Description: Abundance : On the Experience of Living in a World of Information Plenty, Hardcover by Boczkowski, Pablo J., ISBN 0197565743, ISBN-13 9780197565742, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US Information overload is something that humans have dealt with for millennia. During different historical eras, massive increases in what was available to know has motivated the creation of systems for sorting, indexing, and compiling information as well as concerns that the abundance of
information might cause cultural anxiety or even drive people to madness. The age has renewed concerns about information overload and the detrimental effects it has on our ability to sort through the stream of online data, decide what is most important, or even to train our attention on it
long enough to make sense of it.
In Abundance, Pablo J. Boczkowski builds upon what we know about the historical and contemporary scholarship to develop a novel framework on the experience of living in a society that has more information available to the public than ever before, focusing on the interpretations, emotions, and
practices of dealing with this abundance in everyday life. Drawing on extensive fieldwork and survey research conducted in Argentina, Abundance examines the role of cultural and structural factors that mediate between the availability of information and the actual consequences for individuals,
media, politics, and society. Providing the first book-length account of information abundance in the Global South, Boczkowski concludes that the experience of information abundance is tied to an overall unsettling of society, a reconstitution of how we understand and perform our relationships with
others, and a twin depreciation of facts and appreciation of fictions.
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Book Title: Abundance : On the Experience of Living in a World of Information
Number of Pages: 240 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Abundance : on the Experience of Living in a World of Information Plenty
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication Year: 2021
Subject: Social History, International Relations / Diplomacy
Item Height: 0.7 in
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 17.1 Oz
Item Length: 6.3 in
Subject Area: Political Science, History
Author: Pablo J. Boczkowski
Item Width: 9.6 in
Format: Hardcover
