Information and Society by Buckland, Michael
Information and Society by Buckland, Michael

Information and Society

A short, informal account of our ever-increasing dependence on a complex multiplicity of messages, records, documents, and...
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Information and Society by Buckland, Michael

Information and Society

Dhs. 85.52
Information and Society by Buckland, Michael

Information and Society

Dhs. 85.52
Author: Michael Buckland
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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A short, informal account of our ever-increasing dependence on a complex multiplicity of messages, records, documents, and data.

We live in an information society, or so we are often told. But what does that mean? This volume in the MIT Press Essential Knowledge series offers a concise, informal account of the ways in which information and society are related and of our ever-increasing dependence on a complex multiplicity of messages, records, documents, and data. Using information in its everyday, nonspecialized sense, Michael Buckland explores the influence of information on what we know, the role of communication and recorded information in our daily lives, and the difficulty (or ease) of finding information. He shows that all this involves human perception, social behavior, changing technologies, and issues of trust.

Buckland argues that every society is an "information society"; a "non-information society" would be a contradiction in terms. But the shift from oral and gestural communication to documents, and the wider use of documents facilitated by new technologies, have made our society particularly information intensive. Buckland describes the rising flood of data, documents, and records, outlines the dramatic long-term growth of documents, and traces the rise of techniques to cope with them. He examines the physical manifestation of information as documents, the emergence of data sets, and how documents and data are discovered and used. He explores what individuals and societies do with information; offers a basic summary of how collected documents are arranged and described; considers the nature of naming; explains the uses of metadata; and evaluates selection methods, considering relevance, recall, and precision.



Author: Michael Buckland
Publisher: Mit Press
Published: 03/03/2017
Pages: 232
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.45lbs
Size: 6.90h x 5.00w x 0.50d
ISBN: 9780262533386
Audience: Young Adult


Review Citation(s):
Choice 09/01/2017

About the Author
Buckland, Michael: - Michael Buckland is Emeritus Professor in the School of Information at the University of California, Berkeley, and Codirector of the Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative there.
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