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Group 1
Mr. Matt Moberly
Writing 10
March 10, 2014

Information Overload
Yasmin Martinez
GOLDSBOROUGH, REID. "Be Selective To Manage Internet's Info Overload." Community
College Week 23.23 (2011): 18. Academic Search Complete. Web. 10 Mar. 2014.
Goldsborough, Reid article Be selective to manage Internets Information Overload (2011)
discusses the need to manage information form the internet. Goldsborough supports his assertion
by saying one needs to get the importance out of the information found (making decisions). His
purpose is to show the audience and reader that every decision comes with its own set of
characteristics. Goldsboroughs tone is relaxing because he explains how Roman Philosopher
ideas of information overload was about.
The date that this article was published was June 27, 2011. This means that the information is not
too long ago, which makes it usable. The point that the author also mention are recent things that
us college students go through. An example was Crowdsourcing an article where we rely on
others and not ourselves.
The author is Reid Goldsborough. When I searched him up he was a credible author. He wrote
for the community college weekly. This source is logical because everything that was mention
was useful and truth. One of the evidence was that in order to get something out of it, we need to
stop over thinking about it. That even back then they say that books were countless, and up till
today its logic that we think the same way about books.

Amaya Summers
Holton, Avery E., and Hsiang Iris Chyi. "News And The Overloaded Consumer: Factors
Influencing Information Overload Among News Consumers." Cyberpsychology, Behavior &
Social Networking15.11 (2012): 619-624. Academic Search Complete. Web. 5 Mar. 2014.
News media try to reach consumers by making more videos, commercials, etc. But instead of
finding it appealing, they (consumers) tend to find it annoying. In overload, news access through
Facebook and iPhones are positively associated, while TVs are negatively associated. In sum,
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news surplus forces consumers to tune some content out at the risk of wasting potential benefits,
increase filtering habits and devices, cope with frustrations, develop stronger storage methods,
change their learning techniques, or simply ignore the news all together (Holton 4). The many
different outcomes of overload in the media. They seem all beneficial (especially when applied
to school) but there could also be downfalls to them. Instead of only ignoring the news all
together they could also become immune to it because they changed their learning techniques,
or coped with their frustrations. Realize that this was an online survey, so Internet users were
only accounted for. Not a good source for all of a city, or region, or even age group. We could
narrow it down to the group Internet Users.
Cha Vang
Jacoby, Jacob. "Perspectives on Information Overload." JSTOR. Mar. 1984. JSTOR. 03 Mar.
2014 <http://www.jstor.org/stable/2488912>. (http://www.jstor.org/stable/2488912?seq=3)
The article "Perspectives on Information Overload", by Jacob Jacoby argues that information
overload impacts negatively on society as a critic and as a consequence. The author uses
evidence and support from other works from various other authors and his own factual opinions
on the view of todays growing information. Jacobys articles purpose is to tell people of the
serious consequences and risks of having too much an information and too many of the same
value of each data as it leads to several disastrous results. The intended audience Jacoby
anticipated was towards those who have experienced such results and to those who are beginning
to understand overflowing information as he expresses a worried and serious tone about the
situation with information overload
The article was published extensive ago, but has retained knowledge of the troubles of
information comparable to how it is right now in modern society. The author Jacob is a Professor
of Marketing at the Stern School of Business, New York University, where he holds an endowed
chair as the Merchants Council Professor of Retail Management and Consumer Behavior, so as I
can see he has extensive knowledge on management of information and created numerous other
books related to the mental minds of information. The article voices concerns about extensive
increase to information especially on networks and management as it causes major problems
such as distrustful information and critique understanding of other informational works. In terms
of facts, I have to agree with Jacoby seeing as Jacoby explained main reasons why information
overload is a symptom that is specially designed to feign confusion and irritation on todays
ever-growing systems of information.
If I were to analyze this, Jacoby had a similar mindset towards another work I worked on, who
also details major facts about information overload, Daniel Rosenberg. They have comparable
ideas and opinions on information, yet they have different solutions when describing the ideas of
information overload. They both upheld facts about that information is and will ever expand for
as long people have their function for obtaining new ideas. However, Jacoby had facts about
information overload is a negative impact on todays information data stream. While as
Rosenberg cites it is merely an overestimation of todays people meaning on information
overload and comprehends it a necessary expression for people to be aware of the exaggeration
on information overload. I see it however two ideas of the same coin, while it is true overloading
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information has caused disturbances within information itself by endless copying and unreliable
sources; we seem to deviate ourselves from the amount of work and tend to be dreaded towards
the amount it shows. Essentially, in short, with one view on information overload as a negative.
