Everyday Information: The Evolution of Information Seeking in America

Reference Type Book
Year of Publication
2011
Contributors Editor: William Aspray
Editor: Barbara M. Hayes
Language
English
Number of Pages
359 pp.
Publisher
MIT Press
City
Cambridge, MA
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Region
United States
Demographics
Teenagers
Chronological Period
1900-1949
1950-1999
21st century
ISBN
9780262295734
Annotation

Contents: 

  • One hundred years of car buying / William Aspray
  • Informed giving : information on philanthropy in everyday life / Barbara M. Hayes
  • Airline travel : a history of information-seeking behavior by leisure and business passengers / Rachel D. Little, Cecelia D. Williams, and Jeffrey R. Yost
  • Genealogy as a hobby / James W. Cortada
  • 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
  • Information in the hobby of gourmet cooking : four contexts / Jenna Hartel
  • The transformation of public information in the United States / Gary Chapman and Angela Newell
  • Active readership : the case of the American comics reader / George Royer, Beth Nettels, and William Aspray
  • Information exchange and relationship maintenance among American youth : the case of text messaging / Arturo Longoria, Gesse Stark-Smith, and Barbara M. Hayes