Information experience : approaches to theory and practice / edited by Christine Bruce, Kate Davis, Hilary Hughes, Helen Partridge and Ian Stoodley.
Material type: TextSeries: Library and information sciencePublisher: Bingley, United Kingdom : Emerald, 2014Edition: 1st editionDescription: xxiii, 338 pages : illustrationsContent type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9781783508167 (ebook)Subject(s): Information science -- Sociological aspects | Information retrieval -- Psychological aspects | Libraries and Museums | Library & information sciences / Museology | Library, archive & information managementGenre/Form: Additional physical formats: ebook version:: No titleOnline access: Open e-book Also available in printed form ISBN 9781783508150Summary: This book on Information experience is very relevant with its reflections on information, knowledge, user experience, design and education. The writers provide a vibrant assessment on current developments within information experience, whilst approaching the idea from diverse perspectives. ""The German word for experience - Erlebnis - the experience of the life, to live through something - underpins this book: making visible scholarly opportunities for richer and deeper contextualizations and examinations of the lived-world experiences of people in everyday contexts as they be, do and become." (Ross Todd, Preface). Information experience is a burgeoning area of research and still unfolding as an explicit research and practice theme. This book is therefore very timely as it distils the reflections of researchers and practitioners from various disciplines, with interests ranging across information, knowledge, user experience, design and education. They cast a fresh analytical eye on information experience, whilst approaching the idea from diverse perspectives. Information Experience brings together current thinking about the idea of information experience to help form discourse around it and establish a conceptual foundation for taking the idea forward. It therefore "provides a number of theoretical lenses for examining people's information worlds in more holistic and dynamic ways." (Todd, Preface)."Item type | Current library | Home library | Class number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item reservations | |
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
This book on Information experience is very relevant with its reflections on information, knowledge, user experience, design and education. The writers provide a vibrant assessment on current developments within information experience, whilst approaching the idea from diverse perspectives. ""The German word for experience - Erlebnis - the experience of the life, to live through something - underpins this book: making visible scholarly opportunities for richer and deeper contextualizations and examinations of the lived-world experiences of people in everyday contexts as they be, do and become." (Ross Todd, Preface). Information experience is a burgeoning area of research and still unfolding as an explicit research and practice theme. This book is therefore very timely as it distils the reflections of researchers and practitioners from various disciplines, with interests ranging across information, knowledge, user experience, design and education. They cast a fresh analytical eye on information experience, whilst approaching the idea from diverse perspectives. Information Experience brings together current thinking about the idea of information experience to help form discourse around it and establish a conceptual foundation for taking the idea forward. It therefore "provides a number of theoretical lenses for examining people's information worlds in more holistic and dynamic ways." (Todd, Preface)."
Also available in printed form ISBN 9781783508150
Electronic reproduction. Askews and Holts. Mode of access: World Wide Web.
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