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Topic 3: INFORMATION OVERLOAD AND ITS CAUSES
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What is Information Overload?
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Being faced with more information than one can effectively process.
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What is Information Overload?
Being faced with more information than one can effectively process.
What are the 2 perspectives on information overload?
1. A failure to filter information.
2. There is too much information.
What are the 3 types of Information Overload?
1) Taskārelated: otherwise known as 'work overload'.
2) Message: resulting from communication (email in particular).
3) Media: media messages across many outlets (sources of information).
What is Message Overload?
An abundance of (email) messages; and with each a new task to be performed, can be:
-informational only (for immediate use or not).
-invoke a specific response or task.
What are some problems that arise from Message Overload?
1) We may fall behind in responding to messages, as well as feel overwhelmed in processing the messages as well as tasks related to properly processing the messages.
2) they are often interrupt activity and divert attention (Otherwise known as interruption). The multitasking of activities contributes to a feeling of overload.