May 4 at 3:55pm
Entertainment
value versus information value
Many times people
use the views count on a given video as a measure of how "good" the
video is but it should be obvious that many factors can be involved in that
video views count.
But many times
that views count is a reflection of the "entertainment value" of the
given video.
In this context
many fake or hoax videos have very high views count and mainly that is due to
the fact that many people find such videos very entertaining and amusing,
people producing these videos have a very good understanding of their target
expectations and they know how to exploit these expectations, these people are
filling an existing "need".
Now many times
videos or content with very high information content receive "poor"
attention because they do not have great entertainment value, many subjects and
analysis require efforts on the people trying to learn it and not many people
are willing to make that effort.
For example
Mathematics is at the root of any modern technology, from GPS, internet,
satellites,cell phones, etc. but Mathematics is not a very popular subject
matter in general because it usually requires mental effort and concentration
that depart from any popular entertainment value.
Real knowledge
always requires effort and dedication that is why the more advanced that a
given subject is the less people that will have a working knowledge of the
given subject.
Real advanced
knowledge in any given subject always had been and always will be elitist and
the exclusive domain of very few that find the given subject amazing and
entertaining.
