I talked on the topic of hot news being forgotten. More specifically, some of the once-high-profile news events have been forgotten by the Internet. I have googled the definition of news. News, is a kind of literary style that truly records society, spreads information, reflects important events of every moment and transmits information through media.
Nowadays, once a news event represented by the supervision report of public opinion is exposed by the media, it will always spread rapidly through the Internet platform, even overtaking all news, creating the Hot news and attracting the attention of the public at a time. However, as time goes by, the hot news events that once attracted attention gradually disappear, and the related websites and comments are deleted, even as if it never happened. At the same time, due to the dependence on the Internet, the memory of many netizens is gradually blurred or even disappeared with the loss of Internet memory.
So my enquiry is, why are the news events that have been closely watched forgotten by the Internet? What affects the memory of the Internet? Is it because the information spread too fast in the era of large Numbers of data, too much information gradually covers up the previous news events? Or is it influenced by some power that these high-profile content is restricted to dissemination, hidden or blocked? So will these gradually missing information pose a challenge to the dissemination of information?
Therefore, in my proposal, I plan to explore the process of news being forgotten through experiments of visual and printed materials. I did some sketchmaking this week. I tried to extract the headlines from the news report and blurry the pictures and text through the Color Halftone visual way. It’s like the picture has been reposted countless times, and the picture pixels will become lower and lower.
In the context of printing, information is printed by dots to plane way to gradually present clear information and picture. On the contrary, in the same context, whether the information can be carried out from clear to fuzzy or not, the clear picture gradually blurs into various dots, which means to express the process that the information is gradually forgotten. The use of this more transparent paper to print these headlines is to show the stacking effect of information, and the overload of information leads to the gradual disappearance of many news that has been widely watched.
In this visual way, you can see the content clearly from a distance, but when you want to go into the details, you will find that the content is blurred and difficult to identify, just like the news you may have heard, but when you want to search for details, the news has been forgotten and deleted by the Internet.
In the process of my research, I found that the “right to be forgotten” in the law may be the key to causing hot news to be forgotten and deleted by the Internet. In the era of big data, everyone’s personal data and information are becoming increasingly transparent. This “right to be forgotten” protects people’s personal information to some extent by means of human intervention on the Internet, but challenges people’s “freedom of speech” and “public right to know”. So I will be the next thing I will continue to study.