My classmate, and roommate Niko writes in his Blog post titled “New Power” on April 15th, about the great power of information. He reflect on the articles written by Tirabassi and Greene, and mentions how the “ability to sort sources through BEAM and to establish a systematic approach for archives is useful for social sciences and humanities research.”
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We are both Psychology majors who do find the importance of being able to handle so many studies, and information. So while information does have a lot of power, it needs to be wielded by a person who knows how to use such information. What I mean by this is that there is so much information out there that there is no point of having that much power with a big search engine like JSTOR if you cannot use it properly and take the most important/relevant pieces of information from it.
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There is also more than just the one-dimensional aspect of information, which facts and equation-like sentences are categorized under. There are also intricate critical thinking and argument forming with the material we deal with in class. In our previous quarter, we talked about how people tend to skim through a lot of information, rather than spend time on one source to go deeper into one aspect. The students of our generation with such short attention spans have the tendencies to eat a lot of wings, rather than clean the bone as a metaphor for the way we read. This all goes back to Niko’s point about how we must learn how to deal with the “overload of information at our fingertips”
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