Abstract:
Information, the link between the individual and the social, has become, in recent decades, a double-edged sword. Its main purpose has been mystified, so that it meets the political needs, of domination, of false values, most of the time, emissions of manipulation strategies in the service of globalization. The alert lifestyle has facilitated the acceleration of information flows ranked according to some deforming criteria. The shocking, the sensational or the absurd have begun to govern the interest of today's society, which, for the sake of ratings or in the absence of an education or media culture, values the insignificant and the non-value, adopting an irresponsible behavior regarding the interpretation and use of information. The decay of essence in favor of appearance seems to guide the internalization and processing of media artifacts. That is perhaps why the act of seeing is sometimes a dangerous one. And maybe that's why seeing doesn't always mean knowing. And maybe that's why, often, reading cannot be equivalent to understanding.
