| Description |
1 online resource (1 audio file (3hr., 49 min.)) : digital. |
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digital digital recording rda |
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data file rda |
| Series |
MIT Press essential knowledge series.
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| Access |
Digital content provided by hoopla. |
| Cast |
Read by Steven Jay Cohen. |
| Summary |
Using information in its everyday, nonspecialized sense, Michael Buckland explores the influence of information on what we know, the role of communication and recorded information in our daily lives, and the difficulty (or ease) of finding information. He shows that all this involves human perception, social behavior, changing technologies, and issues of trust. Buckland argues that every society is an "information society"; a "non-information society" would be a contradiction in terms. But the shift from oral and gestural communication to documents, and the wider use of documents facilitated by new technologies, have made our society particularly information intensive. Buckland describes the rising flood of data, documents, and records, outlines the dramatic long-term growth of documents, and traces the rise of techniques to cope with them. He examines the physical manifestation of information as documents, the emergence of data sets, and how documents and data are discovered and used. He explores what individuals and societies do with information; offers a basic summary of how collected documents are arranged and described; considers the nature of naming; explains the uses of metadata; and evaluates selection methods, considering relevance, recall, and precision. |
| System Details |
Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
| Subject |
Information science -- Sociological aspects.
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Communication -- Social aspects.
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Documentation -- Social aspects.
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Information society.
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| Added Author |
Cohen, Steven Jay.
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hoopla digital.
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| ISBN |
9781469096810 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
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1469096811 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
| Music No. |
MWT12122443 |
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