Everyday information : the evolution of information seeking in America /
edited by William Aspray and Barbara M. Hayes.
- Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2011.
- 359 p. ; 23 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Information behavior--United States--Case studies. Information society--History--United States--Case studies. Human information processing--History--Case studies. Information retrieval--History--United States--Case studies. Sociedad de la Información--Estados Unidos. Procesamiento de información humana. Recuperación de la información.