Infobesity

[H]ow information professionals can embrace new social networking technologies, and the move from information to knowledge and meaning, as well as the idea of ‘infobesity’.

We live in an age of infobesity. Information overload. Too much choice. You can't stop it – as even the Chinese are finding – by building virtual walls any more.

As [Anthony] Lilley (2008) has suggested, we are living in an age of ‘infobesity’.

On the data and information front, he believes we are suffering from infobesity. Too much information causes stress and confusion and makes us do irrational things.

This module introduces students to the principles of dematerialization, to the need for perpetual mutation, adaptation and to co-evolution phenomena; to the phenomenon of infobesity, and so on.

Internet users have access to huge amounts of information. Confronted with infobesity, their attention is rare and volatile.

As digital platforms continue to grow, it also gives rise to infobesity and the problem of plenty which can undermine the platforms' performance.