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CLASSICAL KNOWLEDGE AND KNOWLEDGE IN THE NEW MEDIA
Urszula Żydek-Bednarczuk1
CLASSICAL KNOWLEDGE AND KNOWLEDGE IN THE NEW MEDIA
Publication language: Polish
Journal article
Transformations No. 1–2 (88–89) 2016, Publication date: 14 May 2016
Keywords: classical knowledge, collection of knowledge in new media, folksonomy, disknowledge
Abstract This article presents reflections on the complex phenomenon of information and knowledge in the new media. The introduction is a brief overview of knowledge from the point of view of classical knowledge with its taxonomy, classification and falsification. A very important part of the article is to understand what gives knowledge a certain structure (distinction of „significant”, „bright” knowledge), but also a deeper insight into the essence of knowledge. Another part of the paper deals with the information appearing in the new media and its uncontrolled flow. The attention is drawn to the economy of perception and mechanisms of selecting information on the Internet. Particular attention was given to Wikipedia as a collection of knowledge in the new media. The concept of folksonomy and the idea of an open collaboration society shows the dimension of this type of knowledge. Due to the widespread use of such knowledge in science and everyday life the question is asked: is there a new paradigm of knowledge/disknowledge?
Uniwersytet Śląski w Katowicach, Wydział Filologiczny
E-mail: urszula.zydek-bednarczuk@us.edu.pl