The Google Generation : Are ICT innovations Changing information Seeking Behaviour?

ISBN-13: 9781843345572 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 220 str.

David Nicholas; Barrie Gunter

Opis

The Google Generation examines original and secondary research evidence from international sources to determine whether there is a younger generation of learners who are adopting different styles of information search behaviour from older generations as a function of their patterns of use of online technologies. The book addresses the questions: might the widespread availability and use of search engines, such as Google, give rise to a different type of scholar who seeks out and utilises online information sources and thereby develops a different orientation to learning from older generations whose information seeking practices became established initially in the offline world.

• Provides a one of the most comprehensive analyses yet on the evolving nature of information search behaviour
• Combines a review of a wide range of international research evidence combined with original, cutting edge research
• Directed towards industry end-users and policy makers as well as academics with shared scholarly interests

Recenzje

...it deserves a place at the centre of one of the key contemporary debates of librarianship and pedagogy, Journal of Librarianship and Information Science

Spis treści

Introduction; The rise of the information society; The internet era; Google generation: what is the evidence? Emergence of new forms of knowledge production, search and acquisition; The emergence of digital scholarship; What next?