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Record Nr.

UNINA9910789568903321

Titolo

Everyday information : the evolution of information seeking in America / / edited by William Aspray and Barbara M. Hayes

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, Mass., : MIT Press, ©2011

ISBN

1-283-11919-6

9786613119193

0-262-29573-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (366 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

AsprayWilliam

HayesBarbara M. <1955->

Disciplina

025.5/24

Soggetti

Information behavior - United States

Information society - United States - History

Human information processing - History

Information retrieval - United States - History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

100 years of car buying / William Aspray -- Informed giving : information on philanthropy in everyday life / Barbara Hayes -- Airline travel : a history of information seeking behavior by leisure and business passengers / Rachel Little, Cecelia Williams, and Jeffrey Yost -- Genealogy as a hobby / James Cortada -- Sports fans and their information gathering habits : how media technologies have brought fans closer to their teams over time / Jameson Otto, Sara Metz, and Nathan Ensmenger -- Information in the hobby of gourmet cooking : four contexts / Jenna Hartel -- The transformation of public information in the United States / Gary Chapman and Angela Newell -- Active readership : the case of the American comic reader / George Royer,  Beth Nettels, and William Aspray -- Information exchange and relationship maintenance among American youth : the case of text messaging / Arturo Longoria, Gesse Stark-Smith, and Barbara Hayes.

Sommario/riassunto

An intimate, everyday perspective on information-seeking behavior, reaching into the social context of American history and American homes.