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• Introduction: Pervasive Information Interactions Background: Information Interaction at the Crossroads of Research Traditions The Situations: Physical, Social and Temporal The Behaviors: Understanding the ""Information Journey"" The Technologies: Supporting the Information Journey Studying User Behaviors and Needs for Information Interaction Looking to the Future Further Reading.
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We live in an ""information age, "" but information is only useful when it is interpreted by people and applied in the context of their goals and activities. The volume of information to which people have access is growing at an incredible rate, vastly outstripping people's ability to assimilate and manage it. In order to design technologies that better support information work, it is necessary to better understand the details of that work. In this lecture, we review the situations (physical, social and temporal) in which people interact with information. We also discuss how people interact with information in terms of an ""information journey, "" in which people, iteratively, do the following: recognise a need for information, find information, interpret and evaluate that information in the context of their goals, and use the interpretation to support their broader activities. People's information needs may be explicit and clearly articulated but, conversely, may be tacit, exploratory and evolving. Widely used tools supporting information access, such as searching on the Web and in digital libraries, support clearly defined information requirements well, but they provide limited support for other information needs. Most other stages of the information journey are poorly supported at present. Novel design solutions are unlikely to be purely digital, but to exploit the rich variety of information resources, digital, physical and social, that are available. Theories of information interaction and sensemaking can highlight new design possibilities that augment human capabilities. We review relevant theories and findings for understanding information behaviours, and we review methods for evaluating information working tools, to both assess existing tools and identify requirements for the future.
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• Preface. Acknowledgements. Part I The Principles.
• CHAPTER 1: Information on Information. History of Information. Meaning of Information. Characteristics of Information. Attributes of Information. A Definition of Information. Value of Information. Notes.
• CHAPTER 2: A Lot of Information. Concept of Information Overload. Definitions of Information Overload. Collecting Mania. Collecting Strategies. Barriers to Information Use. Symptoms of Information Overload. Causes of Information Overload. Information Overload Today. Notes.
• CHAPTER 3: Brain Matters. History of Our Brain. Brain Facts. Brain Metaphors. Types of Memory. Remembering and Recalling. Left Brain versus Right Brain. Dreaming. Mirroring.
• CHAPTER 4: We People. Some Observations. Information Behavior. Information Behavior Theories. Conclusion. Notes. Part II In Practice.
• CHAPTER 5: Information Profile. A Person's Background. Information Aptitude. Information Attitude. Information Handling. Conclusion. Notes.
• CHAPTER 6: Mind Your Brain. Sensitive Information. Mixed Feelings. Food for Thought. Brain Muscles.
• CHAPTER 7: Brain at Work. Pay Attention. Remember to Remember. Remember to Forget. Stop! Notes.
• CHAPTER 8: The Information Brain. Search and Find. Save Everything. Order, Please. Filter. Information Pruning. Notes.
• CHAPTER 9: Information at Work. Learn Smarter. Information Productivity. Smart Information Workers. Technology Smart. Notes.
• CHAPTER 10: Clever Communication. Communicate Information. Storytelling. Picture Perfect. Navigating the Information Sea. Notes.
• CHAPTER 11: People at Work. Smart People. Managing Information Workers. Timing Is Everything. Seasoned Citizens. Notes. References. Index.
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World-class guidance on using information to achieve better performance Examining the characteristics of information and the latest findings in cognitive science, this book shows how the mind works, how it can be used to think optimally about your business, and how to improve business performance with better information management practices. Provides the process and tools necessary to identify this information and how to remember it, and how to better use the people around you to obtain the best information Reveals how to handle all of the hundreds of pieces of information received daily Provides case studies as well as checklists that show managers how to implement the methodology presented in the book Innovative and ahead of its time, this book helps you take control of all the information that enters your life, get better informed, and have more time for the important issues you face within your business.
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"The purpose of the book is to deliver a critical review of the literature and author's research data relevant for understanding the phenomena of curiosity, information seeking behavior, and novelty seeking. The book is designed to be a comprehensive and systematic lecture of areas related to the main subject in a way that will enable the reader to grasp the notion of development in terms of the evolutionary time scale and ontogenesis. Each of the subjects is explained on the basis of three perspectives: ultimate factors, integrative levels, and proximate mechanisms. This work is intended to integrate approaches adopted within psychology, ethology, and behavioral neuroscience. The major uniqueness is related to the integrative levels framework, which is not very often utilized the the contemporary books on the subject. This is why the book offers holistic, complete presentation of the area that it does cover. It should be of interests of students of psychology, animal behavior, as well teachers and educators. It provides refreshing cues for creative thinking about human curiosity. The present edition includes new data and the discussion of the new literature on the subject"-- Provided by publisher.

