Digital Consumers: Re-shaping the Information Profession (Facet Publications (All Titles as Published)) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1856046516 ISBN 13: 9781856046510

Publisher: Facet Publishing, 2008

Synopsis

The information professions - librarianship, archives, publishing and, to some extent, journalism - have been rocked by the digital transition that has led to disintermediation, easy access and massive information choice. Professional skills are increasingly being performed without the necessary context, rationale and understanding. Information now forms a consumer commodity with many diverse information producers engaged in the market. It is generally the lack of recognition of this fact amongst the information professions that explains the difficulties they find themselves in.

There is a need for a new belief system that will help information professionals survive and engage in a ubiquitous information environment, where they are no longer the dominant players, nor, indeed, the suppliers of first choice. The purpose of this thought-provoking book is to provide that overarching vision, built on hard evidence rather than PowerPoint 'puff'.

The authors of the acclaimed CIBER Google Generation study, and an international, cross-sectoral team of contributors has assembled together for this purpose. Key strategic areas covered include:

the digital consumer: an introduction and philosophy

the digital information marketplace and its economics: the end of exclusivity

the e-shopper: the growth of the informed purchaser

the library in the digital age

the psychology of the digital information consumer

the information-seeking behaviour of the digital consumer: case study - the virtual scholar

the Google generation: myths and realities about young people's digital information behaviour

trends in digital information consumption and the future

where do we go from here?

Readership

: No information professional or student can afford not to read this far-reaching and important book.

About this title

About the Author

David Nicholas

Edition details

• Publisher: Facet Publishing
• Publication date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1856046516
• ISBN 13: 9781856046510
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 240
• Editor: Nicholas David