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"The best response to manipulative and persuasive choice architecture might therefore be to empower users to become choice architects of their own proximate digital environment (self-nudging) or self-restrict engagement with certain information sources (deliberate ignorance) rather than attempt to exercise a superhuman ability to detect and resist all attempts at influence. By contrast, false information and AI-powered persuasive techniques such as targeted political advertisement can best be met by people exercising existing competencies (e.g., reasoning and judgment of information reliability) or learning new ones (e.g., lateral reading).
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The idea that deliberate ignorance can be an ecologically rational strategy does not align with classical ideals of epistemic virtue and rationality (see Kozyreva & Hertwig, 2019), which presume that information and knowledge have intrinsic value for decision makers because they allow them to accumulate more evidence (e.g., Carnap, 1947), acquire better understanding, and ultimately make more informed and rational choices (e.g., Blackwell, 1953; Good, 1967). However, deliberate ignorance is a reasonable strategy in many situations—for instance, in the interest of impartiality and to shield oneself from biases (e.g., see MacCoun, 2020)."
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Anastasia Kozyreva, Stephan Lewandowsky, & Ralph Hertwig (https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1529100620946707)
“Robert and Dennis (2005) uncover an intriguing paradox about media containing variant levels of 'social presence,' the ability to convey the psychological impression that people are physically present. The use of so–called rich media high in social presence increases motivation but decreases the ability to process information, whereas lean media low in social presence decreases motivation but increases the ability to process information. Thus rich media (high in social presence) has the simultaneous, contradictory capacity to enhance and hamper performance. Such a paradox poses a fascinating question for investigators of information overload: if any medium of any level of social presence — from e–mail to face–to–face communication — raises the risk of information overload (either via decreased motivation or decreased processing capability), what can we infer about the pervasive nature of information overload itself?
~ Anthony Lincoln (https://firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/3051/2835)
"there is so much of my self to feel, and so little representation of me through all the image spam I consume, that I'm compelled to share me, share me as I interact with the frivolity of the world online, share my direction and thoughtlessness and music and mess so that I can be present. I inject it all into this object that is a simple tool to access information to some, or a portal of body transposition and poetical self-record to others."
~ Leena Joshi, "On Multiples of Self" (http://earthsen.net/writing / https://thenorthernspecial.org/)
"We use the Internet every day and most of us take it for granted that you click on a link and your computer displays the new page for you to read. But how does that work? What happens to get a web page from wherever they are stored to your eyes?
The short answer that you have probably read before is that the page is transferred from a web server to your browser over the internet. This is true but what does it mean?
It would be a lifetime's work to explain every facet of the process but what follows is broadly speaking the series of steps taken for you to see this page."
~ Andrew Stephens (https://sheep.horse/2017/10/how_you_are_reading_this_page.html)