• Introduction Defining Exploratory Search Related Work Features of Exploratory Search Systems Evaluation of Exploratory Search Systems Future Directions and concluding Remarks.
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As information becomes more ubiquitous and the demands that searchers have on search systems grow, there is a need to support search behaviors beyond simple lookup. Information seeking is the process or activity of attempting to obtain information in both human and technological contexts. Exploratory search describes an information-seeking problem context that is open-ended, persistent, and multifaceted, and information-seeking processes that are opportunistic, iterative, and multitactical. Exploratory searchers aim to solve complex problems and develop enhanced mental capacities. Exploratory search systems support this through symbiotic human-machine relationships that provide guidance in exploring unfamiliar information landscapes. Exploratory search has gained prominence in recent years. There is an increased interest from the information retrieval, information science, and human-computer interaction communities in moving beyond the traditional turn-taking interaction model supported by major Web search engines, and toward support for human intelligence amplification and information use. In this lecture, we introduce exploratory search, relate it to relevant extant research, outline the features of exploratory search systems, discuss the evaluation of these systems, and suggest some future directions for supporting exploratory search. Exploratory search is a new frontier in the search domain and is becoming increasingly important in shaping our future world.
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• Empowering metaliterate learners for the post-truth world / Thomas P. Mackey
• The materiality of metaliteracy : a documentary approach and perspective for information and literacy practices in the post-truth era / Marc Kosciejew
• Inoculation theory and the metaliterate learner / Josh Compton
• Constructing scientific literacy through metaliteracy : implications for learning in a post-truth world / Allison B. Brungard and Kristin Klucevsek
• When stories and pictures lie together-and you do not even know it / Thomas Palmer
• Teaching and learning with metaliterate LIS professionals / Nicole A. Cooke and Rachel M. Magee
• First, teach students to be wrong / Allison Hosier
• Fictional affect and metaliterate learning through genre / Jaclyn Partyka
• Poetic ethnography and metaliteracy : empowering voices in a hybrid theater arts course / Kimmika L.H. Williams-Witherspoon.

Metaliteracy, Jacobson and Mackey's revolutionary framework for information literacy, is especially well suited as a tool for ensuring that learners can successfully navigate the proliferation of fake news, questionable content, and outright denialism of facts in today's information morass. Indeed, it is starkly evident that the competencies, knowledge, and personal attributes specific to metaliterate individuals are critical; digital literacy and traditional conceptions of information literacy are insufficient for the significant challenges we currently face. This book examines the newest version of the Metaliteracy Goals and Learning Objectives, including the four domains of metaliterate learning, as well as the relationship between metaliteracy and the ACRL Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education. Featuring contributions from a variety of information literacy instructors, educators, librarians, and faculty, the chapters in this book; discuss the social, political, and ethical dimensions of information creation, distribution, and use; use case studies to demonstrate how metaliteracy guides learners to read online information with a critical eye, apply metacognitive thinking to the consumption of all information, and make purposeful and responsible contributions to the social media ecosystem as active participants; examine when images are taken out of context and paired with misleading text, a prevalent feature of the misinformation frequently shared via social media; and situates metaliteracy in such contexts such as the academic library, a science class, fiction writing, digital storytelling, and a theater arts course. Metaliteracy is a powerful model for preparing learners to be responsible participants in today's divisive information environment, and this book showcases several teaching and learning practices that have already proven effective.
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"We will discuss the impact of the information explosion, the effectiveness of current technological directions, and explore the success that new perception-based, human-computer interfaces provide in analyzing and understanding complex data. Real examples will be used to illustrate that effective man-machine environments are essential in productively dealing with multi-dimensional information."--Resource description page.

