Abundance, Pablo J. Boczkowski
Abundance, Pablo J. Boczkowski
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Abundance
On the Experience of Living in a World of Information Plenty

Author: Pablo J. Boczkowski

Narrator: David Marantz

Unabridged: 8 hr 38 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 10/12/2021

Synopsis

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.

About Pablo J. Boczkowski

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.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Bob on December 19, 2021

Summary: A collection of essays describing both the loss of and recovery of abundance in the natural world, where people have caused harm and brought renewal. Karen Lloyd is a border stalker. In this collection of essays, she describes her journeys throughout the UK and Europe at the border of where......more

Goodreads review by Andy on July 16, 2022

I don't want to read a personal memoir. I was unaware it was. The book promises to be about restoration in the natural world. I am prepared to read a little of the author's life and background, but there is too much. I had hoped to read about nature, and the processes involved in preserving and re-e......more

Goodreads review by Chantal on June 18, 2021

'Abundance' reminds me most of Helen MacDonald's 'Vesper Flights' - both are a series of essays centring on our relations with the natural world, particularly with birds. Lloyd writes beautifully (although my only criticism would be that some sentences are more convoluted than they need to be). Her......more

Goodreads review by SadieReadsAgain on October 09, 2022

I've felt my interest in nature and the impact of us yucky humans on it grow (surely most of us have now, given the very apparent impact of our bad choices), so the hopeful title of this book grabbed my attention. Lloyd recounts her various visits to areas in Europe and across the UK to projects wher......more

Goodreads review by Patty on November 09, 2021

This is a very thought provoking book. It’s not a narrative but rather a collection of essays dealing with the changes that climate change has wrought. Ms. Lloyd writes in a clear and beautiful way about topics that are sad and scary to contemplate. She has experienced the changes that are occurring......more

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