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...
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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.
...second using the search engine, people lose their motivation to read and the attention to think about the answer. (Crovitz 353) In Plato’s Phaedrus, Greek philosopher Socrates claims that people who get information without proper instruction as ignorant since they only conceit of the answer instead of the wisdom to find out and understand the answer. (Carr 341) With such access to information, we do spread information and expand human knowledge in a rapid rate. However, we lose our creativity, intelligence and the spirit of inquiry.
... Mokhtari also thinks students' internet use abilities vary greatly. Some use the internet differently, and so many don’t seem to use the internet to its full potential. In the end, this could tie into how the internet affects how college students read or study. Works Cited Page Mokhtari, Kouider, Carla A. Reichard, and Anne Gardner.
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
Givens, Joshua “The Increasing Human Dependence on Computers" The Increasing Human Dependence on Computers. Associatedcontent. 2008 Web. 16 Feb. 2010
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of strengths of your study, more research needed to be used in the further study…
...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.