Everyday information : the evolution of information seeking in America
By: edited by William Aspray and Barbara M. Hayes
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 336
ISBN-13: 9780262015011; 9780262515610
Description: This book examines the evolution of information seeking in nine areas of everyday American life. --from publisher description.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: 100 years of car buying / William Aspray; title: Informed giving : information on philanthropy in everyday life / Barbara Hayes; title: Airline travel : a history of information seeking behavior by leisure and business passengers / Rachel Little, Cecelia Williams, and Jeffrey Yost; title: Genealogy as a hobby / James Cortada; title: 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; title: Information in the hobby of gourmet cooking : four contexts / Jenna Hartel; title: The transformation of public information in the United States / Gary Chapman and Angela Newell; title: Active readership : the case of the American comic reader / George Royer,  Beth Nettels, and William Aspray; title: Information exchange and relationship maintenance among American youth : the case of text messaging / Arturo Longoria, Gesse Stark-Smith, and Barbara Hayes.