Yasmin Martinez
Krill, Paul. "Overcoming Information Overload." Infoworld 22.2 (2000): 63. MasterFILE
Premier. Web. 3 Mar. 2014.
Krill, Pauls article Overcoming information overload (2000) claims that, Theres just so
much out there, its difficult to be able to keep up with it all (Krill). Krill supports his claim by
showing how everyday life people go through on overload information. His purpose is to show
readers that web has presented users with huge amounts of information, and some feel they will
miss something if they do not review all available data before making a decision in order to
know when do I have enough ( Krill). Krills tone assumes an audience who cant decide what to
do with so much information overload.
The date of this article was established in January 10, 2000. This source is useful because it
really presence to the two thousands. Which means that we still struggle through this till now.
This also lets us know that we could trust this information. The author and publisher of this
article is Paul Krill. After researching about him, I found out that he is an editor at large
InfoWorld that focuses on coverage of application development. Also with all the information I
learned was useful and understanding.
This source is logical because all of his point were clear and understanding. His evidence clearly
related to the conclusion of his article on information overload. He doesnt forget to identify
connections with the audience. There were good points that he claimed for example in the good
old, bad old days of the mainframe, you went to one place, now youre got to keep track of all
this stuff (Krill).
Cha Vang
Li, Pei, Yuanchen Sun, Yingwen Chen, and Zhi Tian. "ESTIMATING USER INFLUENCE IN
ONLINE SOCIAL NETWORKS SUBJECT TO INFORMATION OVERLOAD."
Pei Lis essay, Estimating User Influence in Online Social Networks subject to Information
Overload claims that information overload in fact decreases the influence of peoples assertion
and sorting through information data. The author gives support through voicing out opinions and
known facts already known. The purpose of this essay is to know what is guaranteed to already
have been known and to see whether people still are aware of information overload. Lis tone
gives out known truths to an audience of those who are not aware of information overload and
future readers of information who wish to know more about it.
The essay was recently published not that long ago within the context of modern data that has
been collected by the data. It was not just one author but many others who contributed and
supported the fact about information overload with Li. Pei Li is a writer from college of
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Information Systems and management who had enough experience managing information and
the indications of information overload. In this essay, Li describes information overload as
something nugatory which distracts our awareness of todays knowledge. I agree with Lis
opinion on information overload; yet I feel as if it has been already known and no need of an
emergent convenience about todays views on information overload. Estimating User Influence
in Online Social Networks subject to Information Overload in fact is an essay which the title
says it all, as we are overestimating our influence within information and flooding it with
countless data.
The essay sounded more of an opinion based work not rearing it towards the rhetoric end of the
part. However, I do see what Li is expressing throughout this essay. It is indeed true that people
are indeed increasing the number of information within the network in todays society. The
numerous data stacks and stacks upon each other piling up and covering up information that we
needed to view. That is what Li is essentially saying within this passage, Among the
observations, we find that the impact of network size on the user influence is marginal while the
user influence decreases with assortativity due to information overload, which is particularly
interesting. What he means is that with the numerous networks needed for information, it has
been completely estimated through only peoples sudden perception of the information in front
of us and we tend to ignore the numerous logical information we initially seek.
Yasmin Martinez
Loertscher, David V. "The Front End Load Of Student Research." Teacher Librarian 36.4
(2009): 42. MasterFILE Premier. Web. 3 Mar. 2014.
Loerscher, David V. article The front end load of student research (2009), claims that college
students face procrastination and anxiety when they encounter information overload. Loerscher
supports his assertion by giving other course-related concerns sources that relate to information
overload. His purpose is to show readers that children and teen need to learn ways to build their
own information space so in order for them not to use the internet (Loerscher). Loerschers tone
is calm, and his audience are teen and college students who are familiar with information
overload.
The date that this article was dated was April 2009, this affects the source usefulness because
this date was five years ago. Which means that even back then students had problem with
information overload. This article might not be that informative up to now, but it tells the truth
about how college students get overwhelmed and procrastinate with research. The Author is
David V. Loertscher a Teacher Librarian who know what college students on research. He has a
PhD Professor.
