Abstract
Information revolution may incur information pollution, noting that industrial revolution incurred environmental pollution. By information pollution we mean the presence and spread of undesirable messages in the human society, in quantities large enough to produce significantly adverse effects on human activities and social life. Information theory is mainly concerned with probabilistic uncertainty of messages, whereas information pollution research pays attention to values of messages: a message can be essential, useful, useless, harmful, or even poisonous. In this paper we discuss the information pollution phenomenon, present statistics of information pollution (e-mail collected on Internet). We propose a quantitative index to measure information pollution and highlight various potential approaches to modeling information pollution behavior.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 3124-3129 |
| Number of pages | 6 |
| Journal | Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics |
| Volume | 4 |
| State | Published - 1996 |
| Externally published | Yes |
| Event | Proceedings of the 1996 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics. Part 4 (of 4) - Beijing, China Duration: 14 Oct 1996 → 17 Oct 1996 |
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This output contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
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SDG 12 Responsible Consumption and Production
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