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# Wiki Tutorial

## A Reflection On Danah Boyd's 'Agnotology and Epistemological Fragmentation'
A link to this can be found [here](https://points.datasociety.net/agnotology-and-epistemological-fragmentation-56aa3c509c6b)

![cartoon image of multiple people with their heads buried in the ground](https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/wwfeatures/live/976_549/images/live/p0/3d/mg/p03dmg3w.jpg)

This reading raised some really interesting points. It is interesting how the internet, which started as a place for people to become informed, has also now become a place where one can be just as easily ill-informed. Before the internet and social media the only people who were able to send information to a group or even the world were professional news reporters, journalists, etc. Nowadays, anyone with access to the internet can spread any information they want to and are able to draw an audience. An example used in this reading was the Christchurch mosque attacks. The terrorist was able to broadcast his actions to the whole world, something that would have been impossible to do in the past. 
The article also mentioned how people are able to exploit online data voids and how it can be difficult for the user to realise they have stumbled across one. I find it interesting that people are able to manipulate the content that people see when they search for something online. I often think it is the responsibility of the user to make sure the information they are consuming is factual. However, perhaps this has been made harder to do with these data voids and the amount of information that is available these days.

