#dtc356 Chapter 8 & 9

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Chapter 8 [What Nothing Says]

The main idea of this article is that information cannot be understood in just one way or another. We humans sometimes try to make things simple yet we make it more complicated for the others. That's why the information is categorized into types, such as explicit, implicit, or unspoken (known publicly as a commonsense). The organization of information is in the form of clusters which are interpreted specificly or generally according to specific people and sometimes it is understandable in one perspective but not in another.

This is crucial to my understanding as a DTC student because we need to be able to distunguish the kinds of information and to whom it is directed to so we are not falling into the rhetorical 'tricks' laid out by the manufacturers, publishers, business advertisement, etc. Often people see only one side, but they just simply or subconsciously ignore the other important facts (sometimes hidden or implied) that might be useful for them. This goes to all generations since perspectives on each individual on earth vary.

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Chapter 9 [Messiness as a virtue]

Messiness on the web world is inevitable since it resembles the basic method of how humans think. An individual or user may think of a matter in one way, however no one else can think of it using exactly the same way. Sometimes organization of matters that are too tidy under only one variable can result in the disorderliness of information; whereas the dispersion of things on the same ground can give out amazingly organized system of information that could represent the actual work mechanism for individuals. hence, the messiness in many circumstances may act as a way to organize things or information if people know how to manage or use it in certain ways.

This is important due to the fact that there is no possible way for someone to rule the net and apply all rules to everything because knowledge or information is too global and general. In order to break them down, we need the help of users around the world to accumulate data and spread them out. It is true that it will turn messy; nevertheless if an individual has learnt to understand, select, filter the information/metadata among the chaotic disorderliness, they are able to obtain more information than just out of extremely organized matters in which may lead to even worse lunatic information distribution.