Today I will compare two different people’s outlook on what Information Overload is and what we are doing about it as a society. Using a blog from the Harvard Business Review and a blog from ARMA Information Overload, I will compare how each says that we as a society take in the information and horde it to ourselves, constantly trying to stockpile it.
In the blog from the Harvard Business Review, they show how this is not something new to humans to do, being that it’s been going on since print was first introduced. They use Logos by explaining details in how society has been collecting books and written text throughout the ages and has only grown as time has gone by. They show how libraries are some of the biggest of these collectors, not to mention private libraries at people’s houses. How we have volumes of different books and magazines just stacked up on a shelf collecting dust in the hope of one day maybe reading it again.
The blog from the ARMA also uses Logos to support their claims but also describes it to persuade the audience with mental images, so bring out Pathos in its argument. It describes how in today world of online data is sharing, how people will just keep saving information on their computers and back up disk just in case they need it again. They explain how file storages have become unmanageable and how everything has to be saved and stored, not just the important things but all things.
These concepts of using Logos mainly to explain how Information Overload happens and has happened throughout our history helps us to understand it better. But in each blog they use Logos in different ways to portray different ideas about the same idea.
I like that they pointed out how we've been gathering information since we began printing things. I think the difference is not only the quantity of what is saved today but also the quality, like how you pointed out that all things are being saved.
ReplyDeleteYou bring a good argument, I'm kind of a pack rat when it comes to saving things (emails, projects, anything really). I think what we need to do is learn to sort out what should be saved and what we can manage to do without. This way we can still progress as a society but slow down the concept of information overload.
ReplyDeleteI think it's interesting that the use of logos can bring out the use of pathos in the second blog. They use so much logic, that your emotions begin to get mixed in; a good technique I would say.
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