ABSTRACT
The ubiquity of the term ‘information’ (and its kin, information society, explosion and overload) means that at a day-to-day level we risk taking information for granted. What we need is a way to problematise the notion of information, to view with fresh eyes our ways of noticing, sharing and interpreting it. That is one of the challenges we face in this chapter. Another challenge is that we are only human; and so our cognitive abilities are very limited; we are inattentive and easily distracted; we are poor at noticing things that we do not expect to see; and we misinterpret coincidences as causal relationships (e.g. Chabris and Simons, 2010).
