SOCA01H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Information Overload, Sound Bite, Foreign Exchange Market
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There is more knowledge than ever before: knowledge explosions. People have more access to knowledge than ever before: technology & communicaion explosion, encyclopedia"s have gone out of use because it cannot get updated as quickly. High moivaion to be knowledgeable: most people are not really moivated to gain knowledge. Hard to challenge them because they have much knowledge. Bush had a massive media presence & the media accepted his claims: new york times apologized years ater for taking bush"s claim as true without invesigaion. Did it so constantly so that everyone eventually believed him. Intelligence community has no clear answer on weapons of mass destrucion. Bush exerted massive pressure on them so they eventually concluded that saddam hussien had weapons although there was no clear evidence. Example of knowledge society: driven by technological revoluion. Ater every defeat, generals had to regroup to see where they were at in winning the war. Knew what was going on being of surveillance.
