OPINION | The flood of online misinformation calls for some deliberate ignorance - Actively ignoring low-quality information online can free up your limited resources of time and attention.
Rather than seeing it as a pure negative — a missing drawer in the cabinet of your brain — more recent work has focused on the benefits, even the necessity of
“As important as the ability to think critically continues to be, we argue that it is insufficient to borrow the tools developed for offline environments and apply them to the digital world. When the world comes to people filtered through digital devices, there is no longer a need to decide what information to seek. Instead, the relentless stream of information has turned human attention into a scarce resource to be seized and exploited by advertisers and content providers.
is — spoiler alert! — the phrase academics use to mean “the conscious choice to ignore information even when the costs of obtaining it are negligible.” “…a type of deliberate ignorance that entails selectively filtering and blocking out information in order to control one’s information environment and reduce one’s exposure to false and low-quality information.
Okay, doc — but how do you do that? The authors outline this schema of tactics targeting three different genres of: distracting/low-quality info, false/misleading info, and everyone’s favourite, trolls.
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