Information Society and the Phenomenon of Sliding Consumerism

Abstract

Today’s world is often called information-focused, but it can be equally referred to as pseudo informational, since it gives rise to increasing flows of both information and disinformation. Information redundancy reduces the reflection level as a person is not able to process huge volumes of information. As a result, the phenomenon of information consumerism (sliding consumerism) comes to the forefront – non-reflexive, superficial, with no criteria of differentiating between truth and myth.