<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><xml><records><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="7.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>17</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Adile  Aşkım  Kurt</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Mehmet   Firat</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">PRESERVICE INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY TEACHERS’ INTERNET USAGE PROBLEMATIC: INTERNET INFORMATION POLLUTION</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Problems of Education in the 21st Century</style></secondary-title></titles><keywords><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">information access</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">information overload</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">information pollution</style></keyword></keywords><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2012</style></year><pub-dates><date><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">April/2012</style></date></pub-dates></dates><urls><web-urls><url><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">http://oaji.net/articles/2014/457-1409839899.pdf</style></url></web-urls></urls><volume><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">41</style></volume><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">eng</style></language><abstract><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">The main purpose of this study is to determine the views of preservice teachers of Information Technologies and investigate the effect of information pollution on internet use. Semi-structured interview and questionnaire methods were used in this mixed methods study. 12 preservice teachers participated in the interview part and 67 4th, 3rd and 2nd course students participated in the questionnaire on voluntary basis, from Computer Education and Instructional Technologies Department. As a result of the analysis of the data obtained, it was found out that the preservice teachers consider information pollution unnecessary, incorrect and out-of-date information found disorganized in an environment; the preservice teachers regard the most important factor causing information pollution on the internet is the fact that everybody can write about anything. Also preservice teachers denoted that the most important effect of internet information pollution is waste of time.</style></abstract><work-type><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Original article</style></work-type><section><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">28-41</style></section></record><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="7.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>17</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Jordi Mongay  Batalla</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Maria Ledzińska</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">ON REDUCING THE DETRIMENTAL INFORMATION FLOOD IN THE USE OF INTERNET</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Problems of Education in the 21st Century</style></secondary-title></titles><keywords><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">information overload</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">information selection</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">use of Internet</style></keyword></keywords><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2011</style></year><pub-dates><date><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">April/2011</style></date></pub-dates></dates><urls><web-urls><url><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">http://journals.indexcopernicus.com/abstract.php?icid=939901</style></url></web-urls></urls><volume><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">28</style></volume><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">eng</style></language><abstract><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Among many positive aspects of the development of the Internet in the last decades, one may also find some damaging ones. This paper centers on the information flood, which any user must face whenever she/he approaches the Internet.
 The amount of information in the network is hastily increasing and it does not seem to have limits. New studies show that the amount of information in the Internet reaches a value near one zettabyte. Zettabyte is a unit of information equal to 10^21 bytes. Any searching in Internet is, ever increasing, an immersion in a sea of information that may bring high discomfort to the users, caused, especially, by the inability to process all the data read.
 This research analyses the issue of information flood and proposes a solution to be implemented as an interface between users and the Internet. The creation of this new tool takes into account the requirements from the psychological standpoint and the implementation issues from the telecommunication point of view. 
 The cooperation between psychology and ICT (Information and Computer Technologies) seems crucial to improve the well-being of people in a as technical a society as the current one.</style></abstract><work-type><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Original article</style></work-type><section><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">84-95</style></section></record></records></xml>