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

• Pubblicazione: Cambridge, Mass., : MIT Press, ©2011
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (366 p.)
• Disciplina: 025.5/24
• Soggetto topico: Information behavior - United States; Information society - United States - History; Human information processing - History; Information retrieval - United States - History
• Altri autori: AsprayWilliam HayesBarbara M. <1955->
• 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.
• ISBN: 1-283-11919-6; 9786613119193; 0-262-29573-3
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9911140352903321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II