"What if people appreciate having an abundance of content and communication, more than they feel overloaded by it?" Rasmus Klein Nielsen, a communication professor at the University of Copenhagen, recently asked on X.

That may feel like an occasion to dust off that old Marcia Brady "sure, Jan" meme. But Nielsen links to new research suggesting the counterintuitive position here may be right.

"We found that appreciation for abundance was about twice as common as overload," write Anne Schulz and a team of European researchers in a new paper published in the Journal of Quantitative Description: Digital Media.

Information abundance "is characterized by a vast, readily accessible supply of information available through various sources (e.g., apps, channels) and devices (e.g., smartphones, ra

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