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Information and society /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Information and society // Michael Buckland.
Author:	Buckland, Michael,
Description:	1 PDF (xiv, 217 pages) :illustrations. :
Subject:	Information science - Sociological aspects. -
Online resource:	http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/bkabstractplus.jsp?bkn=7894591
ISBN:	9780262339544

Information and society /
Buckland, Michael,

Information and society /Michael Buckland. - 1 PDF (xiv, 217 pages) :illustrations. - The MIT Press essential knowledge series. - MIT Press essential knowledge series..

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Foreword / by David Bawden -- Preface -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Document and evidence -- 3. Individual and community -- 4. Organizing : arrangement and description -- 5. Naming -- 6. Metadata -- 7. Discovery and selection -- 8. Evaluation of selection methods -- 9. Summary and reflections -- Appendix A. Anatomy of selection -- Appendix B. Retrieval evaluation measures.

Restricted to subscribers or individual electronic text purchasers.

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.

Mode of access: World Wide Web

ISBN: 9780262339544Subjects--Topical Terms:

804720
Information science
--Sociological aspects.Index Terms--Genre/Form:

554714
Electronic books.

LC Class. No.: HM851 / .B835 2017eb

Dewey Class. No.: 303.48/33

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