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Information 2.0 : new models of information production, distribution and consumption /

This textbook provides an overview of the digital information landscape and explains the implications of the technological changes for the information industry, from publishers and broadcasters to the information professionals who manage information in all its forms.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: De Saulles, Martin
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London : Facet, 2012.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Title page; Contents; Preface; 1 Introduction; What is information?; The foundations of the information society; The internet as a driver of change; The big challenges of big data; What about the information providers?; New ways of creating information; Where do we put all this information?; Why information matters; 2 New models of information production; Introduction; Blogs: the state of the blogosphere; Blogging 2.0; Who can you trust?; Blogs and social media as agents of change; Blogging for money; The economics of print media; The transition to digital news; Digital-only news publishers.
  • The new generation of news consumersBusiness publishing; Wikis and collaborative publishing; Search engines and what they know; Gaming Google; Does Google know too much?; Our social graphs; What are we worth?; The challenge of big data; Data types; When everything is connected; Data as the new currency; Concluding comments; 3 New models of information storage; Introduction; Preserving the internet; How organizations store information; Academia; Legal requirements; Data mining; Collection digitization; Keeping it all safe; Storage at the personal level; Putting it in the cloud.
  • Our digital footprintsThe future of storage; Concluding comments; 4 New models of information distribution; Introduction; The architecture of the internet; Distribution and disintermediation; The new intermediaries; Intermediaries in the shadows; Copyright-friendly intermediaries; Online video
  • we are all celebrities now; The video classroom; Open government and the internet; Proactive government; Defensive government; Offensive government; Helping the information flow both ways; Making money from public information; Threats to the open web; Concluding comments.
  • 5 New models of information consumptionIntroduction; Information consumption devices; Mobile consumption devices; Looking beyond the artefact; It's all about the apps; Information ecosystems: gilded cages or innovation hotbeds?; Returning to an open web; HTML5
  • an antidote to appification?; The experiential web; Rent or buy?; Making sense of it all; Information literacy; Information overload; Implications for information professionals; Concluding comments; 6 Conclusion; Introduction; The struggle for control in a networked world; Implications for information professionals.
  • The knowledge management opportunityThe future of search; Ninja librarians; Implications for publishers; The copyright challenge; Hooked on tablets; Implications for society; Internet everywhere; Nowhere to hide; Concluding comments; References; Index.