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Data smog : surviving the information glut
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"We are awash in information: faxes, e-mail, news, infotainment, and advertising overwhelm us even as CEOs and politicians herald the dawn of a glorious and profitable Information Age. Media schola...
"We are awash in information: faxes, e-mail, news, infotainment, and advertising overwhelm us even as CEOs and politicians herald the dawn of a glorious and profitable Information Age. Media scholar and cyber-pundit David Shank deftly dismantles all the hype and exposes the unsettling impact of information overload, or data smog, on our individual well-being (emotional and physical) and on our society at large. This myth-shattering manifesto also outlines a welter of practical strategies for minimizing data smog's polluting effects - from curtailing junkmail and telephone sales pitches to instituting all-out "data fasts.""--BOOK JACKET.
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- Creator
- David Shenk
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- Language
- English
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- First edition
- San Francisco, Calif. : Harper Edge, 1997
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- 250 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 0060187018, 9780060187019
- OCLC
- ocm36147201
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-242) and index.
- The laws of data smog -- Spammed! -- The black shakes -- Skeptical in Seattle -- "A new generation of geniuses" -- The Thunderbird problem -- Paralysis by analysis -- Stat wars -- The two-by-four effect -- Village of Babel -- A nation of lonely molecules -- Superdemocracy -- Creatures from the Info Lagoon -- Dataveillance -- Anecdotage -- The end of journalism? -- March of the cyber-Republicans -- What then must be done? -- Be your own filter -- Be your own editor -- Simplify -- De-nichify -- Don't forsake government; help improve it -- Appendix: How to get off junk mail/phone lists