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Abundance - On the Experience of Living in a World of Information Plenty (Hardcover)
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Abundance - On the Experience of Living in a World of Information Plenty (Hardcover)
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Information overload is something that humans have dealt with for
millennia. During different historical eras, massive increases in
what was available to know has motivated the creation of systems
for sorting, indexing, and compiling information as well as
concerns that the abundance of information might cause cultural
anxiety or even drive people to madness. The digital age has
renewed concerns about information overload and the detrimental
effects it has on our ability to sort through the stream of online
data, decide what is most important, or even to train our attention
on it long enough to make sense of it. In Abundance, Pablo J.
Boczkowski builds upon what we know about the historical and
contemporary scholarship to develop a novel framework on the
experience of living in a society that has more information
available to the public than ever before, focusing on the
interpretations, emotions, and practices of dealing with this
abundance in everyday life. Drawing on extensive fieldwork and
survey research conducted in Argentina, Abundance examines the role
of cultural and structural factors that mediate between the
availability of information and the actual consequences for
individuals, media, politics, and society. Providing the first
book-length account of information abundance in the Global South,
Boczkowski concludes that the experience of information abundance
is tied to an overall unsettling of society, a reconstitution of
how we understand and perform our relationships with others, and a
twin depreciation of facts and appreciation of fictions.
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