Web Work: Information Seeking and Knowledge Work on the World Wide Web

by Chun Wei Choo, Brian Detlor, Don Turnbull

Book Overview

This book brings together three great motifs of the network society: the seeking and using of information by individuals and groups; the creation and application of knowledge in organizations; and the fundamental transformation of these activities as they are enacted on the Internet and the World Wide Web. Of the three, the study of how individuals and groups seek information probably has the longest history, beginning with the early "information...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0792364600
• ISBN13: 9780792364603
• Release Date: August 2000
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 219 Pages
• Weight: 1.13 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.5" x 9.7"