| Description |
1 online resource (359 pages) |
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One hundred years of car buying / William Aspray -- Informed giving : information on philanthropy in everyday life / Barbara M. Hayes -- Airline travel : a history of information-seeking behavior by leisure and business passengers / Rachel D. Little, Cecelia D. Williams, and Jeffrey R. Yost -- Genealogy as a hobby / James W. 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 comics 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 M. Hayes |
| Summary |
An intimate, everyday perspective on information-seeking behavior, reaching into the social context of American history and American homes |
| Analysis |
INFORMATION SCIENCE/General |
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HUMANITIES/History |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Information behavior -- United States -- Case studies
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Information society -- United States -- History -- Case studies
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Human information processing -- History -- Case studies
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Information retrieval -- United States -- History -- Case studies
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LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Library & Information Science -- General.
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TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Social Aspects.
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Human information processing.
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Information behavior.
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Information retrieval.
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Information society.
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United States.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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History.
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Case studies.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Aspray, William
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Hayes, Barbara M., 1955-
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| ISBN |
9780262295734 |
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0262295733 |
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1283119196 |
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9781283119191 |
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9786613119193 |
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6613119199 |
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