INST 352 Lecture 2: INST352 Lecture 2: Intro continued
10 Feb 2019
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In thinking about this holistic view of people"s worlds, the internet itself could serve as a metaphor for information behavior and the way our view of it has changed. If you can, think back to a time before the world wide web was available. All of the information was out there in individual books, journals, radio and tv programs, offices, filing cabinets, minds, and computers. However, because it was divided by source, by location, by person, and by channel, it was not always easily located or examined. In terms of research, each of those needs and transactions has needed to be conducted (and studied) separately. Now, it is possible to satisfy all travel related requests on a single website, often with no direct engagement with other people. Not only have many different channels of communication collapsed down to one, but less goal- oriented behaviors, such as browsing, also now play a larger role than ever before.
