Scrolling through social media for COVID-19 updates has become a precarious activity for some Canadians, with news of the worsening pandemic becoming harder to escape.
More than a year into the COVID-19 crisis, many are wondering: How much more bad news can we take?
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Bad news overload: COVID-19 pandemic blurs lines between informing public, feeding anxiety | Globalnews.ca
Showing posts with label Overload. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Overload. Show all posts
1/3/22
11/22/20
USA: Is American democracy suffering from an overload of politics? - by Evan Dyer
The polls tell us that roughly a third of all U.S. citizens believe — wrongly — that U.S. president-elect Joe Biden's victory was achieved through fraud.
That finding is more alarming than surprising. Trust in the federal government dipped below 30 per cent among Americans at the beginning of this century and has only declined since then.
Canadians, meanwhile, have much more trust in their governments and public institutions. So what explains the difference?
Read more at:" Is American democracy suffering from an overload of politics? | CBC News
That finding is more alarming than surprising. Trust in the federal government dipped below 30 per cent among Americans at the beginning of this century and has only declined since then.
Canadians, meanwhile, have much more trust in their governments and public institutions. So what explains the difference?
Read more at:" Is American democracy suffering from an overload of politics? | CBC News
6/20/19
Global Tourism: while some cities around the world want more tourist, many don't
Tourist overload: Some world destinations want more visitors - and some really, really don't
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11/26/17
Electronic Communications: One-third of Belgians stressed out by email
One third of Belgians feel stressed out by the sheer volume of email they
receive, according to a study organised by family agency Gezinsbond and
the 55+ organisation Okra. The associations have released the figures to
coincide with the 10th anniversary of No-Email Friday.
One in three Belgians also report feeling helpless at the speed with which they are confronted with new technologies at work, and one in 10 even fears losing their job because of it.
One in five, meanwhile, feel pressured to answer emails in the evenings and weekends when they really don’t want to. And nearly one-quarter of people aged 55 and over are anxious when they are forced to take care of business online.
A full half of those surveyed would support legislation that would allow workers to ignore emails when they are not officially at work.
Read more: One-third of Belgians stressed out by email | Flanders Today
One in three Belgians also report feeling helpless at the speed with which they are confronted with new technologies at work, and one in 10 even fears losing their job because of it.
One in five, meanwhile, feel pressured to answer emails in the evenings and weekends when they really don’t want to. And nearly one-quarter of people aged 55 and over are anxious when they are forced to take care of business online.
A full half of those surveyed would support legislation that would allow workers to ignore emails when they are not officially at work.
Read more: One-third of Belgians stressed out by email | Flanders Today
6/24/12
Photography: Photo-overload: Everyone’s taking pics, but is anyone really looking? - by Erin Anderssen
Last year, one billion mobile phones with cameras were sold around the world; it’s estimated that more than one-third of the earth’s population owns a digital camera. Every two minutes, they snap as many photos as the whole of humanity took in the 1800s, according to calculations by the photo storing site "1000memories". All the pictures ever taken add up to about 3.5 trillion shots, endless digital slideshows of cooing babies and fluffy kittens, to say nothing of the cute top someone saw at "Forever 21" and wanted to get their Facebook friends’ opinions about.
And that math was done way back in September, 2011, which might as well be 1884 in internet years. Facebook’s own most recent stats say that 300 million photos were uploaded per day to the social-media site in the three months ending on March 31, even before June’s prime picture season of proms, dance recitals, graduation ceremonies (kindergarten to university), post-exam parties and weddings. (Also, the tech analyst company, Infotrends, estimates that the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee celebrations would produce an additional 1.3 billion photos.)
That’s not counting the many billions of images hosted by Flickr or tweeted on Twitter, with the unspoken understanding that a picture of three human beings in stock pose (heads together, arms looped, smiles synchronized) will bounce from one digital space to another, until its context fades like an old print in a shoebox. But not for long: Facebook this week announced the purchase of facial-recognition software. Soon no goofy grin shall go unnamed.
So if the good people of 1884 New York thought they had a camera epidemic on their hands, the modern world has shown them – and ourselves, in pixelized glory – a billion times over.
Read more: Photo-overload: Everyone’s taking pics, but is anyone really looking? - The Globe and Mail
And that math was done way back in September, 2011, which might as well be 1884 in internet years. Facebook’s own most recent stats say that 300 million photos were uploaded per day to the social-media site in the three months ending on March 31, even before June’s prime picture season of proms, dance recitals, graduation ceremonies (kindergarten to university), post-exam parties and weddings. (Also, the tech analyst company, Infotrends, estimates that the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee celebrations would produce an additional 1.3 billion photos.)
That’s not counting the many billions of images hosted by Flickr or tweeted on Twitter, with the unspoken understanding that a picture of three human beings in stock pose (heads together, arms looped, smiles synchronized) will bounce from one digital space to another, until its context fades like an old print in a shoebox. But not for long: Facebook this week announced the purchase of facial-recognition software. Soon no goofy grin shall go unnamed.
So if the good people of 1884 New York thought they had a camera epidemic on their hands, the modern world has shown them – and ourselves, in pixelized glory – a billion times over.
Read more: Photo-overload: Everyone’s taking pics, but is anyone really looking? - The Globe and Mail
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