Loertscher argument is persuasive because his claim is true. Students need to communicate better
together and have help from librarians and other. This convinced me because Im a college
student myself who has struggles with the limits of internet research. We are taught the same
way as other students from other states on how to write a paper. However, when we come to
college, research seems gruel work. So thats why I agree with the author on how students need
to find research on other things besides the internet.
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Amaya Summers
Mahmood, Khalid. "Relationship Of Students' Perceived Information Literacy Skills With
Personal And Academic Variables."Libri: International Journal Of Libraries & Information
Services 63.3 (2013): 232-239. Academic Search Complete. Web. 5 Mar. 2014.
Students are having a hard time with Information Literacy. Faculty, librarians, and administrators
work together to import it into all things that students do. ACRL recommended it as early as
2000.
Focus is on University of Punjab (Pakistan). They implement similar things as the schools here
in California. They offer library orientation programs to newly admitted students in hopes that it
would shape up their IL. Similar workshops are given here at Merced.
My question for right now it: If all these things are offered, then why is our IL still low?
On page 2 (or 233), they begin to walk through studies and experiments.
Findings show that the students were much more comfortable with using the internet and search
engines for finding information, yet were not comfortable using the digital library and online
databases (and all that comes with them). The students were less comfortable in specialized
skills. They did not attend any of the offered programs anytime throughout their academic career.
Or if they did attend the course, it had very little impact.
Yasmin Martinez
Misra, Shalini, and Daniel Stokols. "Psychological And Health Outcomes Of Perceived
Information Overload." Environment & Behavior 44.6 (2012): 737-759. Academic Search
Complete. Web. 3 Mar. 2014
Misra, Shalini article Psychological and Health Outcomes of Perceived Information overloads
argues that it gives a person stress when reaching out toward information overload. Misra
supports the articles assertion by confirmatory factor analyses provided support for the
hypothesized two-factor model of perceived information overload (Misra). The purpose is to
show readers that if not taught how to deal with information overload then the information
overload scales and perceives in overload stress. Misras tone assumes that the audience students
see that narrowing down a question makes the stress go away or even get it started.
The date this article was published was November of 2012. This means that this wasnt so long
ago and the information is very accurate. Everything it states does seem reasonable as well. The
reason why is that we do get stress when we get a lot of information at ounce. The types of
evidence used are Psychological sources. This source could be found in Environment and
Behaviors page. Then after looking at this type of source, then theres sources that connect to
other relative article that deal with information overload on stress, resources, and management.
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In this article I did identify relevant information that the author did not consider and that is graph
or data of the information of stress. I feel that this would have been helpful in visualizing how
information overload affects people in their daily lives. Lastly another thing that is missing is the
point of view from a student that goes through stress when reaching out to information overload.
Cha Vang
Pijpers, Guus. "Information overload: A system for better managing everyday data." (eBook,
2010) [UC Merced Library]. 2010. UC Merced. 03 Mar. 2014
In his book Information Overload: A system for better managing everyday data (2010), Guus
Pijpers debates that information is a conflicting source of data which we are unable to understand
the nature of information. Pijpers supports this argument by going over theories, going through
the history of information gathering, and understanding the basics of the nature of information
itself. The purpose for Pijpers book is to allow us to understand the concept of information both
areas in mentally and physically, and see information as either mental or material (6). Pijpers
voices through an audience of those who have little or more experience with information
overload itself, because of the numerous details of details described about information.
Pijpers book Information Overload: A system for better managing everyday data (2010) was
recently published, however, the book described numerous ideas and philosophy about
information itself as a design not expressing information as a piece of data but as an entry
towards a more wider view on informational philosophy. Guus Pijpers is an author and
management director who has wrote about 250 works of various topics and business subjects
across the world who works to solve solutions in the area of business. The entirety of Pijpers
books states various supportive claims that information is difficult to understand with countless
increasing data which includes the insight of informational history. The author does stay
objective to his argument, for his support is usually adding what he thought of mainly about
information overload as a whole and voices what he thinks while keeping on subject about the
data of information.
The author sounds very detailed in his book by describing histories of information and its input
within modern society. I wouldnt say it is persuasive however, I believe that it is more about
what the author thought about information data in general as a whole. While giving supporting
evidence from statistical data and the concept of information itself. Essentially I believe that it is
about Pijpers views and philosophy on information overload and how it has affected modern
society while connecting past thoughts about information into todays view on information.
Pijpers states that information is a conflicting source of existence that we have inadequate
understanding of about. I cannot agree, but I cant disagree with what Pijpers just said as well.
