Everyday information [electronic resource] : the evolution of information seeking in America / edited by William Aspray and Barbara M. Hayes.
Publication details: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2011.Description: 359 p. : illISBN:- 9780262015011 (alk. paper)
- 9780262515610 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 9780262295734 (e-book)
- 025.5/24 22
- ZA3075 .E94 2011eb

Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2011. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.