Information 2.0 : new models of information production, distribution and consumption / / Martin De Saulles [[electronic resource]]

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910829141603321
• Autore: De Saulles Martin
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: London : , : Facet, , 2015
• ISBN: 1-78330-078-7
• Edizione: [Second edition.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (x, 163 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
• Disciplina: 025.04
• Soggetti: Information services; Information society; Information technology; Information storage and retrieval systems; Social media; Information retrieval - Technological innovations
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Jul 2018).
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: New models of information production -- New models of information storage -- New models of information distribution -- New models of information consumption.
• Sommario/riassunto: This textbook provides an overview of the digital information landscape and explains the implications of the technological changes for the information industry, from publishers and broadcasters to the information professionals who manage information in all its forms. This fully-updated second edition includes examples of organizations and individuals who are seizing on the opportunities thrown up by this once-in-a-generation technological shift providing a cutting-edge guide to where we are going both as information consumers and in terms of broader societal changes. One of the key themes of the book is the way that organizations, public and commercial, are blurring their traditional lines of responsibility. Amazon is moving from simply selling books to offering the hardware and software for reading them. Apple still makes computer hardware but also manages one of the world's leading marketplaces for music and software applications. Google maintains its position as the most popular internet search engine but ; has also digitized millions of copies of books from leading academic libraries and backed the development of the world's most popular computing platform, Android. At the heart of these changes are the emergence of cheap computing devices for decoding and presenting digital information and a network which allows the bits and bytes to flow freely, for the moment at least, from producer to consumer.