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  1. Information society : new media, ethics, and postmodernism

    London ; New York : Springer, c1996.

    This volume examines three critical debates of post-industrial society: culture and technology, information society, and postmodernism. It aims to provide theoretical and methodological underpinnings for the analysis and design of information, communication and multimedia technologies.

  2. Information and society

    Buckland, Michael K., 1941-
    Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2017]

    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 on a complex multiplicity of messages, records, documents, and data. 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 an "information society"; a "non-information society" would be a contradiction in terms. But the shift from oral and gestural communication to documents, and the wider use of documents facilitated by new technologies, have made our society particularly information intensive. Buckland describes the rising flood of data, documents, and records, outlines the dramatic long-term growth of documents, and traces the rise of techniques to cope with them. He examines the physical manifestation of information as documents, the emergence of data sets, and how documents and data are discovered and used. He explores what individuals and societies do with information; offers a basic summary of how collected documents are arranged and described; considers the nature of naming; explains the uses of metadata; and evaluates selection methods, considering relevance, recall, and precision.

    Online IEEE Xplore Digital Library

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  1. Natural earth

    Patterson, Tom, Kelso, Nathaniel Vaughn, and North American Cartographic Information Society
    2009

    Began in 2009. Natural Earth is a public domain map data set available at 1:10m, 1:50m, and 1:110m scales, featuring vector and raster data. Primar...

  2. 10-Degree Graticule Grid, World, 1:10 million, 2012

    Patterson, Tom and Kelso, Nathaniel Vaughn
    2012

    This line shapefile displays graticules (grid lines of latitude parallels and longitude meridians) for the world at 10 degree intervals. Graticules...

  3. 10-Degree Graticule Grid, World, 1:110 million, 2012

    Patterson, Tom and Kelso, Nathaniel Vaughn
    2012

    This line shapefile displays graticules (grid lines of latitude parallels and longitude meridians) for the world at 10 degree intervals. Graticules...

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