TY - BOOK AU - Strother, Judith B. AU - Ulijn, Jan M. AU - Fazal, Zohra TI - Information overload: an international challenge for professional engineers and technical communicators SN - 9781118230138 PY - 2012/// CY - New Jersey PB - John Wiley & Sons, Inc. KW - Information resources management KW - Time management N1 - Includes bibliographical references N2 - Contents: Information overload: an international challenge to professional engineers and technical communicators. -- Of time magazine, 24/7 media, and data deluge: the evolution of information overload theories and concepts. -- The challenge of information balance in the age of affluent communication. -- From cave wall to twitter: engineers and technical communicators as information shaman for digital tribes. -- The influence of culture on information overload. -- Effect of color, visual form, and textual information on information overload. -- Cost of information overload in end- user documentation. -- Taming the terabytes: a human- centered approach to surviving the information deluge. -- Technologies for dealing with information overload: an engineer's point of view.. -- Visualizing instead of overloading: exploring the promise and problems of visual communication to reduce information overload. -- Drowning in data: a review of information overload within organizations and the viability of strategic communication principles. -- Blindfolded through the information hurricane? a review of a manager's strategy to cope with the information paradox ER -