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The concern about information overload predicted by Postman is that in the information society that exists in the 21st century, humans are left without agency against a barrage of relentless information. Postman’s arguments, positioned alongside the technological dystopian literature of Orwell, Huxley, and Forster, provide lessons applicable to educational technology practice.
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Tillberg-Webb, H., Strobel, J. (2013). Ideologies in the Conceptualization and use of Educational Technology. In: Clough, M.P., Olson, J.K., Niederhauser, D.S. (eds) The Nature of Technology. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6209-269-3_17
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