Knowledge illusion

The knowledge illusion , in English also illusion of knowledge , is understood to mean the disproportion between the subjectively reflected mental state of feeling well-informed and a state of objectifiable being -well-informed .

The knowledge illusion is the subjective assessment of knowing more than you actually know, that is, objectifiable. The term was used by the communication scientist Elisabeth Noelle-Neumann in 1986 to describe the discrepancy between the information presented by the media on the one hand and the performance of understanding and retention on the other.

For example, news broadcasts can lead to the illusion of knowledge by appearing to pretend “objectivity” and also demand higher credibility compared with the print media through images , which they are unable to maintain due to various factors ( e.g. gatekeeping , framing ).

See also

• illusion
• Mass communication
• Message flow
• Newsworthiness
• Decision theory
• Interpretation frame
• Framing in Communication Science

literature

• Roland Mangold: Digital emotions - where are the feelings in the media information offer? (PDF)
• Graham Silk-Eglit, Kenneth J. Kurtz: Types of Cognitive Content and the Role of Relational Processing in the Illusion of Explanatory Depth. Binghamton, New York

Individual evidence

1. ↑ see also Illusion of Explanatory Depth (IOED)
2. ↑ Winfried Schulz: Political Communication. Springer DE, 2011, ISBN 3-531-93094-X , p. 174
3. ^ Elisabeth Noelle-Neumann: Reading in the information society. (Gutenberg Yearbook 61) Gutenberg Society, Mainz 1986
4. ↑ Roland Mangold, Peter Vorderer , Gary Bente: Textbook of Media Psychology. Hogrefe Verlag, Göttingen 2004, ISBN 3-8409-1489-2 , p. 531