Sunday, September 2, 2007

Information Overload

In our chapter 2 reading, an approach to organizational communication is through communication as an infomation transfer. According to Eisenberg, Goodall and Tretheway, with information transfer "if a message is out there, it shoudl be understood" (29). There are, of course, ways in which this can be disrupted and a message is in fact skewed. The way that stuck with me the most and seems to affect me the most is information overload, where "the reciever becomes overwhelmed by the information taht must be processed" (29). I found this clip on you tube that described this perfectly.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=aQl9uKTFxrE

1 comment:

veeberd said...

Neat item. You might explore how to incorporate the video directly into the blog so that a reader sees an image where you've currently placed the hyperlink.