Information and Society

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 t...