Word: misinterpretation
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Dates: during 2010-2019
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...picture is worth a thousand words—and a few thousand worthless ones. An article in The New York Times titled “A Desolate Princess of the Bronx? Not Then, Not Now” provides evidence of how easy it is to misinterpret an image. The iconic picture published on Halloween 1991 that showed then-six-year-old Guissette Muniz standing alone amidst a scene of urban poverty provoked readers of the newspaper to contact the family offering gifts or expenses-paid travel opportunities—yet Muniz herself never felt impoverished. With two employed parents...
...real time. This trend extends beyond Twitter or Facebook—The New York Times website is also updated before the next issue is in print. But this bulk of information, instead of providing us with a more holistic view of the world, is really just allowing us to misinterpret the wealth of information we have access to. It is firing too much at us, too fast. It’s very hard not to choke if you’re drinking from a fire hose...