Information overload, retrieval strategies and Internet user empowerment

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http://eprints.org/relation/isVersionOf https://eprints.rclis.org/id/document/2173 http://eprints.org/relation/isVolatileVersionOf https://eprints.rclis.org/id/document/2173 http://eprints.org/relation/isIndexCodesVersionOf https://eprints.rclis.org/id/document/2173 archive 192 disk0/00/00/54/32 2004-09-17 2014-10-02 11:59:26 2012-12-14 18:12:14 confpaper show Carlson Christopher N. Information overload, retrieval strategies and Internet user empowerment pub B. information overload, information retrieval, Internet use, information literacy Initial user benefits from search engine technology have been critically degraded over time by the rapid increase of Internet pages. Traditional retrieval strategies therefore yield increasingly poor results due to a dramatic increase in ballast in the results. Search engine users thus increasingly experience information overload. Technical approaches to dealing with this problem have caused an initial euphoria, yet have proven ineffective in solving the problem. Enhancement of user empowerment in the area of Internet-based information retrieval must therefore be grounded in the augmentation of user capabilities. Alternative retrieval strategy approaches including a demonstration of their best areas of application are offered. Issues of information literacy and information anxiety are explored with regard to their relevancy to improving the retrieval skills of non-professional users. Users must redefine their information needs and processing habits. Pre-filtering of perceived information requirements to reduce the amounts of information actively sought and acquired, while upgrading its quality, i.e. improving the precision/recall ratio, is a learnable trait. In terms of securing the future utility of inexpensive, universal-access online information exchange forums such as the Web, it is important that non-professional users learn to navigate successfully in an excessively information-rich environment. 2003 Media Lab UIAH 3 - 5 September 2003 The Good, the Bad and the Irrelevant (COST 269) Helsinki (Finland) en FALSE DE- http://hdl.handle.net/10760/5432 public 1 1 169-173 TRUE Haddon Leslie info:eu-repo/semantics/other