• 1. The many meanings of information
• Five senses of information
• Information senses framework
• Information terminology and the socio-technical perspective.

• 2. Information as thought and memory
• Noumenal clouds
• What we know
• Memory
• Perception
• How we know
• Information processing and cognitive architectures
• Biological information processing
• What we feel.

• 3. Information as communication process
• Human acts of information
• Intention
• Execution
• The effects of information acts.

• 4. Interaction as information act
• Information as artifact
• Artifacts
• Form
• Substrate
• Methods
• Tools
• Information life spiral
• Create
• Personal manage
• Personal use
• Share
• Public manage
• Public use
• Artifact evolution
• Electronic information artifacts and human experience.

• 5. Information as energy
• Change in physical state: reduction in uncertainty
• Change in mental and social states.

• 6. Information as identity in cyberspace: the fifth voice
• Cyberspace
• Cyberinfrastructure interfaces
• Human information interaction
• Use and interaction
• People interacting with information artifacts
• Agents
• Levels of interaction
• Information interaction summary
• Personal and public identities
• Personal identity
• Public identities
• Projections, reflections, and proflections of identity
• Exoinformation and projections
• Reflections.

• 7. Conclusion and directions
• Bibliography
• Author's biography.

Information is essential to all human activity, and information in electronic form both amplifies and augments human information interactions. This lecture surveys some of the different classical meanings of information, focuses on the ways that electronic technologies are affecting how we think about these senses of information, and introduces an emerging sense of information that has implications for how we work, play, and interact with others. The evolutions of computers and electronic networks and people's uses and adaptations of these tools manifesting a dynamic space called cyberspace. Our traces of activity in cyberspace give rise to a new sense of information as instantaneous identity states that I term proflection of self. Proflections of self influence how others act toward us. Four classical senses of information are described as context for this new form of information. The four senses selected for inclusion here are the following: thought and memory, communication process, artifact, and energy. Human mental activity and state (thought and memory) have neurological, cognitive, and affective facets. The act of informing (communication process) is considered from the perspective of human intentionality and technical developments that have dramatically amplified human communication capabilities. Information artifacts comprise a common sense of information that gives rise to a variety of information industries. Energy is the most general sense of information and is considered from the point of view of physical, mental, and social state change. This sense includes information theory as a measurable reduction in uncertainty. This lecture emphasizes how electronic representations have blurred media boundaries and added computational behaviors that yield new forms of information interaction, which, in turn, are stored, aggregated, and mined to create profiles that represent our cyber identities.

