Filtering and withdrawing: strategies for coping with information overload in everyday contexts

Savolainen, Reijo

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“…The results are supported by previous empirical research (Holton;Chyi, 2012). A possible explanation for this result may be the readers' consumption habits; perhaps people who are interested in news are capable of filtering exactly what they are looking for or want to consume (Savolainen, 2007) through different channels and time schedules and are, therefore, able to decrease the perception of news overload. In comparison, perhaps "sporadic" readers who do not particularly enjoy reading the news feel overloaded with the amount of information and consequently lost in decoding and processing complicated news stories (Thompson, 2009).…”

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News overload in Spain: The role of demographic characteristics, news interest, and consumer paying behavior

Goyanes¹

2014

El Profesional de la Informacion

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This article explores factors that correlate with the perception of news overload and the extent to which Spaniards feel overloaded, or not, with the amount of news available. Specifically, this study explores the following factors: demographics (age, gender, and income), news interest, and consumer paying behavior for online news. The research method employs a quantitative, explorative approach with data collected from an online survey of 1,439 Spanish adults, 18 years and older, in January 2013. Finally, managerial and theoretical implications are discussed. KeywordsNews overload, news interest, consumer paying behavior, online newspapers, online news. Título: Sobrecarga informativa en España: el rol de variables demográficas, el interés en las noticias y el comportamiento de pago del consumidor ResumenLa presente investigación explora factores noveles que presumiblemente afectan a la percepción de sobrecarga informativa, así como analiza su nivel de expansión en España. Particularmente, el estudio analiza el rol de diferentes variables demográ-ficas (sexo, edad e ingresos), el interés por las noticias y el comportamiento de pago del consumidor por su periódico digital favorito. Para ello la investigación aplica una aproximación cuantitativa y exploratoria a través de una encuesta a 1.439 adultos españoles realizada en enero de 2013. Por último, se discuten las implicaciones teóricas y gerenciales. Palabras claveSobrecarga informativa, Interés por las noticias, Comportamiento de pago, Diarios digitales, Noticias online.Goyanes, Manuel (2014). "News overload in Spain: the role of demographic characteristics, news interest, and consumer paying behavior". El profesional de la información, v. 23, n. 6, November-December, pp. 618-624. http://dx.doi.org/10.3145/epi.2014.nov.09

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News overload in Spain: The role of demographic characteristics, news interest, and consumer paying behavior

Goyanes¹

2014

El Profesional de la Informacion

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“…Though we believe that mild stress from MTM-driven temporal misalignment has some productivity benefits for teams, they can quickly reach the limits of their own efficiencyenhancing practices, and shift from being more selective in what they do to simply being less able to do it (Savolainen, 2007). Beyond the small potential productivity gains from temporal misalignment, team coordination processes are fairly fragile (Arrow, McGrath, & Berdahl, 2000) and high temporal misalignment can quickly drive down productivity.…”

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Multiple Team Membership: A Theoretical Model of its Effects on Productivity and Learning for Individuals and Teams.

