English

Noun

infobesity ‎(uncountable)

1. information overload
   • 2009, Kay Withers, First class?: challenges and opportunities for the UK's university sector (page 96)

     As Lilley (2008) has suggested, we are living in an age of 'infobesity'.

   • 2010, Kevin Duncan, Marketing Greatest Hits: A Masterclass in Modern Marketing Ideas (page 84)

     On the data and information front, he believes we are suffering from infobesity. Too much information causes stress and confusion and makes us do irrational things.

   • 2010, Alain Fayolle, Handbook of Research in Entrepreneurship Education: Volume 3 (page 98)

     This module introduces students to the principles of dematerialization, to the need for perpetual mutation, adaptation and to co-evolution phenomena; to the phenomenon of infobesity, and so on.

   • 2011, Moira Cockell, Jérôme Billotte, Frédéric Darbellay, Common Knowledge: The Challenge of Transdisciplinarity (page 36)

     Confronted with infobesity, their [Internet users'] attention is rare and volatile.