Information concepts
Subtitle: from books to cyberspace identities
By: Gary Marchionini
Series: Synthesis lectures on information concepts, retrieval, and services -- #16; Synthesis lectures on information concepts, retrieval, and services -- #16.
Publisher: Morgan & Claypool Publishers
Published: 2010
Place of publication: [San Rafael, Calif.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 91
ISBN-13: 9781598299625; 9781598299632
Subjects: Information behavior; Information; Human-computer interaction; Informationsteori
Description: Information is essential to all human activity, and information in electronic form both amplifies and augments human information interactions. Surveys some of the different classical meanings of information, focuses on the ways that electronic technologies are affecting how we think about these senses of information, and introduces an emerging sense of information that has implications for how we work, play, and interact with others. The four senses selected for inclusion here are the following: thought and memory, communication process, artifact, and energy. Emphasizes how electronic representations have blurred media boundaries and added computational behaviors that yield new forms of information interaction, which, in turn, are stored, aggregated, and mined to create profiles that represent our cyber identities.
Notes: Also available online.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 81-89).

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Table of contents: title: The many meanings of information; title: Information as thought and memory; title: Information as communication process; title: Information as artifact; title: Information as energy; title: Information in identity in cyberspace : the fifth voice; title: Conclusion and directions.