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INFORMATION OVERLOAD AND SEARCH TECHNIQUES Teacher: Luísa Lima Subject: English 2014 1

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INFORMATION OVERLOAD AND SEARCH TECHNIQUES

Teacher: Luísa Lima

Subject: English

2014

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WHAT IS INFORMATION OVERLOAD?

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Information overload refers to the difficulty a person can have to understand an issue and to make decisions that can be caused by the presence of too much information.

“Information overload occurs when the amount of input to the system exceeds its processing capacity.”- “The Managing of Organizations”, of Bertram Gross (1964).

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ORIGIN OF INFORMATION OVERLOAD

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A rapidly increase of new information being produced also know as journalism.

The ease of duplication and transmission of data across the Internet.

Causes of information

overload

Causes of information

overload

An increase in the available channels of incoming information (RSS, instant messaging, e-mail).

A lack of method for comparing and processing different kinds of information.

Consumers become producers.

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IS INFORMATION OVERLOAD KILLING YOUR PRODUCTIVITY?

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* Linsday Broder published on FOXBusiness: “According to a LexisNexis International Workplace Productivity Survey , “a majority of workers in every market (62%, on average) admit that the quality of their work suffers at times because they can’t sort through the information they need fast enough.” ”

* She also say: “prioritize your information into three categories: must know, should know and nice to know.”

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EFFECTIVE ONLINE SEARCH TECHNIQUES Phrase searching

Truncation

Wildcard

Field searching

Setting Limits

Boolean 7

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SEARCH TECHNIQUES Phrase Searching

Instead of American English

Try “American English” or (American English)

Truncation Instead of

machine

Try machin? for machine, machinery, machinist 8

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SEARCH TECHNIQUES

Instead of industry

Try

stem industr*

industry

industries

industrial

industrialization 9

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SEARCH TECHNIQUES

Wildcard Searches If you want both

Woman Women

Try Wom*n

If you want to search for language literacy acquisition language vocabulary acquisition language lexical acquisition language phonologically acquisition etc. simultaneously;

Search as Language*acquisition

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SEARCH TECHNIQUES

Field Searching title, author, subject, keyword, all fields, etc.

Setting Limits language, date, region, file format

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Boolean searching

“phonetics” OR “phonology”

“phonetics” AND “phonology”

“phonetics” NOT “phonology” 12

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13Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQCBT0lfH-o

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WEBGRAPHY

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• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_overload• http://www.foxbusiness.com/personal-finance/2013/09/25/is-information-overload-killing-your-productivity/ • http://truthpouredout.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/0511-1009-1319-0462_Black_and_White_Cartoon_of_a_Stressed_Out_Guy_with_the_Word_Overload_clipart_image_1.jpg• http://allantyoung.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/04/informationoverloadcartoon.jpg• http://www.toonpool.com/user/250/files/spam_19825.jpg• http://www.internetsegura.pt/files/thumb/103/300• http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_jwn-6NxywDU/TG3Ya_alpMI/AAAAAAAABag/MUgP5P9hZS4/s400/motores-de-busca.jpg• http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-sFs0m_qF6q8/T89W20uvPlI/AAAAAAAAADA/HSy0srnd6Zg/s1600/MOTORES.gif• http://rtiweb.net/images/solucoes/motores%20de%20busca.jpg• http://www-beta.statcounter.com/images/screenshots/search-engines.png