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A Case for Conscious Consumption

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An edition of The Information Diet (2011)

The Information Diet

A Case for Conscious Consumption

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"The modern human animal spends upwards of 11 hours out of every 24 in a state of constant consumption. Not eating, but gorging on information ceaselessly spewed from the screens and speakers we hold dear. Just as we have grown morbidly obese on sugar, fat, and flour--so, too, have we become gluttons for texts, instant messages, emails, RSS feeds, downloads, videos, status updates, and tweets.We're all battling a storm of distractions, buffeted with notifications and tempted by tasty tidbits of information. And just as too much junk food can lead to obesity, too much junk information can lead to cluelessness"--

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Management Personal information management Information resources management Information technology Informationsgesellschaft Informationsaufnahme Internet Verbraucherverhalten Informationskompetenz Konsumgesellschaft COMPUTERS Information society Information superhighway Information science
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Table of Contents

Preface. VII
PART I. INTRODUCTION
Page 1
Chapter 1. Lessons from Obesity
Page 9
Chapter 2. Information, Power, and Survival
Page 19
Chapter 3. Big Info
Page 29
Chapter 4. We Are What We Seek
Page 43
Chapter 5. Welcome to Information Obesity
Page 53
Chapter 6. The Symptoms of Information Obesity
Page 63
PART II. THE INFORMATION DIET
Page 75
Chapter 7. Data Literacy
Page 79
Chapter 8. Attention Fitness
Page 87
Chapter 9. A Healthy Sense of Humor
Page 97
Chapter 10. How to Consume
Page 101
PART III. SOCIAL OBESITY
Page 119
Chapter 11. The Participation Gap
Page 125
A Special Note. Dear Programmer
Page 141
Appendix A. Further Reading
Page 146

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Sebastopol, CA

Classifications

Library of Congress
HD30.2 .J59 2012, HD30.2 .J59 2012eb, ZA3075

Contributors

Author
Clay A. Johnson

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Format
Hardcover
Pagination
ix, 150p
Number of pages
150

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL25228802M
ISBN 10
1449304680
ISBN 13
9781449304683
LCCN
2011410787
OCLC/WorldCat
754720170, 780164768

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OL16538242W

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