Digital literacy
Bounded rationality and satisficing in young people's Web-based decision making
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Data Smog: Surviving the Information Glut
Data Smog: Surviving the Information Glut
A nonlinear model of information-seeking behavior
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
The Turn: Integration of Information Seeking and Retrieval in Context (The Information Retrieval Series)
Digital Literacies for Learning
Digital Literacies for Learning
Theories of Information Behavior (Asist Monograph)
Theories of Information Behavior (Asist Monograph)
The Printing Revolution in Early Modern Europe
The Printing Revolution in Early Modern Europe
Filtering and withdrawing: strategies for coping with information overload in everyday contexts
Journal of Information Science
Journal of Information Science
How to Use Web 2.0 in Your Library
How to Use Web 2.0 in Your Library
Annual Review of Information Science and Technology
Correspondence: Vox populi: Civility in the blogosphere
International Journal of Information Management: The Journal for Information Professionals
Which photo groups should I choose? A comparative study of recommendation algorithms in Flickr
Journal of Information Science
Selecting quality sources: Bridging the gap between the perception and use of information sources
Journal of Information Science
Practical considerations when filtering documents
Proceedings of the 4th Information Interaction in Context Symposium
A decision framework for the consolidation of performance measurement systems
Decision Support Systems
A metadata-based approach to leveraging the information supply of business intelligence systems
ER'12 Proceedings of the 31st international conference on Conceptual Modeling
'So wide and varied': The origins and character of British information science
Journal of Information Science
Journal of Biomedical Informatics
Slow Delphi: An investigation into information behaviour and the Slow Movement
Journal of Information Science
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This review article identifies and discusses some of main issues and potential problems - paradoxes and pathologies - around the communication of recorded information, and points to some possible solutions. The article considers the changing contexts of information communication, with some caveats about the identification of `pathologies of information', and analyses the changes over time in the way in which issues of the quantity and quality of information available have been regarded. Two main classes of problems and issues are discussed. The first comprises issues relating to the quantity and diversity of information available: information overload, information anxiety, etc. The second comprises issues relating to the changing information environment with the advent of Web 2.0: loss of identity and authority, emphasis on micro-chunking and shallow novelty, and the impermanence of information. A final section proposes some means of solution of problems and of improvements to the situation.