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Routledge
552 Pages
by
Routledge
552 Pages
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Routledge
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The current popularity of such phrases as "information age" and 'information society" suggests thatlinks between information,communication, and: behavior have become closer and more complex in a technology-dominated culture. Social scientists have adopted an integrated approach to these concepts, opening up new theoretical perspectives on the media, social psychology, personal relationships, group... Read more
I: Theories; 1: Communication and Information; 2: A History of Information Theory in Communication Research; 3: The Impact of a Native Theory of Information on Two Privileged Accounts of Personhood; 4: Measurement of Information and Communication: A Set of Definitions; 5: Deconstructing Information; 6: A Foucauldian Perspective of the Relationship between Communication and Information; 7: Information Theory and Telecommunications: A Review; II: Disciplinary Connections; 8: An Etymological Exploration of the Links between Information and Communication; 9: Context and Content of Citations between Communication and Library and Information Science Articles; 10: Integrating Concepts for the Information Age: Communication, Information, Mediation, and Institutions; III: Individual and Social Context; 11: Interrelationships between Information- Seeking Skills, Information-Seeking Behavior, and the Usage of Information Sources; 12: Reducing Errors in Health-Related Memory: Progress and Prospects; 13: Children’s Interest in Computers: A Social Cognitive Perspective; 14: Patient-Practitioner Information Exchange as an Asymmetrical Social Encounter: Do Patients Actually Know What Their Practitioners Think They Know?; 15: Judgment Model Overlap and Decision-making Group Processes; 16: Designing Groupware for Implementation; 17: News Story Generation with Hard Copy and Magnetic Media Information Sources: The Impact of Information Technology; 18: Communication, Information, and Surveillance: Separation and Control in Organizations; IV: Societal Contexts; 19: On the Prospects for Redefining Universal Service: From Connectivity to Content; 20: Transaction-Generated Information (TGI): Signaling, Sorting, and the Communication of Self; 21: Media Development and Public Space: The Legislating of Social Interaction; 22: The Politics of Information: A Study of the French Minitel System; 23: Information, Information Society, and Some Marxian Propositions
Biography
Brent D. Ruben
