WIGO - what is going on

WIGO: what is going on

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An important aspect of intelligence and judgement is the ability to tune into the world.

Vickers calls this process Appreciation, while Weick calls it Sensemaking.

The world we are trying to "tune into" (appreciate, make sense of) is partly in our heads (or in our systems) and partly "out there".

Some people refer to this world as "reality". But the term "reality" is presumptive, because we don't know (and we may never know) how much of it is external, how much of it is fixed/absolute or dynamic/relative.

So we prefer to use the term WIGO - WHAT is going on, what IS going on, what is GOING on, what is going ON.

Our knowledge and understanding of WIGO is rarely direct, but is mediated (screened) by technology and systems.

We pick up the world through television and other media, through web portals and Google, through monitoring instruments and management information systems.

Scientists learn about the world using telescopes and particle accelerators, scanners and filters.

Technology and Perception

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Transference and CounterTransference

Trusting in Appearances - Deception in the Wizarding World

Screen

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All social systems are technically mediated. We get an increasing amount of our information about our social world through technical media: email, telephone, management information systems, television, Reuters newswire, internet. These technologies screen information for us, screen information from us.

The computer offers information as services through a screen. The screen is both literal and metaphorical. It is a surface on which the data are presented, and also a filter that controls what the user sees. The screen is a two-sided device: it both reveals information and hides information.

Our knowledge and understanding of what is going on (WIGO) is rarely direct, but is mediated (screened) by technology and systems. We pick up the world through television and other media, through web portals and Google, through monitoring instruments and management information systems. This is also true for scientists, who learn about the world using telescopes and particle accelerators, scanners and filters.

The Give and Take of Information
Technology and Perception

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