Infobésité
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Quand l’homme sert de machine à la machine « InternetActu.net
Par Rémi Sussan le 17/11/10 | 2 commentaires | 2,159 lectures | Impression Tout le monde est d’accord pour dire que “l’infobésité” sera probablement l’un des gros problèmes du siècle qui commence. Et ce qui est déjà difficile pour tout un chacun devient une question vitale pour certaines catégories professionnelles, comme les militaires, les agents de renseignements et autres pratiquants d’activités à risque.bibliographies (pour aller + loin)
Managing information overload - Press & Journal
“Information overload” is a term that was first coined in the early-1970s. Others have described this phenomenon as “infobesity”, or “information pollution”. This all refers to the sheer amount of information being produced and shared. For many people, this has become an increasing problem. This enormous mass of information (often conflicting) requires organising and managing in order to make some sense of it, and to enable others to make best use of it.
UK: Managing Information Overload and the Info Pro « ResourceShe
Others have described this phenomenon as “infobesity”, or “information pollution”.Why We Don't Care About Information Overload - Tom Davenport - H
I gave a presentation this week on decision-making, and someone in the audience asked me if I thought information overload was an impediment to effective decision-making. "Information overload...yes, I remember that concept. But no one cares about it anymore," I replied.
How Do We Curb “Infobesity”? - PSFK
Timothy Young, founder of Socialcast has written a thoughtful essay in which he compares information consumption habits to food consumption habits. Young laments the all-to-popular modern media diet of non-stop minutia and buzz-worthy memes, and wonders how to curb “infobesity”. One way towards a more healthy media diet, he theorizes, is to develop some kind of rating system akin to the nutrition facts labels found on food. He explains:
Can you imagine a world where we only received the information that is relevant to us? A world without time-consuming screening, where we only got the news - and all of the news - that we really care about? Why don’t we have this world today?
Managing Information Overload
How to Reduce Information Overload | Think Simple Now » How to R
We live in a world full of information being thrown at us, every moment of the day, constantly demanding our attention. In our everyday lives, we are being constantly hit with streams of incoming information. I recall days where I just felt so ‘full’ from information that my mind feels numb, and I’m sure you can relate. Information overload occurs when we try to receive more information than can be processed.They say the soul weighs 21 grams , and now we have a measurement of the American mind on any given day: 34 gigabytes. According to a University of California, San Diego, study highlighted by The New York Times , the average American consumes 34 GB worth of content a day, including a whopping 100,000 words of information. The report clarifies that we don’t necessarily parse a full 100,000 words per day, but that that rather astounding figure does cross our eyes and ears each 24-hour interval via multiple channels: the Web, TV, text messaging, radio, video games and more.
Information Overload: Americans Consume 34 GB of Data Daily
Unplugged: Information Overload Requires a Human Solution
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Lately, discussions of reading and literacy tend to devolve into polarized positions and alarmist rhetoric. On one side, fogey-nostalgist-book-loving types argue that the web is bad for reading, dumbing us down, destroying our attention spans, distracting us from classic texts. On the other, hip young techies excitedly point to the good things about digital reading, positing text-message novels and participatory media as new forms of storytelling with lower barriers to entry. This tired debate, which pits print against screen in the ultimate battle over how we read, is perhaps best summed up by the catchy headlines on last year’s New York Times talker “Online, R U Really Reading?”
Information Overload
Confess your symptoms of info. overload
Is using a BlackBerry getting in the way of your life? Photograph: Corbis Paul Hemp has written an essay outlining his concern over the unsettling side effects of our 24-hour, 21st century lives, and specifically the amount of information, emails and facts we are bombarded with. He writes:Dealing with Information Overload
Two of my favorite medical bloggers—Bertalan Meskó from ScienceRoll and Dr.L'infobésité
Juste quelques mots pour vous dire qu'il existe très peu d'études sur le phénomène qu'on appelle en anglais «information overload», celles qui existent datent surtout de 1997. Mais voici tout de même quelques chiffres : Selon l'Université de la Californie à Berkeley , la planète produit l'équivalent de un à deux milliards de gigaoctets en information par année (journaux, revues, films, livres, télévisions etc.). Chiffres publiés le 18 octobre 2000.Information, surinformation, mésinformation
Quand la surabondance crée la redondance La surabondance crée la redondance. Plus nous avons de moyens d’information à notre disposition, plus nous avons tendance à ressasser les mêmes nouvelles. Il y a donc une rançon à payer pour la facilité (apparente) de documentation et le « tout disponible, tout de suite de partout » que représente le Net. Tandis que le journal tend à devenir le journal unique, traitant les mêmes sujets dans le même ordre et dans la même optique, À la télévision, le contraste est frappant entre le nombre d’images théoriquement disponibles (chaque événement est couvert par un grand nombre de télévisions, et celles-ci sont de plus en plus accessibles sur le câble) et le fait que nous voyons partout les mêmes images répétitives à peu près montées de la même façon.We’re a gathering of industry practitioners, academic researchers, consultants and other professionals who are dedicated to addressing the problem of information overload, an ongoing crisis that diminishes productivity and quality of life among knowledge workers worldwide. IORG welcomes all those who seek – and who seek to share – research, data, ideas and solutions to help reduce the impact of this widespread and growing problem. Read More The Information Overload Research Group’s Overloaded 2012 un-conference, a lively one-day gathering of information overload crusaders from a diversity of domains, was a complete success. Two dozen attendees spanning academic, industry, consulting, analyst and public sector backgrounds came together, exchanged research results, viewpoints and opinions, and formed friendships and plans for future cooperation. We heard [...]