Ecolinformationologue: the new librarian?
While infopollution is constantly increasing, librarians and other information professionals now have a job ecologist information more than ever resonance. However, to participate in this ecology Information should it the fruit of a specialty of the professionals' information or not, everyone should he become aware of this problem like what happens to the environment?
1) The librarian and the information ecology
Managing information is especially to distinguish between genuinely useful information and infopollution. Who better than the librarian can track this information pollution ? So the pollution continues to grow, especially with the opening of a multitude of information networks including the Internet is the most fertile soil. Each product information, useful mostly to himself, but networking is combined with other information equally unhelpful. The vicious circle then continues to accelerate the worsening state of the information environment. The librarian must be the ecologist information. But also a personal work, it is essential that users form first to the existence of this pervasive before infopollution highlight the real dangers. Everyone must become ecologist this information, so is the future of information-communication!
2) All "infoécologues?
How not produce of infopollution? Select the information to be provided. Distinguish infopollution information "clean".
Here are 3 themes (among hundreds of others) it is necessary to address in order to counteract the poisoning informational in which we are sinking. This pollution is worse than air pollution such as it is propagated in real time to the 4 corners of the earth, feeding on itself, and especially seems to have a promising future given the limited attention that it carries its contributors! However the problem of information ecology awareness seems more and more people in the image of the important fight anti-spam or anti-advertising stickers that are popping up everywhere, for example ...
So here is the ideal approach to follow for an information ecology:
- Know what the infopollution (its different forms, its propagation, its producers, ...), knowing its dangers
- Do not produce infopollution
- Deny and counter infopollution
- Raising his family to the existence and risks of infopollution
short, an approach that approximates strangely traditional ecology. However, contrary to what one might think, where the information is a critical threshold!
3) Towards a generalized poisoning!
The infopollution is everywhere. Our mailboxes are overflowing with spam, advertisements are present even in our food, news flourish useless trivia (Mr. Brown's dog bit the cat from Madam Lustucru!). Worse! We are ourselves producing the infopollution ... Paradoxically, I also write this I produce a kind of infopollution. Why? Because some have already dealt with this subject! Yes we are suffocating. Yes we are sinking in a society not of information but the infopollution.
short, what? Understand to act!
4) Different forms of infopollution
In fact what do we not infopollution? I spoke in effect since earlier and provided you do not know more. Here are various things that I would call infopollution:
- Advertising Information
- useless or useful information to a small circle of people but made available to others
- Information already dealt with that can be accessed (eg In a blog post dealing with the same subject with the same arguments that section of a site B)
- Information that annoying person who receives
- Information which, by its abundance Noit
essential information - information or too little too consistent
Finally, when we see the complexity of the problem of infopollution, do not you think that there is a tendency towards a trade full for his salary?
5) The écolinformationologue
Ecolinformationologue ... That's the name that could be the specialist in the fight against the infopollution. A sort of policeman of the information ecology. Its mission: training and public information, the fight against pollution. Create such a business is as essential, nay stratégique for a company for example. Imagine this specialist filtering information internally and externally ... then imagine the comfort and time savings for all employees of the company! The écolinformationologue can then present itself as the strongest link in the company, the cycle of its operation, and especially support essential for information professionals!
Unfortunately, even today, this job does not really exist. the workload is assumed by the information professionals, who are already overwhelmed, do what they can. A
when awareness of the usefulness of this new profession?
the wise ...
Ultimately, the information ecology is an issue central to the business of information professionals. However, it is each person must be aware of this problem and fight against the infopollution. I finally stresses the need for a specific job écolinformationologue order to alleviate this infopollution or default of the counter to prevent it pollutes all systems of information!
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