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Information Overload in a Disciplinary Context

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Information Literacy in the Workplace (ECIL 2017)

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The purpose of this paper is to present the results of a study that explored how students from four different disciplines perceive information overload and cope with this phenomenon. We have formulated three research questions: How do students perceive information overload? How do students cope with information overload? What are the disciplinary differences in coping with information overload? The research involved a mixed methods research strategy, using both quantitative and qualitative methodologies, built into a two-stage research design. The first stage was a small-scale questionnaire survey among students from four disciplines: psychology, mathematics, informatics, and information science. The second stage involved the collection of qualitative data. In-depth interviews with students were conducted from four disciplines (psychology, mathematics, informatics, and information science). In this paper the authors will present the results of this study.

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    Sirje Virkus, Sigrid Mandre & Elise Pals

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Virkus, S., Mandre, S., Pals, E. (2018). Information Overload in a Disciplinary Context. In: Kurbanoğlu, S., Boustany, J., Špiranec, S., Grassian, E., Mizrachi, D., Roy, L. (eds) Information Literacy in the Workplace. ECIL 2017. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 810. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-74334-9_63

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