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| Title: | In Information's Shadow: Considering Failure as Noise, Misinformation, Error and Breakdown |
| Author(s): | Nguyen, Lilly Uyen; Keilty, Patrick; Doty, Colin; Lievrouw, Leah |
| Subject(s): | failure
noise breakdown error misinformation |
| Abstract: | This panel brings together several presentations on the topic of information failure, particularly through tropes of noise, misinformation, error, and breakdown. The four speakers will follow a "Pecha-Kucha" style of presentation (thirty slides at twenty seconds a slide) followed by group discussion. Leah Lievrouw will consider noise by linking recent discussions of big data with information systems theorists Bertalanffy, Shannon, and von Foerster. Colin Doty will discuss misinformation within recent debates over vaccine safety. Patrick Keilty will provide a textual analysis of Desk Set (1957) to demonstrate the way that error is gendered female in representations of technology. Lastly, Lilly Nguyen will provide a semiotic analysis of technological breakdown, drawing from ethnographic fieldwork of software in Vietnam. |
| Issue Date: | 2014-03-01 |
| Publisher: | iSchools |
| Citation Info: | Nguyen, L. U., Keilty, P., Doty, C., & Lievrouw, L. (2014). In Information's Shadow: Considering Failure as Noise, Misinformation, Error and Breakdown. In iConference 2014 Proceedings (p. 1238 - 1239). doi:10.9776/14253 |
| Series/Report: | iConference 2014 Proceedings |
| Genre: | Conference Paper / Presentation |
| Type: | Text |
| Language: | english |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/2142/47400 |
| DOI: | 10.9776/14253 |
| Other Identifier(s): | 253 |
| Publication Status: | published |
| Peer Reviewed: | yes |
| Rights Information: | Copyright 2014 is held by the authors of individual items in the proceedings. Copyright permissions, when appropriate, must be obtained directly from the authors. |
| Date Available in IDEALS: | 2014-02-28 |