Considering it is true that we make information as part of our existence, we cannot simply deny
that most conflict about information today can be an undependable and unpredictable. While I
believe in the mental and material views on information I cannot agree that informational
conflict is the source of informational overload.

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Cha Vang
Rosenberg, Daniel. "Early Modern Information Overload." Muse.jhu.edu. N.p., Jan. 2003. Web.
3 Mar. 2014.
In his essay "Early Modern Information Overload" (2003), Daniel Rosenberg claims that
information overload is a negative notion created by people and their intent with information.
Rosenberg supports this with evidence from other authors and works, and going over the concept
of the origins of informational overload. The purpose of this essay is to oversee information
overload as a whole and not as a conventional condition that has been led to believe throughout
many people. Rosenbergs tone implies a supportive tone to readers who needs to be aware of
the problem of todays definition of information overload.
Rosenbergs work "Early Modern Information Overload" (2003) was published almost a decade
ago. So the amount of information within the book may not contain an accurate look on todays
societal statistics, but it comprises of many supporting evidence and theories that argues about
the belief of information overload. Daniel Rosenberg is a journalist and record producer who has
extensive knowledge about writing numerous historical representation and historical philosophy.
Rosenbergs work indicates a large majority of details conferring to the facts about why
information overload is more than it is being said. I agree with Rosenberg and his thoughts about
information overload being viewed as a symptom rather than other something else entirely.
Rosenberg stays objective and truly on topic, nor does he sway from the idea of a misuse of
information overload. His work is mainly his thoughts and views on information overload
however he uses supporting evidence why the many other people view information overload as a
tiring overbearing symptom than a result.
The author sounded very informational and expressive in his writing. It was expressed very
persuasively, yet it was like forcing a thought into another. The idea of information overload as
nothing but a source of human notion in viewing it as a symptom sounds really natural to be
honest. Yet, Rosenberg soundly states in his work that it is just a result of human exaggeration of
overthinking information overload into something much more. It is true that people tend to over
exaggerate things and the details about information overload just cuts that detail into a minimum.
I agree with Rosenbergs idea of information overload as a mental result of human conscious
rather than a tiring symptom made up in the mind as everything about information only leads to
the solution created in the minds of everyone.
Yasmin Martinez
Schantz. "The Limits Of Internet Research." Community College Week 12.8 (1999): 4.
MasterFILE Premier. Web. 3 Mar. 2014
Schantz article The limits of Internet research (1999) discusses that some of the problems
associated with internet make college students get a lot of information overload (Schantz).
Schantz supports his assertion by stating that students use internet as their first source of
information instead of other liable information. Schantz purpose is to show researchers that even
though its easy to locate valuable source materials for a research paper, however, its not easy to
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narrow it down in order to get the information one need to start a research paper. Schantz tone is
informative toward his audience that internet isnt the only place to go for help.
The date this article was published was on November 29, 1999. This means that this document
shows that this data has not changed much too now. Which means that the information is still
reliable on college students overcoming information overload. The author of this article is
Schantz. When I looked up for the name it showed that this guy wrote for community college
week on Black and White Photograph. Then I realized that maybe the author is not well-know,
but the study is published in a well know information for information overload.
In this article there are hidden meaning. For example he/she talks about how students would
rather have a root canal then spend research time in the library, this quote itself has a meaning.
For me it means that students would rather hurry up and get the assignment done then do actual
research in the library. The author also has some assumption that internet is and overlook site,
where first problem are encounter in information overload.

Amaya Summers not completed
So Last Century
Every survey of employers underscores the fact that higher education no longer prepares
students for the changing demands of the contemporary workplace. (Davidson 1)
They wont hire anyone without a degree, yet expect that educated students will not be ready for
the work world? What do they expect? We hassle in school and get internships so that we be
ready for our field. Is that not enough? Its like a circle that we cant get out of.
In the article, she (Davidson) says that recent graduates lack people skills (go figure),
communication skills, Collaborative skills, analytic skills, networking skills, and the ability to
synthesize information over a wide range of evidence. Its funny because it seems like these are
the things that we make fun of over Facebook. For example, there would be a meme that talks
about how socially awkward we are due to the internet, and how we need WiFi everywhere to
survive. This is our generation.
Information Illiterate or Lazy: How College Students Use the Web for Research
Shows studies of how college students use the internet. What they are trying to find out is if
students have the literacy skills to find what need on the massive thing called the internet. They



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