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Autore |
Stebbins Leslie F. <1958-> |
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Titolo |
Finding reliable information online : adventures of an information sleuth / / Leslie F. Stebbins |
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Lanham : , : Rowman & Littlefield, , [2015] |
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©2015 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (205 pages) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Internet searching |
Electronic information resource searching |
Computer network resources - Evaluation |
Information behavior |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Drinking, an information story : finding reliable health information -- Five stars! Four girls and free brunch : finding reliable restaurant reviews -- The wisdom of a crowd of experts : finding reliable scholarly research -- Word of mouse : finding reliable travel information -- The dog effect : finding reliable science information. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Finding Reliable Information Online: Adventures of an Information Sleuth uses stories or "information adventures" to illustrate the best approaches to searching for information and to help us develop our aptitude for locating high quality resources in a rapidly changing digital environment that is becoming proficient at monopolizing our attention with useless or unreliable information. This book is about taking charge of the search process and not handing over the reins to search engines like Google, Bing, or Yahoo to dictate what information we consume. |
Our information-saturated environment causes us to spend too much time searching, surfing and organizing the information in our lives. But finding reliable high quality information can be a problem. We are often so buried in information-- and strapped for time-- that we grab the search results without bothering to evaluate its quality. Stebbins shows |
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