Information Overload, Stress, and Burnout: The Need for Contemplative Approaches in LIS

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ajit Piyati
Keyword(s):  
Information Overload ◽  
Information Age

The information age, despite its undeniable opportunities and benefits, is also rife with stress, information overload, and anxiety. Given this context, LIS unfortunately remains  largely silent about these affective concerns. One  way to address these concerns is for LIS to  embrace contemplative approaches as a mode of inquiry. As such, the paper offers a preliminary sketch of a “contemplative LIS” to allow LIS scholars and professionals to more effectively address issues such as overload and burnout. This exploration is based on the following four themes: 1) Attention; 2) Relationships; 3) Reflection; and 4) Action.

LANGUAGE AND SYMBOL IN THE INFORMATION AGE: "TURBULENCE" OF MEANINGS

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexander Soloviev ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Information Society ◽  
Information Overload ◽  
Information Age ◽  
Modern Human ◽  
Continuous Change ◽  
Symbolic Forms ◽  
Total Communication

The article is focused on processes of language and symbol functioning in the information age. The author analyzes linguistic and symbolic aspects of information society culture and concludes that the modern human lives in a situation of semantic “turbulence”: continuous change of linguistic and symbolic forms, information overload and changing modes of total communication.

Controlling the flood: when more of a dose is less

2014 ◽  
Vol 70 (3) ◽  
pp. 330-345 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. David Johnson
Keyword(s):  
Design Methodology ◽  
Information Overload ◽  
Information Age ◽  
Coping Mechanisms ◽  
Correct Interpretation ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Guiding Principle ◽  
Minimalist Approach ◽  
Narrative Literature ◽  
Narrative Literature Review

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore the flood of information that is inundating us. This flood makes it increasingly difficult to make sense of the world and arrive at the correct interpretation of events. Design/methodology/approach – Classic narrative literature review applying the dosage metaphor to the growing problem of information overload. Findings – The seven elements of dosage – amount, frequency, sequencing, delivery systems, contraindications, interactions, and dysfunctions – are used to discuss four major coping mechanisms – escape, attention, delegation, and creative destruction – for dealing with the flood. Each of the coping mechanisms has different entailments for the dosage elements. Originality/value – This essay develops a guiding principle for thinking about how we should cope with this central problem of the information age: suggesting a minimalist approach that offers the hope of clarity in acting in an age that increasingly overwhelms us.

Technostress

2021 ◽  
pp. 239-261
Author(s):  
Kemal Elciyar
Keyword(s):  
Information Management ◽  
Information Literacy ◽  
Information Overload ◽  
Information Age ◽  
Excessive Amount ◽  
Negative Consequences ◽  
Negative Effects

Information is a vital concept today. However, the beginning of the information age can be traced back to the periods when clay tablets were used. Information has impact on individual and corporate success. However, information overload occurs when information, whose positive characteristics are highlighted, reaches an excessive amount. Besides, information overload may cause negative consequences. Technostress and information overload, which have negative effects, need to be managed. Information management is useful to reduce the effects of information overload. It will also be possible to deal with information overload through information literacy, which can be taught to individuals. Useful information can only be obtained when these factors are taken into account.

World Wide Web Personalization

2011 ◽  
pp. 1235-1241 ◽  
Author(s):  
Olfa Nasraoui
Keyword(s):  
World Wide Web ◽  
World Wide ◽  
Information Overload ◽  
Information Age ◽  
Web Content ◽  
Web Personalization ◽  
Web Structure ◽  
Web Information ◽  
The World ◽  
The Web

The Web information age has brought a dramatic increase in the sheer amount of information (Web content), in the access to this information (Web usage), and in the intricate complexities governing the relationships within this information (Web structure). Hence, not surprisingly, information overload when searching and browsing the World Wide Web (WWW) has become the plague du jour. One of the most promising and potent remedies against this plague comes in the form of personalization. Personalization aims to customize the interactions on a Web site, depending on the user’s explicit and/or implicit interests and desires.

