Accessing and browsing information and communication / Ronald E. Rice, Maureen McCreadie, and Shan-Ju L. Chang.
2001
ZA3075 .R53 2001eb
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Title
Accessing and browsing information and communication / Ronald E. Rice, Maureen McCreadie, and Shan-Ju L. Chang.
Author
Rice, Ronald E.
ISBN
9780262256865 (electronic bk.)
026225686X (electronic bk.)
0585437327 (electronic bk.)
9780585437323 (electronic bk.)
9780262182140
0262182149 (Trade Cloth)
026225686X (electronic bk.)
0585437327 (electronic bk.)
9780585437323 (electronic bk.)
9780262182140
0262182149 (Trade Cloth)
Imprint
Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, 2001.
Copyright
©2001
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (xiii, 357 pages) : illustrations
Call Number
ZA3075 .R53 2001eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
025.5/24
Summary
This book contends that accessing and browsing information and communication are multidimensional and consequential aspects of the information user's entire experience and of general human behavior. Problems in information creation, processing, transmittal, and use often arise from an incomplete conceptualization of the "information seeking" process, where information seeking is viewed as the intentional finding of specific information. The process has traditionally been considered to begin with some kind of search query and end with some kind of obtained information. That, however, may be only the last, most easily observable--and perhaps not even primary--stage of a complex sequence of activities. This book reviews related theory, research, practice, and implications from a wide range of disciplines. It also analyzes converging forms of information, including mass media, online information services, the Internet and World Wide Web, libraries, public spaces, advertisements, and organizational communication. Extensive case studies illustrate the theoretical material.
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McCreadie, Maureen.
Chang, Shan-Ju L.
Chang, Shan-Ju L.
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