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Information overload is something that humans have dealt with for millennia. During different historical eras, massive increases in what was available to know has motivated the creation of systems for sorting, indexing, and compiling information as well as concerns that the abundance of information might cause cultural anxiety or even drive people to madness. The digital age has renewed concerns about information overload and the detrimental effects it has on our ability to sort through the stream of online data, decide what is most important, or even to train our attention on it long enough to make sense of it. In Abundance, Pablo J. Boczkowski builds upon what we know about the historical and contemporary scholarship to develop a novel framework on the experience of living in a society that has more information available to the public than ever before, focusing on the interpretations, emotions, and practices of dealing with this abundance in everyday life. Drawing on extensive fieldwork and survey research conducted in Argentina, Abundance examines the role of cultural and structural factors that mediate between the availability of information and the actual consequences for individuals, media, politics, and society.

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Pablo J. Boczkowski is Hamad Bin Khalifa Al-Thani Professor in the Department of Communication Studies at Northwestern University. He is founder and director of the Center for Latinx Digital Media, and faculty director of the Master of Science in Leadership for Creative Enterprises program, both at Northwestern. He is also cofounder and codirector of the Center for the Study of Media and Society in Argentina, a joint initiative between Northwestern and Universidad de San Andreas, in Buenos Aires. He is the author or coauthor of four books, four edited volumes, and over fifty journal articles. David Marantz is a voice talent and Earphones Award-winning narrator.

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