O’Leary

Mortensen²,

Woolley

2011

Academy of Management Review

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While organizations strive to manage the time and attention of workers effectively, the practice of asking workers to contribute to multiple teams simultaneously can result in the opposite. We present a model of the effects of multiple team membership (MTM) on learning and productivity via the mediating processes of individual context switching, team temporal misalignment, and intra-organizational connectivity. These effects are curvilinear, with learning and productivity peaking at moderate levels of these mediating processes.Electronic copy available at: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1474336 do -Manager (Authors, 2007) Over the last century, the primary approach to organizing has shifted from individual work in hierarchical structures, to more team-based work in hierarchical structures, to teambased work in matrix structures, and ultimately to team-based work in multi-team systems (Hatch & Cunliffe, 2006;Hobday, 2000;Malone, 2004;Marks, Dechurch, Mathieu, Panzer, & Alonso, 2005;Scott & Davis, 2006). As these changes have taken place, an increasing amount of responsibility has shifted to individual employees -responsibility for managing their own learning, allocating their own time, and focusing their own attention. This is especially true when employees are members of multiple teams concurrently, with no one manager aware of each employee's full portfolio of work or team commitments. In such situations, individuals may make decisions (about their time, attention, information, etc.) that are completely rational for them, but that do not result in optimal productivity and learning at the team and organizational levels (Schelling, 1978). Conversely, without complete knowledge of individuals' multiple team commitments, teams, managers, and organizations may make reasonable team-and organizationallevel decisions that have very problematic effects for individuals. In this paper, we address this theoretical and practical tension regarding the allocation of time and attention, as well as the flow of information, when people are simultaneously members of multiple teams.Based on our own survey data and surveys by other scholars (Lu, Wynn, Chudoba., & Watson-Manheim, 2003;Martin & Bal, 2006) (Zika-Viktorsson, Sundstrom, & Engwall, 2006). Some surveys place the percent of knowledge workers who are members of more than one team as high as 94.9 percent (Martin & Bal, 2006) and in at least one company (Intel), 28% are on five or more (Lu et al., 2003). In addition, a wide variety of scholars and practitioners have mentioned the commonality of MTM. For example, Gonzalez and Mark's (2005: 143-4) comment is typical: "In fields as diverse as finance, software development, consulting, and academia, we are finding that it is commonplace that information workers are involved in multiple collaborations that occur in parallel. This demands that individuals enact specific efforts to coordinate, manage and track those collaborations." MTM seems especially common (and particularly challenging) in information technology (e.g., Bas...

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“…Hatással van az oktatás-kutatás és az üzleti élet különböző szféráira, továbbá befolyásolhatja mindennapi információszerzésünket is (Savolainen 2007, Hargittai, Neuman és Curry 2012.…”

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Egy „örökzöld téma”: az információs túlterhelés

Koltay

2018

InfTárs

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A folyóiratban közölt művek a Creative CommonsNevezd meg! -Ne add el! -Így add tovább! 4.0 Nemzetközi Licenc feltételeinek megfelelően használhatók.Koltay Tibor: Egy "örökzöld téma": az információs túlterhelés Az információs túlterhelés jelensége korunk "informá-ciós betegsége", amely számtalan területen és változatos módon okoz nehézséget. A tanulmány egyaránt kitér a túlterhelés kialakulásának okaira és történetére. Nagy súlyt helyez annak tárgyalására, hogy miként enyhíthe-tők szimptómái technológiai jellegű és (főként) társa-dalmi természetű megközelítések adta eszközökkel. Az előbbiek szinte kizárólag az információépítészet megoldásai közül kerülnek ki, míg az utóbbiaknak három főbb útja van. Talán a legelterjedtebb az "új írástudások" propagálása, oktatása és alkalmazása, de élhetünk a szemé-lyes információkezelés eszközeivel, vagy követhetjük az új típusú információs viselkedési normákat is, amelyek elsősorban a Lassú Mozgalom (Slow Movement) elveire és gyakorlatára épülnek. Kulcsszavak: információs túlterhelés, információépíté-szet, új írástudások, személyes információkezelés, lassú elvekInformation overload is one of the "pathologies" in our present information environment that causes difficulties in several fields and in varied ways. Nonetheless, it can be "cured". This paper explains both the causes of Information Overload and its history. It points out that there are various ways of mitigating the symptoms of Information Overload when taking both technical and social approaches. The former of these are limited almost exclusively to the scope and capabilities of information architecture, while social approaches have many directions. The approaches that are perhaps the most prolific are propagating, teaching and applying "new literacies", but we can make use of Personal Information Management skills, and can follow new norms of information behaviour, based mainly on the principles and practice of the Slow Movement.

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Filtering and withdrawing: strategies for coping with information overload in everyday contexts

Cited by 180 publications

References 20 publications

News overload in Spain: The role of demographic characteristics, news interest, and consumer paying behavior

News overload in Spain: The role of demographic characteristics, news interest, and consumer paying behavior

Multiple Team Membership: A Theoretical Model of its Effects on Productivity and Learning for Individuals and Teams.

Egy „örökzöld téma”: az információs túlterhelés

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