From Culture Industry to Information Society: How Horkheimer and Adorno’s Conception of the Culture Industry Can Help Us Examine Information Overload in the Capitalist Information Society

Author(s):  
Shaked Spier
Author(s):  
Alexander Soloviev ◽  

The article is focused on processes of language and symbol functioning in the information age. The author analyzes linguistic and symbolic aspects of information society culture and concludes that the modern human lives in a situation of semantic “turbulence”: continuous change of linguistic and symbolic forms, information overload and changing modes of total communication.


Communicology ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 136-147
Author(s):  
A. A. Yefanov ◽  
E. N. Yudina

The article proposes a systematization of the main media effects cultivated in the modern neo-information society, draws conclusions about their relationship and interdependence. Information overload, which produces information noise, becomes the cause of media effects. All sources of information noise are currently predominantly embedded in the field of the Internet, which, on the one hand, determines information liberalism, and on the other hand, as a result of the provision of illusory freedom, the overall effect of media manipulation increases. In turn, information noises give rise to such a process as information anomie. Pseudo-news precedents, differentiated into fake and post-truth, based on the motives of media controllers, are considered as manifestations of information noise. Media fraud is a radical form of post-truthization of the information agenda. The classical media effects are the spiral of silence, moral panics, information fatigue, narcotic dysfunction and compassion fatigue, which must be considered from an interdisciplinary perspective – both in the context of social sciences and natural sciences (in particular, medicine), since the influence of media on society and inspired media effects become more and more systemic, targeted, spreading to all spheres of social everyday life, unrecognized by consumers, as a result of which they often turn out to be beyond regulation and control.


Author(s):  
Roberto Penteado ◽  
Eric Boutin

The information overload demands that organizations set up new capabilities concerning the analysis of data and texts to create the necessary information. This chapter presents a bibliometrical approach for mining on structured text and data tuned to the French school of information science. These methodologies and techniques allow organizations to identify the valuable information that will generate better decisions, enabling and capacitating them to accomplish their mission and attain competitive advantages over the competition. The authors think that information treatment and analysis is the most critical organizational competence on our information society and that organizations and universities should take measures to develop this new field of research.


2020 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Katarína Miňová

The present article deals with the development of society in terms of how information is perceived and in terms of how society deals with the problematic of information overload. The aim of the study is to highlight the importance of the link between a democratic society and the information literacy of the individuals making up the society. In the article, the development of the society was realized from the stage of knowledge-oriented society to the information society, which overlaps with the present. At this point, the article, through small case study dealing with information chaos during coronacrisis, highlights current phenomena that demonstrate the link between the inappropriate processing of information and the decline of democracy. We assume that an information literate individual is one of the fundamental building blocks of a democratic system.


Author(s):  
Mutty Hariyati ◽  
Heriyanto Heriyanto

<p>Introduction: The phenomenon of information overload experienced by the Indonesian people has caused many problems ranging from a decrease in the level of public awareness in understanding the validity and accuracy of information sources to changes in public information behavior. One of the problems in the flood of information is the increase of publications both scientific and popular which are the daily consumption of society which is very relevant to the librarian in the current situation and in the future. Methodology: This research was conducted qualitatively by collecting data from literatures that relevant to the research theme. The collected data was then identified to find patterns that match the research objectives, namely to find out the competence of librarians that is relevant for the industrial era 4.0. Discussion: The results show librarians need to have strategies in developing new ways to help people direct and focus their search for finding documents or information that are accurate and valid. Conclusion: It is known that the information overload phenomenon is one of the hallmarks of this industrial 4.0 era so that it requires the development of librarian competencies in maintaining their contribution and existence in the information society.</p>


2020 ◽  
Vol 64 (1) ◽  
pp. 6-16 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarah M. Meeßen ◽  
Meinald T. Thielsch ◽  
Guido Hertel

Abstract. Digitalization, enhanced storage capacities, and the Internet of Things increase the volume of data in modern organizations. To process and make use of these data and to avoid information overload, management information systems (MIS) are introduced that collect, process, and analyze relevant data. However, a precondition for the application of MIS is that users trust them. Extending accounts of trust in automation and trust in technology, we introduce a new model of trust in MIS that addresses the conceptual ambiguities of existing conceptualizations of trust and integrates initial empirical work in this field. In doing so, we differentiate between perceived trustworthiness of an MIS, experienced trust in an MIS, intentions to use an MIS, and actual use of an MIS. Moreover, we consider users’ perceived risks and contextual factors (e. g., autonomy at work) as moderators. The introduced model offers guidelines for future research and initial suggestions to foster trust-based MIS use.


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