Introduction
Organizations have a wealth of information at their disposal due to globalization and the internet. The amount of digital data available on the Web every day reaches records of mind-boggling proportions and presumably accumulating at an ever-increasing rate, estimated at 30-percent growth per year from 1999 to 2002. (Blair) This data, developed into information the organization may utilize must be filtered and verified for validity. People are an organizations best asset. Organizations are likely to find better solutions to information overload through changes to their social systems.
Availability of Information
As Blair stated above, the amount of information available has become staggering and will increase substantially over the years. More important, information overload was experienced long before the appearance of today's digital gadgets. Complaints about "too many books" echo across the centuries, from when books were papyrus rolls, parchment manuscripts, or hand printed. The complaint was also common in other cultural traditions, like the Chinese, built on textual accumulation around a canon of classics. (Blair) Therefore, historically the problem or precedent was started long ago; the internet has only hastened the issue and increased the amount of information available to an organization.
It is this information overload that poses additional stress and clarification onto organizations. Organizations now need to filter and substantiate the information, or data, due to the unsure validity of such. With this unfortunate availability of information overload due to technology and the internet, organizations must develop information into usefulness. Information is data that has been given meaning b...
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Chapter one is an examination of different definitions of ‘information’ to support the concept of ‘informa...
In his article titled “Upon Opening the Black Box and Finding It Empty: Social Constructivism and the Philosophy of Technology”, Langdon Winner (1993) presented a critique of social constructivism; noting that while there are definitely positive facets of social constructivism, there are also significant complications with the methodology. The aspects of social constructivism that he finds valuable include its conceptual rigor, its concern for specifics and its attempts to provide empirical models of technological change that better reveal the actual course of events (Winner, 1993). Despite this, Winner is adamant about the narrow confines of the social constructivist perspective. In his article, Winner (1993, p. 368) explores four specific limitations of social constructivism:
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With globalization and technological advancements, the modern world has come to be known as the age of information. The internet, the media and other sources of mass and
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