Central Florida
Language(s): English
Abstract/Description: The evolution of social media platforms and other public forums in the digital realm has created an explosion of user-generated content and data as a component of the already content-saturated digital landscape. The distributed, horizontal nature of the internet as a platform makes it difficult to ascertain value and differentiate between texts of varying validity, bias, and purpose. In addition, the internet is not an inanimate interface. As Pariser (2011) argues, content aggregators, such as Google, actively filter, personalize, and therefore limit each individual's access to information, in both range and type. This has created a crisis of information valuation and control. Importantly, conventional curriculum does not furnish students with the information literacy tools necessary for them to navigate the digital landscape effectively. Information miners and developers, including news organizations, are falling victim to this fallacy as well. Lankshear and Knobel (2011) posit that empowering navigation and control in the digital landscape requires a new mindset. This research offers a context-driven approach that acknowledges this new mindset, promoting "rhetorical consciousness" (Murphy et al., 2003) within the network and providing a framework to recognize, challenge, and co-create gatekeeping roles and mechanism as they increasingly shift to the individual.
Identifier: CFH2000326 (IID), ucf:45733 (fedora)
Note(s): 2018-05-01
B.A.
College of Arts and Humanities, Writing and Rhetoric
Bachelors
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Subject(s): rhetoric
orality
digital rhetoric
ambience
new literacy
digital interface
Persistent Link to This Record: http://purl.flvc.org/ucf/fd/CFH2000326
Restrictions on Access: public
Host Institution: UCF

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