http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/digitalnatives/2008/10/31/does-more-information-mean-less-quality/ Berkman investigators, fellows, research assistants and interns sound off about all things Digital Natives Wed, 02 Dec 2009 00:40:38 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/digitalnatives/2008/10/31/does-more-information-mean-less-quality/comment-page-1/#comment-2144 The Wrap Up: November 3 — Vad NU! Mon, 03 Nov 2008 10:40:27 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/digitalnatives/?p=236#comment-2144 [...] Does More Information Mean Less Quality [...] [...] Does More Information Mean Less Quality [...]

]]> http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/digitalnatives/2008/10/31/does-more-information-mean-less-quality/comment-page-1/#comment-2129 Digital Natives at Berkman study digital generation | New media, new society Sun, 02 Nov 2008 02:54:45 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/digitalnatives/?p=236#comment-2129 [...] the Swiss University of St. Gallen are doing to understand a generation born digital on the blog Digital Natives. So what are the issues which arise from the quality of productions created and distributed via the [...] [...] the Swiss University of St. Gallen are doing to understand a generation born digital on the blog Digital Natives. So what are the issues which arise from the quality of productions created and distributed via the [...]

]]> http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/digitalnatives/2008/10/31/does-more-information-mean-less-quality/comment-page-1/#comment-2120 Hann Fri, 31 Oct 2008 21:18:33 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/digitalnatives/?p=236#comment-2120 There was an interesting piece in an old issue of The Atlantic about Wikipedia that mentioned a similar point: by virtue of being "bottom-up" rather than "top-down" systems in which information is generated by the masses rather than by restricted and vetted by a small group of experts, we can actually arrive at a collective understanding of truth - that rather than "the truth" being something out there, truth becomes something arrived at by consensus. Given that, our ways of determining "information quality" may have to change as well. There was an interesting piece in an old issue of The Atlantic about Wikipedia that mentioned a similar point: by virtue of being “bottom-up” rather than “top-down” systems in which information is generated by the masses rather than by restricted and vetted by a small group of experts, we can actually arrive at a collective understanding of truth – that rather than “the truth” being something out there, truth becomes something arrived at by consensus. Given that, our ways of determining “information quality” may have to change as well.

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