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by Marie-Anne Chabin
Language: French
Release Date: April 24, 2013
Language: French
Release Date: April 24, 2013
Sur son blogue Impressions, Expressions, Marie-Anne Chabin a publié entre juillet 2011 et août 2012 cinquante-neuf billets relatives à la société de l'information. Fait particulier, tous ces mots se terminent pas "ité". Il s'agit de substantifs, bien entendu, dont plusieurs néologismes...
Scalable Information Systems
5th International Conference, INFOSCALE 2014, Seoul, South Korea, September 25-26, 2014, Revised Selected Papers
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2015
This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the International Conference on Scalable Information Systems, INFOSCALE 2014, held in September 2014 in Seoul, South Korea. The 9 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 14 submissions. The papers cover a wide range of topics such as scalable data analysis and big data applications.
International Business Research
Strategies and Resources
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2012
In the 21st century, most businesses participate in globalization, whether by entering new markets worldwide or dealing with competitors from around the world. In addition, the Internet and the accelerated evolution of related tools such as social media provide businesses, as well as individuals,...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2007
The intranet is among the primary landscapes in which information-based work occurs, yet many info pros view it with equal parts skepticism and dread. In Intranets for Info Pros, editors Kennedy and Dysart and 10 expert contributors provide a wealth of advice and support for the information professional...
Web 2.0 Knowledge Technologies and the Enterprise
Smarter, Lighter and Cheaper
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2010
Whilst enterprise technology departments have been steadily building their information and knowledge management portfolios, the Internet has generated new sets of tools and capabilities which provide opportunities and challenges for improving and enriching knowledge work. This book fills the gap between...
Conversing with Cancer
How to Ask Questions, Find and Share Information, and Make the Best Decisions
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2018
With more than 40% of people eventually facing a cancer diagnosis, Conversing with Cancer is a much-needed addition to understanding and improving cancer care through strong communication among providers, patients, and caregivers. Each person whose life is affected by a cancer diagnosis—patient,...
Google and the Digital Divide
The Bias of Online Knowledge
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2010
Beneficial to scholars and students in the fields of media and communication, politics and technology, this book outlines the significant role of search engines in general and Google in particular in widening the digital divide between individuals, organisations and states. It uses innovative methods...
by Randell K. Schmidt
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2013
This book helps educators foster academic success and college readiness: it demonstrates how to instruct high school students to find, process, and think about new information, and then synthesize that knowledge.
• Introduces the Information Search Process to students
• Supplies...
Digital Futures
Expert Briefings on Digital Technologies for Education and Research
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2015
A co-branded book project with Jisc (formerly the Joint Information Systems Commitee), off the back of DigiFest 2014, a digital festival run by Jisc for the first time in 2014. The aim of the book is to bring cutting-edge discussion as heard at DigiFest to the information professional/academic librarian...
Re-Inventing the Book
Challenges from the Past for the Publishing Industry
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2016
Re-Inventing the Book: Challenges from the Past for the Publishing Industry chronicles the significant changes that have taken place in the publishing industry in the past few decades and how they have altered the publishing value chain and the structure of the industry itself.
The book examines...
BiblioTech
Why Libraries Matter More Than Ever in the Age of Google
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2015
Libraries today are more important than ever. More than just book repositories, libraries can become bulwarks against some of the most crucial challenges of our age: unequal access to education, jobs, and information.
In BiblioTech, educator and technology expert John Palfrey argues that anyone...
Collaborative Access to Virtual Museum Collection Information
Seeing Through the Walls
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2005
Get practical tools to successfully develop collaborative online learning projects!
Virtual museums provide an opportunity to spark learning through online access to multi-sensory information, and collaboration between sources is needed to efficiently and effectively catalog and present material. Collaborative Access to Virtual Museum Co
Understanding and Communicating Social Informatics
A Framework for Studying and Teaching the Human Contexts of Information and Communication Technologies
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2005
Here is a sustained investigation into the human contexts of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs), covering both research and theory in this emerging field. Authors Kling, Rosenbaum, and Sawyer demonstrate that the design, adoption, and use of ICTs are deeply connected to peoples actions...
by Robin M. Fay, Michael P. Sauers
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012
There are trillions of bytes of information within the web, all of it driven by behind-the-scenes data. Vast quantities of information make it hard to find what’s really important. Here’s a practical guide to the future of web-based technology, especially search. It provides the knowledge and skills...