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information overload

Problem of workers being deluged under a flood of information that impairs their ability to perform their job. Technological advances, such as e-mail, the Internet, and the mobile phone, have exacerbated the situation. The problem of information overload should not be underestimated because it can cause workplace stress. Likely solutions include delegation to subordinates and learning to recognize the optimum amount of information required to make a decision.
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This is, in part, the scientific explanation of why keyword searching nearly always results in infoglut.
The epistemological foundations of knowledge representations by Svenonius, Elaine / Library Trends
Both the perceived infoglut and the infovoid are increasing exponentially and in lock step with each other, especially over the past decade, due to the advent of networked computer systems, the Internet, and the World Wide Web.
Recordkeeping in the 21st Century by BARON, JASON R. / Information Management Journal
Instead of being the authorities who dispense information in lectures prescribed by a discipline-based curriculum - the sage on the stage - they will help students to process the infoglut spewed forth by a global culture which threatens to engulf us- the guide on the side.
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