DISCUSSION CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATIONS
From the results obtained it is revealed that majority students are aware about the term information overload however male students are found to be more aware of the phenomena and are of the view that search engines are acting as a source of information, more than the female students .it is further found that female students feel the overload of information more than the male students to a slight degree. Two different psychological indicators were considered in this exploratory research study which were
• Information Fatigue Syndrome (dimensions: stress, depression, confusion)
• Decision paralysis/ analysis paralysis (dimensions: multiplicity/complexity of information, information vacuum, choice paralysis)
Stress and confusion has been found at relatively large scale among male/female belonging to the age group 18-24, similarly complexity/multiplicity of information and choice paralysis is experienced by majority belonging to the age group 18-24. This might be because students are immature enough to deal with the requirements of information surfing. There is a possibility that the respondents suffer because of wrong entry, or failure in understanding the information etc. Finally it can be concluded that Students on large-scale suffer with the majority of the dimensions, of psychological indicators considered in this exploratory research study. This result supports the idea of Dr Dawid Lewis (British psychologist) of International Stress Management Association that bombardment of data to which an individual is exposed effects psychologically. This shows that the psychological effects are warranted .This could lead to some interesting research which considers the idea of physical effec...
... middle of paper ...
...omena information overload.
Recommendations
• More sectors of the students can be selected to increase the scale of the research study
• The instrument could be improved by using qualitative approach which might help the future research to analyze other factors which contribute to the feel of information overload because quantitative approach has limited the study to some extend.
• In demographic analysis further indicators could be introduced to expand this study.
• Physical indicators could also be included to in future research to study the effects of information overload.
• Different socio-economic indicators could be included in the study.
• This research can be further refined for non-academic setting to investigate how people of certain professions experience information overload and what are the factors that contribute to their feeling of overload.
Students may easily lose their attention and concentration with easy access to such incredibly rich store of information. With such new technologies as television, internet and social networks, people nowadays tend to multitask more often as they have easy access to a large amount of information. However, such easy access may sometimes be a distraction. Study “Your Brain on Computers” reports that heavy multitaskers perform up to 20% worse on most tests compared to performance of light multitaskers. Working efficiency of people, who multitask, is claimed to be significantly lower. The same is with concentration. (Crovitz 353) As a result, they are not engaged in working process. Students tend to be easily distr...
Steven Pinker states that “search engines lower our intelligence, encouraging us to skim on the surface of knowledge …” (1). Many students are not reading their assigned books anymore. Sparknotes and other web sites such as Shmoop have provided students with resources which are not useful. Students’ skim through these sites to read books. Most of the websites gives students’ plot summaries which are from another person’s take on that book .This damages the student 's’ chances of actually reading and understanding a book and having their own opinion .The more we run to search engines for answers the less we shall learn . Technology has taken the place of many students’ brains which causes them to think they are dumb. This leads to the need of searching for answers online at all
Find and re-read the review of the previous literature (ROL, the section of the text with numerous citations in the text). Describe specifically how previous literature and the theoretical framework inform the design of the present study. HINT: Look for research questions, assumptions, data collection and analysis methods in qualitative studies; hypotheses, variables, variable measurement, etc. in quantitative
In fact, internet has a considerable impact on the behavior of individuals and their way of thinking. Scientists say juggling e-mail, phone calls and other incoming information can change how people think and behave. They say human ability to focus is being undermined by bursts of information (Richtel, 2010). In fact, internet can cause the information overload in users because they have access to the huge amount of information which human brain seem to be hardly able to p... ... middle of paper ... ...
In certain situation, stress can be triggered in so many ways possible. Today in an average teenagers life stress can be triggered by peers and education. Teenage life is a very stressful environment, having to go through peer pressure and trying to balance studies with social life. With today’s economy stress within an adult’s life can be triggered within the work environment and trying to get through life itself. Stress is a physical reaction to a negative situation, this type of reaction can cause a person to feel threatened or frustrat...