• Acknowledgments Preface
• 1. Introduction
• 2. Literature Review: The influence of context on information behavior
• 3. Mapping the conceptual space of context
• 4. Discussion
• 5. Definition and conclusions
• 6. Further Reading References Author Biography.
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The field of human information behavior runs the gamut of processes from the realization of a need or gap in understanding, to the search for information from one or more sources to fill that gap, to the use of that information to complete a task at hand or to satisfy a curiosity, as well as other behaviors such as avoiding information or finding information serendipitously. Designers of mechanisms, tools and computer-based systems to facilitate this seeking and search process often lack a full knowledge of the context surrounding the search. This context may vary depending on the job or role of the person, individual characteristics such as personality, domain knowledge, age, gender, perception of self, etc., the task at hand, the source and the channel as well as their degree of accessibility and usability, and the relationship that the seeker shares with the source. Yet researchers still do not to agree on what context really means. While there have been various research studies incorporating context and biennial conferences on context in information behavior, there lacks a clear definition of what context is, what its boundaries are, and what elements and variables comprise context. This book looks at the many definitions and theoretical and empirical studies of context, and the author attempts to map the conceptual space of context in information behavior. The book proposes theoretical frameworks for mapping the boundaries, elements and variables of context. It further discusses how to incorporate these frameworks and variables in the design of research studies on context. The author then arrives at a unified definition of context. This book should provide a better understanding of context to designers of search systems as they seek to meet the needs and demands of information seekers. It will be an important resource for researchers in Library and Information Science, especially doctoral students looking for one resource that covers an exhaustive range of the most current literature related to context, the best selection of classics, and a synthesis of these into theoretical frameworks and a unified definition. The book should help to move forward research in the field by clarifying pertinent elements, variables, and views. In particular, the list of elements to be considered, and the variables associated with each element, will be extremely useful to researchers wanting to include the influences of context in their studies.
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• Introduction Existing Research University of Maryland's Children and Internet Search Studies and the Search Role Framework Roles of Reaction: Developing and Non-Motivated Searchers Roles of Preference: Rule-Bound, Domain-Specific, and Visual Searchers Roles of Proficiency" Power and Social Searchers Conclusions Acknowledgments References Author Biographies.
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Searching the Internet and the ability to competently use search engines are increasingly becoming an important part of children's daily lives. Whether mobile or at home, children use search interfaces to explore personal interests, complete academic assignments, and have social interaction. However, engaging with search also means engaging with an ever-changing and evolving search landscape. There are continual software updates, multiple devices used to search (e.g., phones, tablets), an increasing use of social media, and constantly updated Internet content. For young searchers, this can require infinite adaptability or mean being hopelessly confused. This book offers a perspective centered on children's search experiences as a whole instead of thinking of search as a process with separate and potentially problematic steps. Reading the prior literature with a child-centered view of search reveals that children have been remarkably consistent over time as searchers, displaying the same search strategies regardless of the landscape of search. However, no research has synthesized these consistent patterns in children's search across the literature, and only recently have these patterns been uncovered as distinct search roles, or searcher types. Based on a four-year longitudinal study on children's search experiences, this book weaves together the disparate evidence in the literature through the use of 9 search roles for children ages 7-15. The search role framework has a distinct advantage because it encourages adult stakeholders to design children's search tools to support and educate children at their existing levels of search strength and deficit, rather than expecting children to adapt to a transient search landscape.
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• Contents
• Footprints
• 1. The Ocean of Troubles and Trials wherein We Saile
• 2. A Messenger Comes
• 3. Native Tongues
• 4. Post Haste
• 5. An Adder in the Path
• 6. Terror Ubique Tremor
• Milestones
• A Note on Method
• Abbreviations
• Notes
• Acknowledgments
• Index

