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OverviewAll day, every day, Americans seek information. We research major purchases. We check news and sports. We visit government Web sites for public information and turn to friends for advice about our everyday lives. Although the Internet influences our information-seeking behavior, we gather information from many sources: family and friends, television and radio, books and magazines, experts and community leaders. Patterns of information seeking have evolved throughout American history and are shaped by a number of forces, including war, modern media, the state of the economy, and government regulation. This book examines the evolution of information seeking in nine areas of everyday American life.Chapters offer an information perspective on car buying, from the days of the Model T to the present; philanthropic and charitable activities; airline travel and the complex layers of information available to passengers; genealogy, from the family Bible to Ancestry.com; sports statistics, as well as fantasy sports leagues and their fans' obsession with them; the multimedia universe of gourmet cooking; governmental and publicly available information; reading, sharing, and creating comics; and text messaging among young people as a way to exchange information and manage relationships. Taken together, these case studies provide a fascinating window on the importance of information in the past century of American life. Full Product DetailsAuthor: William Aspray (Professor, University of Colorado Boulder) , Barbara M. Hayes , Jeffrey R. Yost (University of Minnesota) , Rachel D Little (Senior Tarlton Fellow, University of Texas)Publisher: MIT Press Ltd Imprint: MIT Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.606kg ISBN: 9780262015011ISBN 10: 0262015013 Pages: 368 Publication Date: 04 March 2011 Recommended Age: From 18 years Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Out of Stock Indefinitely Availability: In Print  Limited stock is available. It will be ordered for you and shipped pending supplier's limited stock. Table of ContentsReviews<p> This book may well be of interest to undergraduates in a computingand society course, or anyone looking for insight into how people actually use thetools that have been developed over the last hundred years. It is appropriately fullof fascinating nuggets of information, and is attractively produced. --David Parry, Computing Reviews Author InformationWilliam Aspray is Bill and Lewis Suit Professor of Information Technologies in the School of Information at the University of Texas at Austin. He is the coeditor of Women and Information Technology: Research on Underrepresentation (2006) and The Internet and American Business (2008), both published by the MIT Press. Barbara M. Hayes is Associate Dean for Administration and Planning at Indiana University School of Informatics at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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