Is the technology that is supposed to make our lives easier, actually overwhelming us and making our lives more difficult? And if so, how do we escape the negative effect of technology overload? (tags: artikel information_overload)
Info-Overload existiert seit der Bibliothek von Alexandria. Die Annahme, die Informationsberflutung sei erst mit dem Internet ber uns gekommen, ist falsch. Es kommt nur auf die richtigen Filter an. (tags: internet information_overload)
by Eoin Whelan, Robin Teigland. With the increasing processing power and plummeting costs of multimedia technologies, our ability to ubiquitously access and disseminate information continues to become indefinitely easier. However, emerging research shows that we are struggling to process information as fast as it arrives. The problem of information overload is a significant one for contemporary organisations as it can adversely affect productivity, decision-making, and employee morale. To combat this problem, organisations often resort to investing in technical solutions such as business intelligence software or semantic technologies. While such technical approaches can certainly aid in making sense of information overload, less attention has been directed at understanding how social behaviours within inter-personal networks the primary conduit of information have evolved to deal with the surge of digital information. Using social network analysis and interview evidence from two information intensive firms, this study finds a small number of information specialists who emerge to filter useful information into and around the intra-organizational network. The article concludes with a discussion of the theoretical and practical implications of our findings. (tags: information_overload netzwerk)
Last week, Megan Garber wrote an excellent piece on whether Twitter is speech or text. Yet despite a number of insightful and timely points, Id argue there is a fundamental flaw with the very dichotomy of the question. While Twitter can certainly be both, its inherently neither. And trying to classify it within one or both of these conventional checkboxes completely misses the point that we might, in fact, have to invent an entirely new checkbox. (tags: twitter information_overload journalismus)
Knapp ein Drittel der Deutschen (31 Prozent) f�hlt sich von Informationen regelrecht �berflutet. Weitere 30 Prozent beschleicht dieses Gef�hl zumindest manchmal. Das sind Ergebnisse einer Umfrage des Instituts Aris in Hamburg. Von den �ber 65-J�hrigen beklagen sogar 39 Prozent den sogenannten Information Overload. Die J�ngsten kommen am besten mit der Infoflut aus Internet, Handy, Fernsehen, Radio oder Printmedien zurecht: Hier f�hlt sich nur jeder Siebte h�ufig �berflutet. Die Umfrage unter 1000 Deutschen ab 14 Jahren hatte der Bundesverband Informationswirtschaft, Telekommunikation und neue Medien (Bitkom) in Auftrag gegeben.
People used to be able to interrupt you at work only by phoning or walking into your office. Now they can do so by e-mail, instant messaging, mobile phones and BlackBerries or personal digital assistants.
This paper presents the results of a case study of a (perceived) problem of information overload from e-mail in a large firm. We argue that for CMCs to be effective there is a need to establish a ‘context’ in which the message can be interpreted.