1st Edition

Information Worlds Behavior, Technology, and Social Context in the Age of the Internet

By Paul T. Jaeger, Gary Burnett Copyright 2010
214 Pages
by Routledge

214 Pages
by Routledge

214 Pages
by Routledge

The authors present a multi-level theory of "Information Worlds" to investigate the ways in which information creates the social worlds of people. Building upon the foundational works of Library and Information Studies (LIS) scholar and theorist Elfreda Chatman and philosopher Jurgen Habermas, as well as from theory and research from a wide range of other fields, the theory of information... Read more

Introduction Acknowledgments 1. Theory, Information, and Society  2. Information Worlds 3. Information Value  4. The Evolution of Information Access and Exchange  5. Public Libraries in the Public Sphere  6. Information Worlds and Technological Change  7. News, Media, and Information Worlds  8. Information Worlds and the Political World  9. Applications of the Theory of Information Worlds  10. The Future of Information Theory Bibliograpy Index

Biography

Paul T. Jaeger is an Assistant Professor in the College of Information Studies and Director of the Center for Information Policy and Electronic Government at the University of Maryland. He is also the Associate Editor of Library Quarterly, and the author of more than seventy journal articles and book chapters, along with six books.

Gary Burnett, Ph.D., has been an Associate Professor at the College of Communication and Information of Florida State University since 1996. Dr. Burnett is the author of a book on the American poet H.D., and his research has appeared in a number of journals.