scholarly journals Data Stewardship Week in an academic library: An overview

2019 ◽  
Vol 80 (4) ◽  
pp. 206
Author(s):  
Caitlin Harrington ◽  
Kenneth Haggerty ◽  
Rachel Elizabeth Scott
Keyword(s):  
Information Overload ◽  
Academic Library ◽  
Information Age ◽  
Common Occurrence ◽  
Organizational Productivity ◽  
Data Stewardship ◽  
The Right

In the information age, data stewardship is crucial for individual and organizational productivity. It is easy to get overwhelmed by vast amounts of information being created every second. Information overload has become a common occurrence in the workplace to the extent that people “spend more time searching for the right information, leaving them less time for proper analyses using the acquired information.” Thus, the excess of information in the workplace can lead to stress, lack of productivity, and information fatigue.

From Information to Knowledge to Wisdom: the Cold War Battle for Information Superiority and Its Implications for Thriving in the Age of Data Smog

Libri ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 69 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-12
Author(s):  
Stan Trembach
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Information Overload ◽  
Information Age ◽  
Technical Information ◽  
Rapid Expansion ◽  
Industrial Complex ◽  
Root Cause ◽  
Technical Advances ◽  
The Cold War ◽  
Modern Technologies

Abstract This article employs a comparative historical perspective to narrow the gap in the existing knowledge of the origins of the trans-Atlantic information explosion phenomenon that dates back to the early decades of the twentieth century. The author examines the root cause of the unprecedented growth of the overall amount of documents through the lens of the rapid expansion of scientific and technical advances across the world and subsequent spread of modern technologies, particularly those applied to scientific and technical information (STI). The study’s focus is on two superpowers of the era: the thriving Soviet military-industrial complex that went hand in hand with the rise of the STI management system in the mid-twentieth century United States. By exploring the practices of a range of U.S. and Soviet information agencies, this research draws parallels with the current information overload and informs our judgment about the challenges and possibilities in scientific and scholarly research brought about by today’s global information age.

The enterprise portal – is it knowledge management?

2003 ◽  
Vol 55 (4) ◽  
pp. 234-242 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marian Cloete ◽  
Retha Snyman
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Management ◽  
Performance Measurement ◽  
Knowledge Sharing ◽  
Information Overload ◽  
Information Age ◽  
The Other ◽  
Business Strategies ◽  
Cultural Aspects ◽  
The One ◽  
It Knowledge

Currently we are in the middle of the information age, suffering from information overload on the one hand and a lack of knowledge on the other. Enterprise portals (EPs) are seen as the antidote to these problems by becoming more and more the ultimate knowledge management (KM) tool. The current hype about EPs is focused on their application as KM tools. Very little attention is given to other aspects of KM, namely the organisational, human and cultural aspects. The article will provide an overview of the technical and strategic relationship between EPs and KM and illustrate that EPs are only the technology component and should not be mistaken for the essence of KM. What is needed for successful KM in an organisation is not technology alone, but also a knowledge‐sharing culture, knowledge‐sharing policies, organisational processes, performance measurement and business strategies.

Introduction to the Special Issue on Learning Analytics

2012 ◽  
Vol 16 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Karen Swan
Keyword(s):  
Data Mining ◽  
Learning Analytics ◽  
Information Overload ◽  
Information Age ◽  
Knowledge Development ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Knowledge Modeling ◽  
New Techniques ◽  
Vannevar Bush ◽  
New Models

We have passed from an industrial to an information age. One consequence of this move is the information overload envisioned by Vannevar Bush over a half century ago. The growth of data often seems to threaten the ability of organizations to make sense of it. However, the gargantuan amount of available data also has enabled the development of new techniques that have changed the very ways businesses are managed, doctors make diagnoses, and baseball managers recruit and coach players. Advances in knowledge modeling and representation, data mining, and analytics are creating a foundation for new models of knowledge development and analysis. Perhaps nowhere are these new models more needed than in education.

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