How to Overcome Information Overload: Complete Guide 101
A detailed guide to to causes, manifestations and solutions to Information Overload.
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A collection of quotations, graphics, and links exploring the effects of information overload and other “pathologies of information”.
Dealing with a deluge of email
After spending the last few days managing a massive volume of email, I decided to look online for some practical tips that can be practiced to be more efficient and effective in preventing email overload.
The attached article recently published in the AICPA online news provides several practical tips such as:
• Adopt an email folder system to organize your emails
• Use filters to automatically file or better yet delete unwanted emails
• Don’t use emails for conversation, try good old telephone or in person conversations
• Don’t allow emails to interrupt workflow or other planned activities
• Avoid “reply to all” when really not required
• Don’t skim and skip to come back later, handle once
• Think before you send, is the email important? would you want to receive it?
Read the full article and helpful insights when dealing with a deluge of email
A Theoretical Conversation about Responses to Information Overload
In this study, information overload is viewed through the lenses of Library & Information
Science and Communication Theory in order to oer recommended solutions for individuals
experiencing overload. The purpose of this research was to apply LIS and COMM theories to the
pathologies and symptoms of information overload as experienced by individuals in an increasingly
digital world. Extant survey work was reviewed and updated with literature collected through
limited keyword searches.
Avoiding Information Overload to Cope with Stress and Anxiety During a Pandemic
COVID-19—the disease caused by the novel coronavirus—and the information overload it has caused, has increased worldwide levels of stress and anxiety. This article reviews the problem and what people can do about it.
The effects of information overload on online conversation dynamics
The inhibiting effects of information overload on the behavior of online social media users, can affect the population-level characteristics of information dissemination through online conversations. The article introduces a mechanistic, agent-based model of information overload and investigates the effects of information overload threshold and rate of information loss on observed online phenomena.
Managing Information Overload in the Digital Workplace
The article takes a holistic approach to managing information overload and proposes multiple ways to reduce it, becoming healthier and more productive at work
Overload: How Good Jobs Went Bad and What We Can Do about It
The book investigates work redesign strategies to address burnout, overload, and turnover and is based on a major field experiment in a Fortune 500 firm.
Information Overload and Infodemic in the COVID-19 Pandemic
Information overload during the current COVID-19 pandemic has caused an “infodemic” in which false news,
conspiracy theories, magical cures and racist news are being shared at an alarming rate, with the potential to
increase anxiety and stress and even lead to loss of life. This review highlights some of these challenges and
suggests general measures to avoid information overload and infodemic in the connected world of 21st century.
Is Information Overload Hurting Mental Health?
Authors argue that endless access to information during COVID-19 might be making matters worse.