Between Communication and Information.

Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Introduction -- PART I: Theories -- 1. Communication and Information -- 2. A History of Information Theory in Communication Research -- 3. The Impact of a Native Theory of Information on Two Privileged Accounts of Personhood -- 4. Measurement of Information and Communication: A Set of Definitions -- 5. Deconstructing Information -- 6. A Foucauldian Perspective of the Relationship between Communication and Information -- 7. Information Theory and Telecommunications: A Review -- PART II: Disciplinary Connections -- 8. An Etymological Exploration of the Links between Information and Communication -- 9. Context and Content of Citations between Communication and Library and Information Science Articles -- 10. Integrating Concepts for the Information Age: Communication, Information, Mediation and Institutions -- PART III: Individual and Social Context -- 11. Interrelationships between Information-Seeking Skills, Information-Seeking Behavior, and the Usage of Information Sources -- 12. Reducing Errors in Health-Related Memory: Progress and Prospects -- 13. Children's Interest in Computers: A Social Cognitive Perspective -- 14. Patient-Practitioner Information Exchange as an Asymmetrical Social Encounter: Do Patients Actually Know What Their Practitioners Think They Know? -- 15. Judgment Model Overlap and Decision-making Group Processes -- 16. Designing Groupware for Implementation -- 17. News Story Generation with Hard Copy and Magnetic Media Information Sources: The Impact of Information Technology -- 18. Communication, Information, and Surveillance: Separation and Control in Organizations -- PART IV: Societal Contexts -- 19. On the Prospects for Redefining Universal Service: From Connectivity to Content.

20. Transaction-Generated Information (TGI): Signaling, Sorting, and the Communication of Self -- 21. Media Development and Public Space: The Legislating of Social Interaction -- 22. The Politics of Information: A Study of the French Minitel System -- 23. Information, Information Society, and Some Marxian Propositions. Uniting Two Papers: Information as a Meta- economic Quantity and Some Marxian Propositions on the Path toward an Information Society -- Contributors -- Index of Names -- Subject Index.

The current popularity of such phrases as "information age" and 'information society" suggests thatlinks between information,communication, and: behavior have become closer and more complex in a technology-dominated culture.

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