Katherine Grandjean shows that the English conquest of New England was not just a matter of consuming territory, of transforming woods into farms. It entailed a struggle to control the flow of information-who could travel where, what news could be sent, over which routes winding through the woods along the early American communications frontier.
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New England was built on letters. Its colonists left behind thousands of them, brittle and browning and crammed with curls of purplish script. How they were delivered, though, remains mysterious. We know surprisingly little about the way news and people traveled in early America. No postal service or newspapers existed-not until 1704 would readers be able to glean news from a "public print." But there was, in early New England, an unseen world of travelers, rumors, movement, and letters. Unearthing that early American communications frontier, American Passage retells the story of English colonization as less orderly and more precarious than the quiet villages of popular imagination. The English quest to control the northeast entailed a great struggle to control the flow of information. Even when it was meant solely for English eyes, news did not pass solely through English hands. Algonquian messengers carried letters along footpaths, and Dutch ships took them across waterways. Who could travel where, who controlled the routes winding through the woods, who dictated what news might be sent-in Katherine Grandjean's hands, these questions reveal a new dimension of contest and conquest in the northeast. Gaining control of New England was not solely a matter of consuming territory, of transforming woods into farms. It also meant mastering the lines of communication.
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• How to Lose Friends and Alienate People: The High Cost to Business of Poor Information Experiences. Information Experience: Contemporary Perspectives. Researching Information Experience: Object and Domain. Informed Bodies: Does the Corporeal Experience Matter to Information Literacy Practice?. Researching Information Experience: Methodological Snapshots. Information Experiences of Teen Content Creators. Exploring Information Literacy during a Natural Disaster: The 2011 Brisbane Flood. Information Experiences: A Native American's Perspective. Experiential Brutality in Sense Making: Researching Dynamic Sense Making Processes in Online Discussions about Kidney Failure. Diversifying Information Literacy Research: An Informed Learning Perspective. Information Experiences in the Workplace: Foundations for an Informed Systems Approach. Information Experiences of Female Legislators: Examining Constituency Activities and Representation in the Ugandan Parliament. The Expert Searcher's Experience of Information. Experiences of Informed Learning in the Undergraduate Classroom. The Emotional Valence of Information Experience: Relation to Personality and Approach to Studying. Information Experience in the Context of Information Seeking Methods by Prospective Students. Information Experience: New Perspectives and Research Directions. A Reflection on the Relationship between the Study of People's Information Behaviour and Information Literacy: Changes in Epistemology and Focus. Creating and Expressing: Information- As-It-Is-Experienced. List of Contributors. List of Editors. Preface. Index. Information Experience: Approaches to Theory and Practice. Editorial Advisory Board. About the Authors. Library and Information Science. Information Experience: Approaches to Theory and Practice. Copyright page. How to Lose Friends and Alienate People: The High Cost to Business of Poor Information Experiences. Information Experience: Contemporary Perspectives. Researching Information Experience: Object and Domain. Informed Bodies: Does the Corporeal Experience Matter to Information Literacy Practice?. Researching Information Experience: Methodological Snapshots. Information Experiences of Teen Content Creators. Exploring Information Literacy during a Natural Disaster: The 2011 Brisbane Flood. Information Experiences: A Native American's Perspective. Experiential Brutality in Sense Making: Researching Dynamic Sense Making Processes in Online Discussions about Kidney Failure. Diversifying Information Literacy Research: An Informed Learning Perspective. Information Experiences in the Workplace: Foundations for an Informed Systems Approach. Information Experiences of Female Legislators: Examining Constituency Activities and Representation in the Ugandan Parliament. The Expert Searcher's Experience of Information. Experiences of Informed Learning in the Undergraduate Classroom. The Emotional Valence of Information Experience: Relation to Personality and Approach to Studying. Information Experience in the Context of Information Seeking Methods by Prospective Students. Information Experience: New Perspectives and Research Directions. A Reflection on the Relationship between the Study of People's Information Behaviour and Information Literacy: Changes in Epistemology and Focus. Creating and Expressing: Information- As-It-Is-Experienced. List of Contributors. List of Editors. Preface. Index. Information Experience: Approaches to Theory and Practice. Editorial Advisory Board. About the Authors. Library and Information Science. Information Experience: Approaches to Theory and Practice. Copyright page.
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""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).".
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• Preface Acknowledgments Introduction What Drives Serendipity Research Approaches to Serendipity Facilitating Serendipity Methods and Measurement Conclusion and Framework Appendix A Appendix B Bibliography Author Biographies.
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Chance, luck, and good fortune are the usual go-to descriptors of serendipity, a phenomenon aptly often coupled with famous anecdotes of accidental discoveries in engineering and science in modern history such as penicillin, Teflon, and Post-it notes. Serendipity, however, is evident in many fields of research, in organizations, in everyday life-and there is more to it than luck implies. While the phenomenon is strongly associated with in person interactions with people, places, and things, most attention of late has focused on its preservation and facilitation within digital information environments. Serendipity's association with unexpected, positive user experiences and outcomes has spurred an interest in understanding both how current digital information environments support serendipity and how novel approaches may be developed to facilitate it. Research has sought to understand serendipity, how it is manifested in people's personality traits and behaviors, how it may be facilitated in digital information environments such as mobile applications, and its impacts on an individual, an organizational, and a wider level. Because serendipity is expressed and understood in different ways in different contexts, multiple methods have been used to study the phenomenon and evaluate digital information environments that may support it. This volume brings together different disciplinary perspectives and examines the motivations for studying serendipity, the various ways in which serendipity has been approached in the research, methodological approaches to build theory, and how it may be facilitated. Finally, a roadmap for serendipity research is drawn by integrating key points from this volume to produce a framework for the examination of serendipity in digital information environments.
