Faculty of Art

Drawing and Painting

Fiona Enright

The Martyrdom of Aaron Swartz; Civil Disobedience.

"The effects of this paradigm shift were not only felt in the realm of advertising, but also in the way we experience information-seeking overall. Whether initially intended to or not, introducing an explicit bias, like product promotion, into an IS tampers with the structure of knowledge. The magnitude of Google’s prominence means that any alteration within their system will inevitably change how and why we seek out information. In this sense, Google has introduced a new episteme, a new way of seeking-out, finding, and structuring information. For the purposes of this paper, this episteme will be referred to as the digital episteme." Fiona Enright 'Section IV, Part b' The Human Element: Information, Knowledge and Art in the Digital Episteme, 2021