Overload and Boredom

Essays on the Quality of Life in the Information Society

Bibliographic Data

ID11097557
AuthorsRobert Boguslaw (corresponding author)
Year1987
Volume16
Issue4
Pages580
Publication date1987-07-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeREVIEW
Review ofOverload and boredom: Essays on the Quality of Life in the Information Society, Orrin Edgar Klapp, 1986
VenueContemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0094-3061 • E-ISSN: 1939-8638
PublisherSAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.2307/2069973
OpenAlexW2133297503
LanguageEN
Citations received1

From the Publisher: This series of essays explores the impact of information on the quality of life in modern society. Addressing the significance of boredom as an indicator of overloads of information, Klapp argues that the information society has become boring in spite of itself. He contends that constant inundation with information has led to nothing less than the attrition of meaning. Redundancy and noise, Klapp asserts, have replaced resonance and variety in the modern world. The information society has become entropic rather than progressive and a deficit in the quality of life has resulted. The author expands upon these problems of the information society; identifying their origins, addressing their implications, and examining the social placebos and temporary remedies currently employed in dealing with them. Finally, he offers his conclusions and suggests ways in which modern man might address the loss in human potential and perhaps find a remedy for culturally symptomatic boredom

Aesthetics · Boredom · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Information overload · Political science · Quality (philosophy · Sociology · Law · Medicine · Mind wandering and attention · Philosophy · Psychology · Social Psychology · Gerontology

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