Information and behavior.
By: edited by Brent D. Ruben.
Contributors: Ruben, Brent D.
Publisher: Transaction Books
Published: 1988
Place of publication: New Brunswick, NJ
Language: eng
Number of pages: 472
Subjects: Information services; Mass media -- Social aspects.; Human behavior.; Communication -- Psychological aspects
Notes: Includes references and index.
Table of contents: title: Telling stories in the information age / George Gerbner; title: How does information "inform"? / Lee Thayer; title: The concept of information: a historical perspective on modern theory and technology / Gordon L. Miller; title: Information, behavior, and meaning / Dorothy L. Kruegger and Nancy L. Harper; title: Computer science as a rhetoric / James W. Chesebro; title: Can we predict new technology's future? / Gordon C. Stone; title: Telework as a work-style innovation / Robert E. Kraut; title: Old, new, or high technology: channel selection for corporate training / Susanna R. Barber, Stephen K. Kwan, and Eileen M. Trauth; title: Process and structure in computer-mediated group communication / T. Andrew Finn; title: Origins, evolution, and development of a systems-based model of intrapersonal processes: a holistic view of man as information processor / Deborah Roach Barker, Larry L. Barker, and Margaret Fitch Hauser; title: Cognitive complexity and cognitive backlog in human information processing / Gregory S. Andriate and Michael J. Beatty; title: Humor and behavior: therapeutic aspects of comedic techniques and other considerations / Arthur Asa Berger; title: Attributing intention to communication: information as the interpretation of interaction / Peter Ehrenhaus; title: Media messages and information processing in interpersonal communication: "generally speaking" / Gerald R. Miller; title: the role of social values in information policy: the cases of France and Japan / Benjamin J. Bates; title: Information theory and interpersonal communication / Gloria P. Thomas and Gary F. Soldow; title: Communication in health professional-lay encounters: how often does each party know what the other wants to discuss? / Dorothy C. Wertz, James R. Sorenson, and Timothy C. Heeren; title: The chronic disease database: first principles to future directions / James F. Fries; title: The role of the physician data query on-line cancer system in health information dissemination / Gary L, Kreps, Susan M. Hubbard, and Vincent T. DeVita.