263. Communication Overload

We've poured tons of resources into computers & the internet, but haven't seen much in the way of returns. Maybe it's because they foster bad communication habits. # Links for the Curious A comparative analysis of communication patterns within effective and ineffective decision‐making groups (Hirokawa, R. Y., 1980) - http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/03637758009376040 A Modest Proposal: Eliminate Email (Newport, C., 2016) - https://web.archive.org/web/20221003005303/https://hbr.org/2016/02/a-modest-proposal-eliminate-email Additive Growth (Philippon, T.) - https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w29950/w29950.pdf Analyzing Revision (Faigley, L. & Witte, S., 1981) - https://publicationsncte.org/content/journals/10.58680/ccc198115887 Careless Speech: Conceptualizing Post-Truth Politics1 (Hyvönen, A.-E., 2018) - https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/2336825X1802600303 Caring for Clarity in Knowledge Communication (Bischof, N. & Eppler, M. J., 2011) Communication Overload in Hospitals: Exploring Organizational Safety Communication, Worker Job Attitudes, and Communication Efficacy (Barrett, A. K., Ford, J. & Zhu, Y., 2023) - https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10410236.2022.2129313 CRISIS COMMUNICATION EFFECTIVENESS IN DISASTER MANAGEMENT: CASE STUDIES AND LESSONS (Akbar, S., Ekasari, S. & Asy’ari, F., 2025) Disciplining the Gramophone, Radio, Telephone, and Television (Arnheim, R., 2009) - https://muse.jhu.edu/article/265610 Effects of planning strategies on writing dynamics and final texts (Limpo, T. & Alves, R. A., 2018) - https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0001691818300672 Effects of Quality and Quantity of Information on Decision Effectiveness (Keller, K. L. & Staelin, R., 1987) - https://academic.oup.com/jcr/article-lookup/doi/10.1086/209106 Emergency communication: the discursive challenges facing emergency clinicians and patients in hospital emergency departments (Slade, D. et al., 2008) - https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1750481308091910 Fire Management Today (Vilsack, T. et al., 2010) FIREFIGHTER SAFETY AND RADIO COMMUNICATION (Varone, C., 2012) Group Communication and Problem-Solving Effectiveness: An Investigation of Group Phases (Hirokawa, R. Y., 1983) - https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2958.1983.tb00700.x How to Organize a Meeting (And Stay Sane), Pt. 1 It Could Happen Here (Killjoy, M., 2025) - https://www.iheart.com/podcast/105-it-could-happen-here-30717896/episode/how-to-organize-a-meeting-and-stay-sane-pt-1-283234694 Information quantity and communication effectiveness: Low‐impact messages on wilderness trailside bulletin boards (Cole, D. N., Hammond, T. P. & McCool, S. F., 1997) - http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/01490409709512239 LESS IS MORE: ONE LAW CLERK’S CASE AGAINST LENGTHY JUDICIAL OPINIONS (Burton, L., 2021) Private e-mail requests and the diffusion of responsibility (Barron, G. & Yechiam, E., 2002) - https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0747563202000079 Reconceptualizing Communication Overload and Building a Theoretical Foundation: Communication Overload (Stephens, K. K. et al., 2017) - https://academic.oup.com/ct/article/27/3/269-289/4651866 Should I send this message? Understanding the impact of interruptions, social hierarchy and perceived task complexity on user performance and perceived workload (Gupta, A., Li, H. & Sharda, R., 2013) - https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0167923613000055 Simple rules for concise scientific writing (Hotaling, S., 2020) - https://aslopubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/lol2.10165 The Braindead Megaphone (Saunders, G., 2007) The problem of information overload in business organisations: a review of the literature (Edmunds, A. & Morris, A., 2000) - https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0268401299000511 The Productivity Paradox of the New Digital Economy (van Ark, B., 2016) The Role of a Training Intervention in Reducing Email Overload and Improving Productivity. (Campbell, K. M. & Milner, P. K., 2017) Troubles with information overload—Moving from quantity to quality in information provision (Simpson, C. W. & Prusak, L., 1995) - https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/0268401295000459 USFA-TR-099 - Improving Firefighter Communications (Department of Homeland Security, 1999) - Virtues and Vices of Omission (Hirst, R., 2007) - Wayback Machine , 2018) - https://web.archive.org/web/20180219123759/http://www.k1chr.org/ACP%20125%20(G)%20Radio%20Telephone%20Procedures%20NOV%202016.pdf When Less Is More: Meaningful Learning From Visual and Verbal Summaries of Science Textbook Lessons (Mayer, R. E., Bove, W., Bryman, A., Mars, R. & Tapangco, L., 1996) Words matter: radio misunderstandings in wildland firefighting (Gabor, E., 2015) - https://connectsci.au/wf/article/24/4/580/112342/Words-matter-radio-misunderstandings-in-wildland