Information and behavior.
By: edited by Brent D. Ruben.
Contributors: Ruben, Brent D.
Publisher: Transaction Books
Published: 1985
Place of publication: New Brunswick, NJ
Language: eng
Number of pages: 521
Subjects: Information services; Mass media -- Social aspects; Human behavior; Communication -- Psychological aspects
Notes: Includes references and index.
Table of contents: title: The coming of the information age: information, technology, and the study of behavior / Brent D. Ruben; title: Information and communication: information is the answer, but what is the question? / James D. Halloran; title: Conflicts of theory and issues of new information media policy / Denis McQuail; title: The function of human communication / Frank E. X. Dance; title: Whose life is it anyway?  Information as property / Richard F. Hixson; title: Computers and communication / Everett M. Rogers and Scheizaf Rafaeli; title: The person-computer interaction: a unique source / Robert Cathcart and Gary Gumpert; title: Mass communication theory and the new media: major assumptions in the light of technological change / Harvey C. Jassem and Roger Jon Desmond; title: The political economy of database technology / Irving Louis Horowitz - Behavioral impacts in the information age / Frederick Williams, Ronald E. Rice, and Herbert S. Dordick; title: The impact of new technology on the acquisition, processing, and distribution of news / Jerome Aumente; title: Computer-mediated interpersonal communication / James W. Chesebro; title: Information-processing conceptualizations of human cognition: past, present, and future / Elizabeth F. Loftus and Jonathan W. Schooler; title: Information exposure, attention, and reception / Lawrence R. Wheeles and John A. Cook; title: Indexing systems: extensions of the mind's organizing power / James D. Anderson; title: Communication, information, and adaptation / Young Yun Kim; title: Information and political behavior / Dan Nimmo; title: Metaphors, information, and power / Stanley Deetz and Dennis Mumby; title: Provatizing the public sector: the information connection / Herbert I. Shiller; title: Videotext and American politics: the more things change / David Blomquist; title: Information technology and social problems: four international models / Jerry L. Salvaggio; title: Corporate transborder data flow and national policy in developing countries / Carrie L. Shipley, Dwayne L. Shipley, and Rolf T. Wigand.