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  • Information and Society

    by Michael Buckland ...
    Series series The MIT Press Essential Knowledge series
    A short, informal account of our ever-increasing dependence on a complex multiplicity of messages, records, documents, and data.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 ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

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    Information and Society

    by Michael Buckland ...
    Narrated by Steven Jay Cohen ...

    Unabridged

    3 hours 48 min

    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 ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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  • The Discipline of Organizing

    Edited by Robert J. Glushko ...
    A framework for the theory and practice of organizing that integrates the concepts and methods of information organization and information retrieval.Organizing is such a common activity that we often do it without thinking much about it. In our daily lives we organize physical things—books on shelves, cutlery in kitchen drawers—and digital things—Web pages, MP3 files, scientific datasets. Millions ... Read more

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    by Andrew Abbott ...
    Series series Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing, and Publishing
    "Shows the reader how to harness new technology while upholding the highest standards of research. The result is a joy to read . . . a boon for students." —Robert J. Sampson, professor of the social sciences at Harvard UniversityToday's researchers have access to more information than ever before. Yet the new material is both overwhelming in quantity and variable in quality. How can scholars ... Read more

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  • Essential Speech and Language Technology for Dutch

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    Edited by Peter Spyns, Jan Odijk ...
    Series series Computer Science (R0)
    The book provides an overview of more than a decade of joint R&D efforts in the Low Countries on HLT for Dutch. It not only presents the state of the art of HLT for Dutch in the areas covered, but, even more importantly, a description of the resources (data and tools) for Dutch that have been created are now available for both academia and industry worldwide.The contributions cover many areas of ... Read more

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  • Making Design Theory

    by Johan Redstrom ...
    Series series Design Thinking, Design Theory
    A new approach to theory development for practice-driven research, proposing that theory is something made in and through design.Tendencies toward “academization” of traditionally practice-based fields have forced design to articulate itself as an academic discipline, in theoretical terms. In this book, Johan Redström offers a new approach to theory development in design research–one that is ... Read more

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  • Scientific and Technical Translation Explained

    A Nuts and Bolts Guide for Beginners

    by Jody Byrne ...
    Series series Translation Practices Explained
    From microbiology to nuclear physics and chemistry to software engineering, scientific and technical translation is a complex activity that involves communicating specialized information on a variety of subjects across multiple languages. It requires expert linguistic knowledge and writing skills, combined with the ability to research and understand complex concepts and present them to a range of ... Read more

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  • The Elements of Library Research

    What Every Student Needs to Know

    by Mary W. George ...
    "A lively, succinct, and readable introduction" to conducting academic research—from devising research questions to evaluating sources and more (Joseph Harris, Duke University).To do solid academic research, college students need to look beyond the computer search engine. This short, practical book introduces students to the important components of the information-seeking process. The Elements of ... Read more

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    About the necessity and usefulness of developing a philosophy specific to the blockchain technology, emphasizing on the ontological aspects. After an Introduction that highlights the main philosophical directions for this emerging technology, in Blockchain Technology I explain the way the blockchain works, discussing ontological development directions of this technology in Designing and Modeling. ... Read more

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  • The Discipline of Organizing: Professional Edition

    by Robert J. Glushko ...
    We organize things. We organize information, information about things, and information about information. Organizing is a fundamental issue in many professional fields, but these fields have only limited agreement in how they approach problems of organizing and in what they seek as their solutions.The Discipline of Organizing synthesizes insights from library science, information science, computer ... Read more

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