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What Is Information?
A novel way of looking at information challenges longstanding dogmas—from a preeminent German thinker It is widely agreed that we live in an “information age,” but what exactly is information?This small, seemingly facile question is in fact surprisingly difficult, and it has occupied many of the best philosophical minds of the modern age.In this wholly original addition to the quest to understand information, German philosopher Peter Janich argues that our understanding of information is based in the much broader history of scientific naturalism—the belief that science is a fundamental aspect of the world and not a human contrivance.His novel critique of this widespread dogma grounds science in human life practices and wrestles with the very fundamentals of the scientific way of understanding reality. Offering new perspectives on the major contemporary fields of communications technology, neurobiology, and artificial intelligence, What Is Information? provides a deep look into humanity in an information age.Its arguments show ways of reconciling the sciences and the humanities, shining new light on the relationship of science to the natural world.
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What Have Charities Ever Done for Us? : The Stories Behind the Headlines
When the coronavirus pandemic took hold early in 2020, charities were among the first to respond to the resulting social and economic distress.But recent scandals and a more critical climate have overshadowed the vital role they play. What Have Charities Ever Done for Us? rebalances the debate, using case studies and interviews to illustrate how charities support people and communities, foster heritage and culture and pioneer responses to crucial social, ethical and environmental questions.It also sets the historical context, examines cases that have attracted criticisms, analyses the political response and considers how the governance, transparency and independence of charities could be improved. Charities at their best are the conscience of society and benefit most people at some point in their lives.This book brings to life the breadth and depth of their work and the contribution they make to social progress.
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Effective Journalism : How the Information Ecosystem Works and What Journalists Should Do About It
This book provides journalists and the public with a broad overview of all the ways modern communication technologies and information approaches make it difficult for people to effectively find and interpret information, and what they can do about it.The public may have a general awareness that things like confirmation bias, content algorithms, and the backfire effect exist and can influence their behaviour, but this book will explain them in one place, in plain language.Journalists likewise know that their audiences are dealing with some of these issues, but continue to operate under the assumption that if they just publish facts, the truth will win out in the court of public opinion.The central argument of the book is that journalists and audiences can no longer afford to pretend that all information is competing on an even playing field, and that it is enough for journalists to simply publish “the facts.” Just as behavioural economics provided a new way of thinking about economics, one that understood people as non-rational actors, this book attempts to explain the reality, rather than the ideal, of how people seek and process information, and what journalists and their audiences can do to try to create an informed public in the face of that reality. For many American journalists, their work and their responsibility to the public is grounded in the concept of a marketplace of ideas.Journalists believe they should just report the facts, as neutrally as possible, and let the public judge those facts and put them in context.The marketplace of ideas requires individuals to rationally consider the information that is presented to them and weigh it against other available information.Through this process, bad ideas will be judged and dismissed, and good ideas will win out.We might like to believe that we are all capable of carefully and rationally evaluating information, but the evidence is clear that it is simply not true.If it were true, we would not observe such things as the continued persistence of flat-Earthers and moon-landing sceptics, and others who champion backward social ideas that were dismissed decades or even centuries ago.The fact that these ideas continue to persist tells us that the public is not engaging in a clear-eyed rational consideration of all the available verified facts.
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Bad News : What the Headlines Don't Tell Us
Bad News is a popular guide that helps you make sense of the news wherever it appears - print, broadcast or online.Peppered with examples from around the world, the book turns a serious subject into an enjoyable read.You will learn as you are entertained. Readers will discover all the tricks they need to work out whether to trust a story based on an anonymous source, when big numbers are really small and when small numbers are really big, why you should ignore what appears behind someone on the TV and much more.You'll even learn why you should always read stories in the Daily Mail backwards and when correlation is causation.But readers will also learn how ill-suited the news is to understanding and interpreting the modern world, even when it comes from honest journalists working for reputable outlets.The news has a role, but readers will learn how to ensure they don't confuse that with understanding the world.
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What I Saw : Reports From Berlin 1920-33
In 1920, Joseph Roth, the most renowned German correspondent of his age, arrived in Berlin, the capital of the Weimar Republic.He produced a series of impressionistic and political writings that influenced an entire generation of writers, including Thomas Mann and the young Christopher Isherwood.Roth, like no other German writer of his time, ventured beyond Berlin's official veneer to the heart of the city, chronicling the lives of its forgotten inhabitants - the Jewish immigrants, the criminals, the bathhouse denizens, and the nameless dead who filled the morgues.Warning early on of the threat posed by the Nazis, Roth evoked a landscape of moral bankruptcy and debauched beauty, creating in the process an unforgettable portrait of a city.
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What to Do When the News Scares You : A Kid's Guide to Understanding Current Events
This latest installment in the bestselling What To Do series tackles children’s feelings of anxiety around current events and what is portrayed in the news.Scary news is an inevitable part of life. This book can support and guide efforts to help scary news seem a bit more manageable for young people. Whether from television news reports, the car radio, digital media, or adult discussions, children are often bombarded with information about the world around them.When the events being described include violence, extreme weather events, a disease outbreak, or discussions of more dispersed threats such as climate change, children may become frightened and overwhelmed.Parents and caregivers can be prepared to help them understand and process the messages around them by using this book. What to Do When the News Scares You provides a way to help children put scary events into perspective. And, if children start to worry or become anxious about things they’ve heard, there are ideas to help them calm down and cope.This book also helps children identify reporters’ efforts to add excitement to the story which may also make threats seem more imminent, universal, and extreme. Read and complete the activities in What to Do When the News Scares You with your child to help them to understand the news in context—who, what, where, when, how—as a means of introducing a sense of perspective. Also available in Spanish Qué Hacer Cuando las Noticias te Asustan: Guía para Niños para Entender las Noticias Actuales
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What A Devastating Turn Of Events Vinyl
Alternative indie pop artist Rachel Chinouriri announces her longawaited debut album What A Devastating Turn Of Events, out Friday 3rd May 2024 via Parlophone. What A Devastating Turn Of Events is a culmination of the experiences, challenges and joys of Chinouriris life so far, explored through the prism of musical stylings honed through years of experimentation and creation. Evereclectic and brutally honest, the album traverses lifes light and shade, the writing and sharing a healing process for Rachel, and she hopes, her listeners. The album is now available to preorder and presave. In addition to the digital release, the physical formats include the Standard LP amp CD, exclusive red vinyl for HMV and select indie stores. Thereis also a Deluxe LP and 7 inch including 2 bonus tracks, cassette and CD 43 Zine that are all available exclusively via Rachels official store. Rachel will play her biggest sold out headline show to date at Londons KOKO on 6th March 2024. In celebration of the announcement of her debut album, Rachel also announced two US headline dates in New York and LA in March, plus a run of intimate instore shows across the UK in February.
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