What Is Information Pollution?
Information pollution refers to the disorderly flooding of information into disasters. With the development of science and technology and the advancement of information tools in human society, information and knowledge are rapidly increasing, and sometimes a state of super dense information or chaos occurs. This situation creates difficulties for people in selecting and judging information. The clutter of information will burden people's nervous systems. For those who do not need information, this information is noise and will endanger people's health. The increase of information will inevitably lead to false information, such as false news reports; there will also be people who deliberately create false information to obtain benefits, such as deliberately manufactured fake news reports, fake advertisements, fake economic intelligence, and so on. There will also be some harmful information in the society, such as erotic books and superstition books, which endanger people's physical and mental health. The pollution that comes with the expansion of information is information pollution. To solve the problem of information pollution, we must first develop the information industry, reduce the impact of personal information, and let some of the information be handled by social organizations. The second is to develop information processing tools to allow artificial intelligence machines to process part of the information instead of the human brain. Third is to make every effort to ensure the scientificity and accuracy of information, strengthen social supervision and the legal system, and severely punish the acts of creating false and harmful information. In July 1990, China's Supreme People's Court and Supreme People's Procuratorate formulated the "Regulations on the Specific Application of Laws in Handling Criminal Cases of Obscene Articles." Some western countries now propose to establish information insurance to compensate people for the losses caused by harmful books and obscenities. [1]
Information pollution
- Information pollution refers to the mixing of harmful, deceptive, and misleading information elements in media information, or the toxic and harmful information elements contained in media information exceed communication standards or moral bottom lines, causing damage to the transmission ecology, information resources, and physical and mental health , Damage, or other adverse effects. The problem of network information pollution is accompanied by the birth of the network, and it is becoming increasingly serious. The rapid development of the Internet not only transcends the traditional media geography, but also transcends the psychological divide of human beings. The convenience brought by the Internet to human communication and communication has created huge economic benefits and social value for human society, but it has also brought about very serious information pollution problems.
- In the electronic network environment, information has proliferated, and information pollution, or information obstacles, has also occurred. It includes:
- Information overload or information overload.
- A situation where an individual or system accepts information that exceeds its processing capabilities or effective use. This often leaves information users at a loss. Information is used to eliminate uncertainty. Excessive information has increased people's uncertainty and insecurity. The information load of each person or structure has a certain limit. When people receive more information than they can digest, they often suffer from "information overload anxiety", which leads to waste of financial, material and human resources. Moreover, information overload has brought new information scarcity. Because the amount of information is too large, the ocean of information cannot find the information it needs, resulting in a decline in the absorption and utilization of social information. in
- The rapid development of the Internet not only transcends the traditional media geography, but also transcends the psychological divide of human beings. The convenience brought by the Internet to human communication and communication has created huge economic benefits and social value for human society, but it has also brought about very serious information pollution problems.
- which performed
- Information pollution Network information pollution is manifested in three levels: one is the pollution of useful information on the network; the other is the pollution of useless information on the network; and the third is the pollution of harmful information on the network.
- The pollution of useful information in the network is mainly manifested in the value of transmission for a single piece of information, but due to the large number of copies of the same information (such as: authoritative information, hot information, major news, anecdotes, etc., have been reproduced, so that the same Excessive information duplication), or information management is out of order
- Network Information Pollution
- The pollution of useless information in the network mainly manifests as no transmission value for a single information, and the existence of such information not only occupies network storage space, but also causes information obstruction. For example, non-meaningful information posted on a web blog or forum; network information left by various exercises on a network platform; network information useful to one or more objects; or has been discarded, but The information dirt still remaining in the network is useless information.
- Harmful information in the network is the main component of network information pollution and the most harmful source of information pollution.
- Mainly manifested as illegal information (such as disrupting social order, infringing on the privacy of citizens, humiliating others' reputation, dignity, false information, etc.), information that violates public morals (such as educational information, brainwashing information, counter-mainstream value information, and disrupting general ethics Information, etc.), potentially harmful information (such as violence, misleading information about blood, ulterior motivated information, information with false psychological hints, foolishness, slavery, etc.).
- harm
- I. Destroy the network information ecology and threaten human survival. There is a large amount of terrorism, separatism, anti-human information, aggressive and threatening information in the network. The spread of this information will directly threaten the peace and stability of the world, the security and prosperity of the country, and the race. Prosperity and well-being. For example, the terrorist threat information released by terrorists on the Internet will cause tension and fear in the people of the countries and regions concerned; the spread of offensive speech between hostile countries or parties on the Internet will cause group hostilities and conflicts, and even cause War or political turmoil; and the concealment and whitewashing of major information may bring disasters to the entire human race. If concealment of a major communicable disease epidemic will bring death threats to more people; such as the possibility of misreporting and misreporting. Disasters such as weather and geological disasters may directly lead to the loss of lives.
- Second, the crisis of trust is exacerbated, leading to mistakes in decision-making. In recent years, the credibility of network information has been greatly reduced by false news, rumors, false advertisements, and mischief information appearing frequently on the Internet. Based on various unscrupulous purposes, criminals use the virtuality of the network platform to publish all kinds of false information, and do scams, extortion, robbery, and publicity, making the entire network information platform gradually become an untrustworthy information base. . After the untruthful information was exposed time and time again, people gradually instinctively rejected the Internet, which led to a crisis of people's trust in network information. False network information has also misled people's decision-making. The malicious speculation of some events by the online media has deceived and deceived the public to a certain extent. For example, the speculation of real estate by the online media has contributed to the rising housing prices in various places. Many buyers are bewildered by it; for example, the deliberate overestimation of PetroChina's A shares by online forums has directly affected PetroChina's listing price. PetroChina immediately locked up speculators after listing at a high price of 48 yuan per share and plummeted all the way. From this point of view, misleading network information may directly lead to wrong decisions.
- Third, it causes various problems of network information pollution. Research shows that in the face of computer, communication satellite, and media technologies becoming more integrated, the audience s cortical information input and output are gradually unbalanced, and some netizens have begun to experience physiological and psychological discomforts, such as Internet addiction and realistic phobia , "Internet voyeurism", "Internet nudity", and more. It is not uncommon to have a variety of physical diseases caused by long-term addiction to the Internet, such as various physical diseases caused by playing games, prolapse of lumbar intervertebral discs and spinal deformation due to long-term Internet access, and instant blindness caused by continuous Internet access for too long, etc Wait.
- Fourth, the information explosion leads to lack of information and increases the cost of information utilization. The vast network of information seems to have everything and everything, but with the rapid expansion of the amount of information, the same information is repeated, the similar information is mixed, and the contradictory interpretation of the same topic information, resulting in a lot of useful information but not useful Therefore, there is a relative lack of information. With the congestion of a large amount of information in the information channel, people s human, material and financial resources for searching for useful information on the network have increased significantly. The marginal cost of network information use has increased, and the credibility of the information has decreased. This has led to the unit cost of information utilization. Increase. Therefore, information pollution also brings huge losses to human economic and social development.
- V. Information pollution highlights the negative educational function of the Internet, and bad information on the Internet subverts mainstream moral concepts. When the real society is resolutely condensing a social moral system recognized by the general public, the anarchy of online speech provides a hotbed for the spread of various sub-healthy values, and realistic school education has repeatedly preached The values and moral system gradually collapsed in the face of the rebellion and maverickness of the "new new human", and the culprit leading to this ending was the erosion of cyber spam