| Description |
1 online resource (ix, 202 pages) |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction : infoglut and clutter-cutting -- Intelligence glut : policing, security, and predictive analytics -- Emotional glut : opinion mining and sentiment analysis -- Future glut : marketocracy -- Glut instinct : body language and visceral literacy -- Neuro-glut: marketing to the brain -- Theory glut : from critique to conspiracy -- Cutting through the glut : knowledge small enough to know. |
| Summary |
Today, more mediated information is available to more people than at any other time in human history. New and revitalized sense-making strategies multiply in response to the challenges of "cutting through the clutter" of competing narratives and taming the avalanche of information. Data miners, "sentiment analysts," and decision markets offer to help bodies of data "speak for themselves"--Making sense of their own patterns so we don't have to. Neuromarketers and body language experts promise to peer behind people's words to see what their brains are really thinking and feeling. New for. |
| Subject |
Information society.
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Internet -- Social aspects.
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Société de l'information. |
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Internet -- Aspect social. |
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Information society |
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Internet -- Social aspects |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Andrejevic, Mark, 1964- Infoglut. New York : Routledge, 2013 9780415659079 (DLC) 2012045510 (OCoLC)823472873 |
| ISBN |
9781135119522 (electronic bk.) |
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113511952X (electronic bk.) |
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9780203075319 (ebk.) |
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0203075315 |
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9780203075319 |
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1299715648 (ebk.) |
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9781299715646 (ebk.) |
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