Abstract

This chapter provides an innovative approach to evaluating information and its normative relation to well-being, through the concept of wisdom. Wisdom understood as a form of metainformation or metaknowledge provides a direct conceptual and practical link between the concepts of information, knowledge, and well-being, and generally a direct link between digital media, communication ethics, and well-being. As such, the concept of wisdom allows for a direct normative evaluation of the impact of information on well-being. As a metaepistemological term, wisdom is a form of metaknowledge that includes both knowledge that and knowledge how. Wisdom is capable of providing an individual with the necessary reflective knowledge and understanding in making judgments and reaching decisions that assist and guide that person in attaining well-being, both for oneself and for society generally.