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Elizabeth Nolan Brown

People Like Having Too Much Content, Says Swiss Study on Information Abundance

"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.

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