The notion that the collective is all-wise by default, and that is desirable to channel it with few and controlled tools that should be considered truthful.
Term coined by Jaron Lanier
Information that is accepted as true by all of the members of a community.
A process in which a transmitter, be it a person, a group of people, or an organization, sends a message through mass media (among others, newspapers, radio, television or film) to a large number of receivers.
The study of management, processing, and transmission of information.
Term coined by Claude E. Shannon
An overwhelming amount of transmitted digital information and the subsequent need to process it.
Term coined by Clay Shirky
The tendency to recall, prioritize or interpret information in a way that confirms one’s beliefs or ideas, while discarding or devaluating alternative ideas and interpretations that would contradicts such beliefs.
The process by which analog media such as images, sounds and texts, are processed and get a reproduction in a digital object to be used in digital media supports, channels and networks.
Digital objects associated with real objects that can stream information without Internet connection, enriching a user’s experience of the surrounding environment.