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.

0262015013 (alk. paper) 9780262015011 (alk. paper) 026251561X (pbk. : alk. paper) 9780262515610 (pbk. : alk. paper)

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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.

ZA 3075 / G721 2011

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