In Information's Shadow: Considering Failure as Noise, Misinformation, Error and Breakdown

Nguyen, Lilly Uyen; Keilty, Patrick; Doty, Colin; Lievrouw, Leah

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Title

In Information's Shadow: Considering Failure as Noise, Misinformation, Error and Breakdown

Author(s)

• Nguyen, Lilly Uyen
• Keilty, Patrick
• Doty, Colin
• Lievrouw, Leah

Issue Date

2014-03-01

Keyword(s)

• failure
• noise
• breakdown
• error
• misinformation

Abstract

"This panel brings together several presentations on the topic of information failure, particularly through tropes of noise, misinformation, error, and breakdown. The four speakers will follow a ""Pecha-Kucha"" style of presentation (thirty slides at twenty seconds a slide) followed by group discussion. Leah Lievrouw will consider noise by linking recent discussions of big data with information systems theorists Bertalanffy, Shannon, and von Foerster. Colin Doty will discuss misinformation within recent debates over vaccine safety. Patrick Keilty will provide a textual analysis of Desk Set (1957) to demonstrate the way that error is gendered female in representations of technology. Lastly, Lilly Nguyen will provide a semiotic analysis of technological breakdown, drawing from ethnographic fieldwork of software in Vietnam."

Publisher

iSchools

Series/Report Name or Number

iConference 2014 Proceedings

Type of Resource

text

Language

english

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http://hdl.handle.net/2142/47400

DOI

https://doi.org/10.9776/14253

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