SOCA01H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Knowledge Society, Jean-Paul Sartre, Intelligentsia
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Knowledge society: there is more knowledge than ever. Knowledge explosions: people have more access to knowledge than ever before. Past: had to go to the library to look up information: high motivation to be knowledgeable. Inglehart (empowerment: system level changes individual level changes system level consequences, elite manipulation --> george bush and selling war on iraq. Bush had a massive media presence & the media accepted his claims. Relies on ignorance: falsely links saddam hussein and 9/11. Example of knowledge society: driven by technological revolution: ww1-information underload. Information to generals were passed through wires along the ground that sometimes broke, and the voices were cracked: gulf war on information overload. Ur(cid:448)eilla(cid:374)(cid:272)e, targeti(cid:374)g a(cid:374)d (cid:272)o(cid:373)(cid:373)u(cid:374)i(cid:272)atio(cid:374) i(cid:374) (cid:862)real ti(cid:373)e(cid:863) Knowledge-ignorance paradox: besieged by information explosion. Ex. what happens when you bring your car is checked up sensories, machine checks up your car: increased social distribution of ignorance. Threat informational overload: 1960s more scientific papers published than all previous human history.