Information Inflation

Abstract

Information has come to be perceived, on the whole, as something ordinary and seems to be slowly losing its value. In this article, this is explored in four areas. It is no longer possible to have an overview with respect to the information at one's disposal. Furthermore, there is a relatively great supply of information, provided by a greater number of contributors than before. Some recent developments in education are also relevant in evaluating the situation. The impact of technical developments, in particular the Internet, on present society, is important from several points of view. This is given attention accordingly.

Information confusion and intention to stop using social networking site: a moderated mediation study of psychological distress and perceived novelty

“…Similarity confusion occurs when users cannot distinguish between information that is similar in nature (Wang and Shukla, 2013). This type of confusion often occurs because people share the same message or similar information on SNS (Doomen, 2009). Similar information from different sources makes users difficult to identify which source is accurate and reliable (Walsh and Mitchell, 2008).…”

“…Schweizer et al (2006) argued that when stimuli exceed an individual capacity threshold for absorbing and processing information, it makes individual difficult to understand and interpret stimuli. In SNS environment, users often experience a state of confusion due to exposure to inflated, similar and complex information (Doomen, 2009). This confusion state makes it difficult for users to select and interpret information.…”

Media Noise: the problem of hygienic rationing and personal well-being

“…Information hygiene is aimed at preventing the negative impact of information on a person and social groups, which is expressed in various forms of distress and disorders of social well-being, such as somatic health disorders: psychoemotional overstrain and its consequences (diseases of the cardiovascular, digestive system (peptic ulcer), immune systems of the body, cancer; mental disorders, anxiety, depressive and panic disorders, new types of phobias, such as nomophobia (fear of being left without a mobile phone), Internetdependent suicides, behavioral disorders, additive behavior, including a pathological attraction to gambling (ludomania), and addiction to social media. There are also other negative consequences of information influences of both individual psychological and general social aspects: "mosaic thinking" -a superficial perception of information, the destruction of spatial-temporal and causal relationships and a qualitative change in the complexity of thinking: from linear to nonlinear [5]; blurring of self-identification, "extended self-identification", when the identity of a modern person acquires the properties of hypertext; dysfunction of the volition -"paralysis of decision-making" [6]; stereotyping of consciousness [7]; the phenomenon of phantom vibration or mobile phone ringing [8] and much more.…”

Toward a new understanding of immigrant information behavior

“…Information overload represents the difficulty of working one's way through vast, complicated, or hard-to-reach resources. Synonyms are both colorful and plentiful: analysis paralysis (Schwartz, 2004); cognitive dissonance (Festinger, 1962); continuous partial attention (Rose, 2011;Stone, 2007); data smog and infobesity (Shenk, 1997); infoglut (Andrejevic, 2013); information anxiety (Wurman, 1989;Wurman et al, 2001); information diet (Johnson, 2012); information inflation (Doomen, 2009); information pollution (Nielsen, 2003); library anxiety (Bostick, 1993;Mellon, 1986;Jiao et al (2006); multidimensional library anxiety (Van Kampen, 2004); overchoice or choice overload (Toffler, 1990); reference overload (Radford, 1996(Radford, , 1999Reichardt, 2006); tyranny of small decisions (Kahn, 1966); and technostress (West, 2007).…”