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We also need to talk about the information environment in the same way and right now

it's being used by whatever scholar is talking about it to mean whatever they're looking

at. So some people think that it's just

digital media. Some people think it's just news media. This is a problem. Again, I would suggest

that what we're talking about is the space where people process information to make sense of the world and to do that we use tools from

alphabets to AI to process information into things we can share like outputs of spoken word to

videos and everything else that will come along in the future.

And the information environment then is all those three things

and the relationships between them and the conditions that end up affecting them,

like economy and education, etc.

So we need to look at that bigger system and see how

we all sled it. Great once we have that then maybe we can go and start looking at

information ecosystems. Now early days to say this because we haven't been looking at it but maybe we can look at factors that can be measured over time

Maybe it's things like infrastructure how it's maintained how people access it

literacy levels,

capacity for actually processing information,

the means through which they do that,

the quality of the, let's say news content that they're accessing.

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