03163cam a2200313 i 4500 ocn958098988 OCoLC ta 210528s2017 maua b 001 0 eng 9780262533386 (pbk. ; alk. paper) 0262533383 (pbk. ; alk. paper) (OCoLC)958098988 HM851 .B835 2017 Buckland, Michael K., 1941- Information and society / Michael Buckland. Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, c2017. xiv, 217 p. : ill. The MIT Press essential knowledge series Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-213) and index. Introduction -- Document and evidence -- Individual and community -- Organizing : arrangement and description -- Naming -- Metadata -- Discovery and selection -- Evaluation of selection methods -- Summary and reflections -- Appendix A: anatomy of selection -- Appendix B: retrieval evaluation measures. "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."--Page 4 of cover. "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."--Publisher's description. Information science Sociological aspects. Communication Social aspects. Documentation Social aspects. Information society. MIT Press essential knowledge series. lcc BK 0 0 0 0 PNLIB PNLIB GEN 2021-06-17 HM851 .B835 2017 PNLIB21062394 2021-06-17 2021-06-17 BK 2581 2581