The sages say: "He who owns knowledge, he owns the world!" This thesis can equally well be applied to obtaining information in modern human society. Today, people and information are closely related. And here the rule works well: the first to find out is the winner, and the one who is late - loses.
Man and Information
Knowing the environment, people are always in contact with the information field. At the beginning, at the first stage of interaction, information is absorbed and collected. This helps (and sometimes makes) correctly assess the events occurring in society and the world. So, at the second stage of interaction, the data is analyzed, their quality is processed by the brain. And then a personal opinion is developed, a judgment about the event. As a result, a person and the information received by him merge as much as possible, acquiring a personal aspect.
The origin and meaning of the word
The very concept of “information” comes from the Latin word information (clarification, information). This concept is a general scientific category in which there are many definitions and interpretations. If you do not go too deep into the discrepancies, then we can say that in everyday life information is identified with the obtained information, knowledge in oral, visual, written, electronic form (in our days of universal computerization). Information in human life plays an important role. For example, it allows you to increase the level of knowledge on a specific issue of interest to the individual. And the exchange of information forms a more voluminous idea of the subject of discussion.
Information in human life
Since ancient times, ownership of information was considered the destiny of the elect. It is no secret that in some ancient communities simple people were not allowed to study or everything was done so that knowledge possession became difficult to access. Priests and high priests, monks in secret monasteries, healers, in every way concealed information from commoners, not allowing saints to be holy.
Today, a person in the world of information gains access relatively freely to any source of interest to him. Openness of information is one of the basic conditions of a free society. This is directly connected with the development of the World Wide Web, which encircles all continents of the globe. Man and information in the material world of modernity are interconnected much more closely than in previous eras. And any average citizen of a free country has the right to free access: you can’t hide an awl in a bag!
Mass media
In today's social society, the media plays a crucial role for a person. With their help, people will learn about the main and secondary events in the field of science, culture, politics, and other industries. Initially, these were newspapers and radio, which published articles and verbally told what had happened. Then came TV as a powerful lever, affecting many minds so far. After, with the development of the Internet, electronic media that can be called truly mass media are certain: some articles and videos gain millions of views, which means that a great many people in many countries of the world have used them.
Value and Properties
In our fast-paced world, which is not accidentally called the information age, much depends on it: the development of society, economic and political, the very life of people, their safety and health. Analyzing the properties of information obtained from various sources (as a rule, experienced journalists, for example, use at least three confirmed ones), correspondents evaluate its comprehensibility, relevance at this stage, usefulness to society, ethics, and reliability. Moreover, in different situations, different properties of the same data come to the fore. For example, a news broadcast on TV should contain a maximum of reliability and relevance about the events of today or the past week. A popular science article in an electronic newspaper contains a maximum of useful and interesting information, confirmed by scientific data.
In today's world, the concepts of "man" and "information" are as close as possible. We can say that without information there is no modern person, and without a person there is no information that is processed, published and analyzed by people!