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• Preface Information Architecture: Definitions and Scopes Information Architecture and Evolving Information Spaces IA and User-centered Design IA Research and Evaluation Information Organization and Navigation Design User Information Behavior and Design Implications Interaction Design Design Patterns, Emerging Principles, and Mobile Considerations IA in Practice The Future of IA Bibliography Author Biographies.
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Information Architecture is about organizing and simplifying information, designing and integrating information spaces/systems, and creating ways for people to find and interact with information content. Its goal is to help people understand and manage information and make the right decisions accordingly. This updated and revised edition of the book looks at integrated information spaces in the web context and beyond, with a focus on putting theories and principles into practice. In the ever-changing social, organizational, and technological contexts, information architects not only design individual information spaces (e.g., websites, software applications, and mobile devices), but also tackle strategic aggregation and integration of multiple information spaces across websites, channels, modalities, and platforms. Not only do they create predetermined navigation pathways, but they also provide tools and rules for people to organize information on their own and get connected with others. Information architects work with multi-disciplinary teams to determine the user experience strategy based on user needs and business goals, and make sure the strategy gets carried out by following the user-centered design (UCD) process via close collaboration with others. Drawing on the authors' extensive experience as HCI researchers, User Experience Design practitioners, and Information Architecture instructors, this book provides a balanced view of the IA discipline by applying theories, design principles, and guidelines to IA and UX practices. It also covers advanced topics such as iterative design, UX decision support, and global and mobile IA considerations. Major revisions include moving away from a web-centric view toward multi-channel, multi-device experiences. Concepts such as responsive design, emerging design principles, and user-centered methods such as Agile, Lean UX, and Design Thinking are discussed and related to IA processes and practices.
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• Introduction The Query Process and Barriers to Finding Information Online Online Search: An Evolution Search and Discovery Technologies: An Overview Information Access: A Spectrum of Needs and Uses Future Tense: The Next Era in Information Access and Discovery Answer Machines.
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The Answer Machine is a practical, non-technical guide to the technologies behind information seeking and analysis. It introduces search and content analytics to software buyers, knowledge managers, and searchers who want to understand and design effective online environments. The book describes how search evolved from an expert-only to an end user tool. It provides an overview of search engines, categorization and clustering, natural language processing, content analytics, and visualization technologies. Detailed profiles for Web search, eCommerce search, eDiscovery, and enterprise search contrast the types of users, uses, tasks, technologies, and interaction designs for each. These variables shape each application, although the underlying technologies are the same. Types of information tasks and the trade-offs between precision and recall, time, volume and precision, and privacy vs. personalization are discussed within this context. The book examines trends toward convenient, context-aware computing, big data and analytics technologies, conversational systems, and answer machines. The Answer Machine explores IBM Watson's DeepQA technology and describes how it is used to answer health care and Jeopardy questions. The book concludes by discussing the implications of these advances: how they will change the way we run our businesses, practice medicine, govern, or conduct our lives in the digital age.
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• Adolescents' digital worlds : an introduction
• Connecting online behaviour to adolescent development : a theoretical framework
• Sexuality on the internet : sexual exploration, cybersex, and pornography
• Constructing identity online : identity exploration and self-presentation
• Intimacy and the internet : relationships with friends, romantic partners, and family members
• Digital worlds and doing the right thing : morality, ethics, and civic engagement
• Internet use and well-being : physical and psychological effects
• Technology and health : using the internet for wellness and illness
• When is it too much? Excessive internet use and addictive behavior
• The darker side of the internet : violence, cyber bullying, and victimization
• Promoting positive and safe digital worlds : what parents and teachers can do to empower youth
• Adolescents' digital worlds : conclusions and future steps.

Youth around the world are fittingly described as digital natives because of their comfort and skill with technological hardware and content. Recent studies indicate that an overwhelming majority of children and teenagers use the Internet, cell phones, and other mobile devices. Equipped with familiarity and unprecedented access, it is no wonder that adolescents consume, create, and share copious amounts of content. But is there a cost?Digital Youth: The Role of Media in Development recognizes the important role of digital tools in the lives of teenagers and presents both the risks and benefits of these new interactive technologies. From social networking to instant messaging to text messaging, the authors create an informative and relevant guidebook that goes beyond description to include developmental theory and implications. Also woven throughout the book is an international sensitivity and understanding that clarifies how, despite the widespread popularity of digital communication, technology use varies between groups globally. Other specific topics addressed include:Sexuality on the Internet. Online identity and self-presentation. Morality, ethics, and civic engagement. Technology and health. Violence, cyberbullying, and victimization. Excessive Internet use and addictive behavior. This comprehensive volume is a must-have reference for researchers, clinicians, and graduate students across such disciplines as developmental/clinical child/school psychology, social psychology, media psychology, medical and allied health professions, education, and social work.