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Symposium Invitation: Information Overload Paradox

  • 1.  Symposium Invitation: Information Overload Paradox

    Posted 07-24-2017 23:34
    ***Apologies for cross posting***

    Session Type: Symposium
    Program Session: 2090 | Submission: 13284 | Sponsor(s): (MOC)
    Scheduled: Tuesday, Aug 8 2017 3:00PM - 4:30PM at Hyatt Regency Atlanta in Techwood
     
    Information Overload: Challenges and Opportunities for Valuation in the Information Economy

    Presenter: L.V. Orman Cornell University
    Presenter: Rajib Hasan University of Houston- Clear Lake
    Presenter: Ningzi Li Cornell University
    Presenter: Lynette Shaw University of Michigan- Ann Arbor
    Discussant: Abdullah Shahid Cornell University


    Our symposium extends the arguments on information overload with particular foci on organizations and institutional design. Our panel first provides theoretical arguments of information overload, particularly emphasizing 'substitution', 'obsolescence', and 'competition' aspects (LV Orman & Abdullah Shahid). Then, panelists provide novel empirical contexts to investigate how valuations are constructed as the result of organizational behaviors and decisions. We investigate firm strategies to deliver corporate information on social media (Rajib Hasan), firm networks with government and financial institutions in emerging markets (Ningzi Li), and the responses of dominant actors in existing power structures (Lynette Shaw). The empirical contexts spread over corporate Facebook pages, Chinese corporate bond markets, and wide adoption of digital currency, i.e., bitcoin. The results of these work suggest a strong role of institutions in understanding social dynamics as the consequence of information overload. 

    Your participation will greatly enhance the quality of the debate and we look forward to your presence.


    Thanks and regards,
    Abdullah Shahid and Ningzi Li
    Cornell University

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    Ningzi Li （李凝紫）, PhD.
    Department of Sociology, Cornell University
    Uris Hall 353, Ithaca, NY 14853
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