In the 21th century, most individuals are interdependent with each other through various socioeconomic webs such as telephone, internet, television, etc. With this wide range of media, it also brought tremendous amount of information. Even though people say ‘more is better than less’, to be little more realistic, we should take seriousness while choosing appropriate information. Then now, can we sure that all the information around Internet is apt to believe and accept without any doubt or check? Some say ‘If the information is cited from trustful and well-known resource, any doubt or clarification is unnecessary’. On the other hand, in the information-dominated society including indiscriminate quality, all the users should be responsible to distinguish proper information from various resources and keep object view-position.
First of all, today’s public media are ruined with their selfish profit or pressure from authority. For example, if a reporter or journalist tried to reveal a company’s or government’s corruption, they block it early as paying illegal money or expose it with little changes which seem favorable to their images. Thus, what we, weak citizens, can do is instead of being unconditional, endeavoring to figure out the information as accurate as possible and to be object. This is the least and the most important responsibility for citizens towards network world. Through my all school days, every teacher emphasized the importance of resource’s accuracy and work cited toward the courses. Like this, the bibliography is flowing up as the one of required educational courses for teenagers.
In addition, all the results are distinct upon its particular purpose, view-point and focus. Thus, if you leaned to just one research, it is unlikely to get object position. While read through various information from many resources, you can realize new information that you’d not known or in detailed. There is a saying in Korea, ‘Even a sheet of paper is better to be together.’ This means it is more valuable as more and more people cooperate, but it can be also applied in this point; information from many writers is also the result of cooperation from many people’s thoughts and assertions.
To sum up, even though it is not just about information quality, even in communication with others, it is required the effort listening many communicators’ thinking in objective position. If you are inclined to a individual’s subjective assertion absolutely, indeed can we force with overflowing information in the 21th century’s information-oriented society?
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