Information overload (Athabasca University)

This is a copy from 6/8/2010. Original page can be found at this address http://ccism.pc.athabascau.ca/html/courses/global/info/ERGO/overload.htm

ARTICLES

• CNN - Health care workers overburdened by `information overload' - Jan. 28, 1996.
• Change and Information Overload: negative effects - by F. Heylighen, Feb 19, 1999. Principia Cybernetica Web
• We Have the Information You Want, But Getting It Will Cost You: Being Held Hostage by Information Overload - by Mark R. Nelson
• Seek and Ye Shall Find (Maybe) - by Steve G. Steinberg. Wired 4.05 - May 1996.
• Dying for Information? A Report on the Effects of Information Overload In the UK and Worldwide - by Paul Waddington, Reuters, United Kingdom. Since 1994, Reuters has conducted three studies into issues of information in the business world. The first, To Know or not to know: the politics of information, revealed that despite the profileration of office technology, we are still a race of information misers. The second, Information as an asset: the invisible goldmine, showed how companies failed to realise the value of information. In October 1996, Reuters conducted the first ever study into Information Overload, called Dying for information, which revealed the significant extent to which overload is becoming a problem in the information age. This paper examines the findings and implications of the this research.
• Information Anxiety - (Link Unavailable) - Summary of a book by Richard Saul Wurman. The great information age is really an explosion of non-information; it is an explosion of data. To deal with the increasing onslaught of data, it is imperative to distinguish between data and information. Information must be that which leads to understanding. Order doesn't equal understanding.
• Information Overdose - Research Study Identifies "Information Anxiety" as Serious Problem Facing Knowledge Workers, by Brett Thomas.
• Warning: Too Much Info Hazardous To Your Health - by Greg Gillespie, Editor, The Institute.

INFORMATIONAL WEB SITES

• Information overload - Compilation of replies to Internet request for information, June 1997. - complied by Ned Kock.
• Information/Work Overload Annotated Webliography - In Greek mythology, Sisyphus, an evil king was condemned to Hades to forever roll a big rock to the top of a mountain, and then the rock always rolled back down again. Similar version of Hell is suffered every day by people with forever full e-emal boxes.
• Computers 1, Knowledge and Common Sense 0? - by Norman Desmarais
• Technostress: Coping with Technology @WORK @HOME @PLAY - by Dr. Michelle Weil and Dr. Larry Rosen

TIPS / SUGGESTIONS

• Drinking From A Fire Hose? Tips For Managing Web Overload
• Surviving Information Overload - (Link Unavailable)
• Dealing with an Information Glut
• ABCNEWS.com: A Closer Look at Information Overload
• Conquering Information Anxiety: Relief from your data glut starts here - by Janet Fox
• Managing Information: Infoglut - New tools can help tame an ocean of data,by John Foley, Oct. 30, 1995.
• Testing the Surf: Criteria for Evaluating Internet Information Resources - by Alastair G. Smith, The Public-Access Computer Systems Review 8, no. 3, 1997.
• A Practical Approach to "Technostress" - (Link Unavailable) - by Tina Aumiller and Beth Walker, CBRST, Penn State University Libraries

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