Information Worlds: Behavior, Technology, and Social Context in the Age of the Internet

ISBN-13: 9781138801189 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 214 str.

Paul T. Jaeger;Gary Burnett;¬Abar

Opis

Melding concepts drawn from library and information studies scholar and theorist Elfreda Chatman and philosopher Jurgen Habermas, Burnett and Jaeger present a multi-level theory of 'information worlds' to investigate the ways in which information creates the social worlds of people.

Spis treści

Introduction Acknowledgments 1. Theory, Information, and Society  2. Information Worlds 3. Information Value  4. The Evolution of Information Access and Exchange  5. Public Libraries in the Public Sphere  6. Information Worlds and Technological Change  7. News, Media, and Information Worlds  8. Information Worlds and the Political World  9. Applications of the Theory of Information Worlds  10. The Future of Information Theory Bibliograpy Index