Infoglut : how too much information is changing the way we think and know / Mark Andrejevic.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Andrejevic, Mark, 1964- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Information society.

Internet--Social aspects.

Internet.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (213 p.)

Edition:

1st edition

Other Title:

How too much information is changing the way we think and know

Place of Publication:

New York : Routledge, 2013.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

text file

Summary:

<P>Today, more mediated information is available to more people than at any other time in human history. New and revitalized sense-making strategies multiply in response to the challenges of ""cutting through the clutter"" of competing narratives and taming the avalanche of information. Data miners, ""sentiment analysts,"" and decision markets offer to help bodies of data ""speak for themselves""-making sense of their own patterns so we don't have to. Neuromarketers and body language experts promise to peer behind people's words to see what their brains are really thinking and feeling. New for

Contents:

Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; 1 Introduction: Infoglut and Clutter-Cutting; 2 Intelligence Glut: Policing, Security, and Predictive Analytics; 3 Emotional Glut: Opinion Mining and Sentiment Analysis; 4 Future Glut: Marketocracy; 5 Glut Instinct: Body Language and Visceral Literacy; 6 Neuro-Glut: Marketing to the Brain; 7 Theory Glut: From Critique to Conspiracy; 8 Cutting Through the Glut: Knowledge Small Enough to Know; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from title page (ebrary, viewed July 17, 2013).

ISBN:

9781135119515

1135119511

9780415659086

0415659086

9780203075319

0203075315

9781135119522

113511952X

OCLC:

852758092