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CJFreeman · Jul 20, 2005, 07:22 pm

Here's something I was thinking about; what do you think?

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People have a tendency to view information as data -- that is, isolated information to the exclusion of all other information -- not as a coherent, or overall context.

This is part of the reason why Dorothy Sayers and Neil Postman disparage of people's ability to comprehend: because people do not equate the ability to read with the ability to comprehend. Obviously a person has to comprehend in order to read, but in today's fractal world, information is slice-and-dice, and therefore understanding of what is expressed in the print medium is subjugated to, even disenfranchised from what is pumped through the television medium. Hence the reason why people have a harder time viewing information in context.

Think about it...

Cheers!
Christopher J. Freeman

SoccerfreakAB2 · Jul 21, 2005, 01:52 am

Can you give us another example. One slightly more in depth. I feel like I'm grasping this concept. Is it like how we categorize information on one topic separately from other topics and thus can make no connections between the two? Maybe I'm lost.

Jul 21, 2005, 01:52 am	#2 (permalink) (top)
SoccerfreakAB2 ???? Location: Novi. Michigan Posts: 2,163	Can you give us another example. One slightly more in depth. I feel like I'm grasping this concept. Is it like how we categorize information on one topic separately from other topics and thus can make no connections between the two? Maybe I'm lost.