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Information overload. Information overload (also known as infobesity, [1][2] infoxication, [3] or information anxiety[4]) is the difficulty in understanding an issue and effectively making decisions when one has too much information (TMI) about that issue, [5] and is generally associated with the excessive quantity of daily information.
Informatization or informatisation refers to the extent by which a geographical area, an economy or a society is becoming information-based, i.e. the increase in size of its information labor force. Usage of the term was inspired by Marc Porat ’s categories of ages of human civilization: the Agricultural Age, the Industrial Age and the ...
The Matthew effect may largely be explained by preferential attachment, whereby wealth or credit is distributed among individuals according to how much they already have. This has the net effect of making it increasingly difficult for low ranked individuals to increase their totals because they have fewer resources to risk over time, and ...
Information richness is defined by Daft and Lengel as "the ability of information to change understanding within a time interval". [1] Media richness theory states that all communication media vary in their ability to enable users to communicate and to change understanding. [5] The degree of this ability is known as a medium's "richness."
The concept of attention economics was first theorized by psychologist and economist Herbert A. Simon [14] when he wrote about the scarcity of attention in an information-rich world in 1971: [I]n an information-rich world, the wealth of information means a dearth of something else: a scarcity of whatever it is that information consumes. What ...
According to the definition provided by Karen Mossberger, one of the authors of Digital Citizenship: The Internet, Society, and Participation, [1] digital citizens are "those who use the internet regularly and effectively." In this sense, a digital citizen is a person using information technology (IT) in order to engage in society, politics ...
A plutocracy (from Ancient Greek πλοῦτος (ploûtos) 'wealth' and κράτος (krátos) 'power') or plutarchy is a society that is ruled or controlled by people of great wealth or income. The first known use of the term in English dates from 1631. [1] Unlike most political systems, plutocracy is not rooted in any established political ...
Information is an abstract concept that refers to something which has the power to inform. At the most fundamental level, it pertains to the interpretation (perhaps formally) of that which may be sensed, or their abstractions. Any natural process that is not completely random and any observable pattern in any medium can be said to convey some ...