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Title Everyday information [electronic resource] : the evolution of information seeking in America / edited by William Aspray and Barbara M. Hayes.

Imprint Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2011.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe ProQuest E-Book  Electronic Book    ---  Available
Description 359 p. : ill.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents 100 years of car buying / William Aspray -- Informed giving : information on philanthropy in everyday life / Barbara Hayes -- Airline travel : a history of information seeking behavior by leisure and business passengers / Rachel Little, Cecelia Williams, and Jeffrey Yost -- Genealogy as a hobby / James 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 comic 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 Hayes.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject Information behavior -- United States -- Case studies.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Aspray, William.
Hayes, Barbara M., 1955-
ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 9780262015011 (alk. paper)
9780262515610 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780262295734 (electronic bk.)

 
    
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