It is said that too much of anything, even if it's good and positive can turn into something bad and information is no exception to this rule. Once news and information became easily accessible to everyone via the world wide web the way we learn and gather information changed as a whole. Instant information anytime, anywhere, and about anything has degraded our ability for that information to stick. This can become too much all at once and you find yourself looking up the same subject several times for the same answer.
Take into consideration the number of interview subjects with regard to the purpose of the research.
of strengths of your study, more research needed to be used in the further study…
Givens, Joshua “The Increasing Human Dependence on Computers" The Increasing Human Dependence on Computers. Associatedcontent. 2008 Web. 16 Feb. 2010
According to Marcia J. Bates information behaviour “is the currently preferred term used to describe the many ways in which human beings interact with information, in particular, the ways in which people seek and utilize information. The broad history of research on information seeking behaviour over the last 50-60 years is reviewed, major landmarks are identified, and current directions in research are discussed” (Bates, 2010, 2381). Two of the most well known theorists of information behaviour are Thomas Wilson and Carol Kuhlthau. Wilson's theories have proved to play an important role in the development of information science and information seeking behaviour. Whereas Kuhlthau’s initial analysis focused heavily on the emotional strains of information seeking. Both these theorists allowed anybody rather than just scientists and scholars to understand the importance of information behaviour. Their diagrams proved to be the most useful in providing an understanding of information seeking and its significance.
Stress is one of the common problems that affect the students’ performance known for every university. Accordingly, stress is a way how students respond to pressure (“Stress and Academic Performance”, n.d.) that they were encountering in their academic life. Tertiary years demands so much pressure and time, the occurrence of stress is inevitable and how student adapt to it affects their performance; to meet such demands our bodies will react accordingly in order to regain balance (“Controlling the stressful college life”, 2011). DeDeyn (2008) stated that stress in educational setting (also known as academic stress) is both mental and emotional pressure inflicted by the different demands of academic life.
As time progresses, more and more advances in technology are coming about. These advances are readily placing information at the hands of the consumer. People are relying on the internet and technological advances for things that used to be only completed manually. As a result many people argue that these advances are adhering to society’s desire to be lazy but, researchers are finding the exact opposite. Our minds are literally changing and the way we think about information is becoming simpler. We are becoming a more developed and analytical society because of the growing use of technology. This growing technological age is creating a generation of people that use their minds in a different and more productive ways than they did before the technological rise.
From my perspective, Nicholas Carr’s argument that the internet appears to be decreasing his capacity for concentration and contemplation does apply to my generation’s internet natives. Generation Z, my generation, has an innumerable amount of internet natives who are perfect examples of Carr’s argument against the internet. My generation, who will be the leaders of the world, are losing their mental capacity because of the frequent use of electronics but especially the World Wide Web. Approximately twenty percent of children from ages eight to sixteen have a computer in their bedroom, and fifty four percent have internet access. Unfortunately, Carr’s argument applies to my generation’s web natives because they are engrossed in the web for twenty-four hours and seven days a week which leads to a plethora of them being sidetracked while doing their activities, unable to focus and reflect on many ideas, and their way of thinking is being modified.
One of the weaknesses of quantitative research is limitation of in-depth analysis (Ranjit Kumar, 2014). The reason behind this idea is limited numbers of question can be provided in the questionnaire. Compared with interview, unless it is structured interview, interviewer can ask whatever they want in response to the situation. However, it is impossible for the questionnaire, as the same paper will be given to all the respondents to keep fairness. Therefore, it tends to be difficult to comprehensive all the potential matters.
...ery time consuming for collecting responses from every faculties and we only able to collect our results in a faculty. Furthermore, the sample group is small whereby there are 50 participants contribute in our study but there are only 47 questionnaires returned because of 3 participants refused to return the questionnaire. Finally, the limitation might influence the reliability and accuracy of our results.