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Ingrid Bejerman, Abundance: On the Experience of Living in a World of Information Plenty Pablo J. Boczkowski, Journal of Communication, Volume 72, Issue 3, June 2022, Pages E50–E52, https://doi.org/10.1093/joc/jqab045
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In setting out to explore “the experience of living in a world of information plenty” and to go beyond prevalent discourses of information overload in the digital age, Pablo J. Boczkowski, one of the most prominent writers and thinkers working in the field of media and technology today, delivers both a touching, often intimate reflection as “a single dad with an Argentine perspective and a twentieth century sensibility, trying to parent two teenage girls in the American heartland who epitomize a twenty-first century outlook on life,” and a serious, rigorous, highly original, paramount piece of scholarship endorsed by the likes of Michael Schudson (“a landmark study”) and Fred Turner (“a fascinating and important piece of work”), one taking 5 years to complete and tackling connections between mobile communication, social media, the consumption of news and entertainment, and technology, including but not limited to an ambitious, large-scale ethnographic study (conducting 158 semi-structured interviews supplemented by a survey of 700 people) and a deconstruction of the storied history of information overload in behavioral and social sciences.
