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Information and Communication Overload in the Digital Age

Information and Communication Overload in the Digital Age

Rui Pedro Figueiredo Marques (University of Aveiro, Portugal) and Joao Carlos Lopes Batista (University of Aveiro, Portugal)
Copyright: © 2017 |Pages: 380
ISBN13: 9781522520610|ISBN10: 1522520619|EISBN13: 9781522520627
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-2061-0
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Marques, Rui Pedro Figueiredo, and Joao Carlos Lopes Batista. "Information and Communication Overload in the Digital Age." IGI Global, 2017. 1-380. Web. 27 Mar. 2020. doi:10.4018/978-1-5225-2061-0

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Marques, R. P., & Batista, J. C. (2017). Information and Communication Overload in the Digital Age (pp. 1-380). Hershey, PA: IGI Global. doi:10.4018/978-1-5225-2061-0

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Marques, Rui Pedro Figueiredo, and Joao Carlos Lopes Batista. "Information and Communication Overload in the Digital Age." 1-380 (2017), accessed March 27, 2020. doi:10.4018/978-1-5225-2061-0

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Advances in communication technologies have created an overabundance of available information and knowledge to people in contemporary society. Consequently, it has become pivotal to develop new approaches for information processing and understanding.

Information and Communication Overload in the Digital Age is a comprehensive reference source for the latest scholarly material on the increased amount of information created by evolving technologies, examining creative methods for improved control of information overload. Focusing on theoretical and experimental topics, such as media consumption, media literacy, and business applications, this book is ideally designed for researchers, practitioners, academics, graduate students, and professionals seeking emerging perspectives on information and communication management.

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Front Materials
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Title Page
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Copyright Page
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Advances in Information Quality and Management (AIQM) Book Series
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Editorial Advisory Board
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Foreword
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Preface
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Acknowledgment
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Chapter 1
Overview  (pages 26-26)
Overview
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Chapter 1
Joao Carlos Lopes Batista (University of Aveiro, Portugal), Rui Pedro Figueiredo Marques (University of Aveiro, Portugal)
This chapter presents an overview on information and communication overload. The theme is contextualized and the main concepts are discussed based on the published literature. The individual, the organizational and the social...
An Overview on Information and Communication Overload
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Chapter 2
Ana Lúcia Terra (Polytechnic Institute of Porto, Portugal)
In this chapter email overload is presented as a component of information overload and some of its causes and consequences are identified. Furthermore, an analysis on the skills required to deal with information overload is made....
Email Overload: Framing the Concept and Solving the Problem – A Literature Review
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Hernando Gómez Gómez (Universidad Europea de Madrid, Spain), Enrique Corrales Crespo (Universidad Europea de Madrid, Spain)
The modern society establishes a complex relationship that combines the visual overload derived from technology insertion which is adapted to the today´s needs and executed through devices swiftly embraced. In this certain sense, one...
Photographers without Photographs: The Internet as Primary Resource
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Chapter 2
Heterogeneous Factors of Overload
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Chapter 4
S. T. Ahmed (UAE University, UAE)
One of the most crucial areas in which information and technologies need to be managed in our information-rich society is in schools. Whilst information overload is often associated with organisations or social communication, schools...
Managing Information, Communication and Technologies in Schools: Overload as Mismanagement and Miscommunication
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Chapter 5
Bernadette Kneidinger-Müller (University of Bamberg, Germany)
Mobile communication media such as smartphones have dramatically increased the social availability of users. The perpetual contact is experienced quite ambivalently, not only as a big advantage of technological development but also...
Perpetual Mobile Availability as a Reason for Communication Overload: Experiences and Coping Strategies of Smartphone Users
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Chapter 6
Silvia Torsi (University of Trento, Italy)
Time management as an important source of wellbeing is here described along with the opportunities to link this activity to physical space, contacts and mobile personal cloud. The user-centered design of a novel agenda is the theme...
The Fishtank Paradigm of Experience: Merging Time, Space, Activities, Emotions, and People
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Chapter 7
Margarida Lucas (University of Aveiro, Portugal), António A. F. G. Moreira (University of Aveiro, Portugal)
Information and communication overload have gained a new dimension in today's digital world. The exposure to the volume of information being distributed has probably never been so high due to the rapid increase of communication...
Information and Communication Overload: Can DigComp Help?
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Chapter 8
Burcu Berke (Omer Halisdemir University, Turkey), Gülsüm Akarsu (Ondokuz Mayıs University, Turkey), Gökhan Obay (Omer Halisdemir University, Turkey)
Information overload is an important issue in the digital economy. Although, information can be easily accessed and disseminated by widespread use of information and communication technologies (ICT) since 1990s; among countries...
The Impact of Information and Communication Technologies on Economic Growth and Electricity Consumption: Evidence from Selected Balkan and Eastern European Countries
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Solution Proposals  (pages 201-201)
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Chapter 9
Javier Serrano-Puche (University of Navarra, Spain)
In the contemporary media ecosystem, online consumption is framed and characterized by a number of general elements. These key factors are: a) the overabundance of information available to users (information overload); b) the speed...
Developing Healthy Habits in Media Consumption: A Proposal for Dealing with Information Overload
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Chapter 10
Thomas Ellwart (Trier University, Germany), Conny Herbert Antoni (Trier University, Germany)
This chapter discusses information overload (IO) from a team level perspective. Organizational team research underlines the importance of emergent knowledge structures in work groups, so-called team cognition. Two types of team...
Shared and Distributed Team Cognition and Information Overload: Evidence and Approaches for Team Adaptation
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Chapter 11
Sérgio Maravilhas (UNIFACS Salvador University, Brazil), Joberto S. B. Martins (UNIFACS Salvador University, Brazil)
Information is managed avoiding overload in Fab Labs, digital manufacturing environments. Collaborative spaces like Maker Spaces, Hacker Spaces, Tech Shops and Fab Labs are intended to stimulate innovation, through the exchange and...
Information Management in Fab Labs: Avoiding Information and Communication Overload in Digital Manufacturing
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Chapter 12
Rui Miguel Pascoal (Lusófona University, Portugal), Sérgio Luís Guerreiro (Lusófona University, Portugal)
This chapter explores the benefits and challenges of using augmented reality (AR) technology in outdoor sports environments. Questions emerge about the presentation of information more appropriate to give a user without being...
Information Overload in Augmented Reality: The Outdoor Sports Environments
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Chapter 13
Sonja Ganguin (Leipzig University, Germany), Johannes Gemkow (Leipzig University, Germany), Rebekka Haubold (Leipzig University, Germany)
This article deals with the concept of information overload as a crucial element of the changing information environment. Against this background, the authors discuss an alternative process for the conceptualisation of educational...
Information Overload as a Challenge and Changing Point for Educational Media Literacies
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Compilation of References
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About the Contributors
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Index
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