Information 2.0, Second Edition: New Models of Information Production, Distribution and Consumption

Martin De Saulles

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978-1-78330-009-9

Published:

2015

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Facet Publishing, UK

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192

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Softcover

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About the Author
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This textbook provides an overview of the digital information landscape and explains the implications of the technological changes for the information industry, from publishers and broadcasters to the information professionals who manage information in all its forms.

Featuring examples of organizations and individuals who are seizing on the opportunities thrown up by this once-in-a-generation technological shift, this fully updated second edition provides a cutting-edge guide to where we are going both as information consumers and in terms of broader societal changes.

Each chapter explores aspects of the information lifecycle, including production, distribution, storage and consumption and contains case studies chosen to illustrate particular issues and challenges facing the information industry.

One of the key themes of the book is the way that organizations, public and commercial, are blurring their traditional lines of responsibility. Amazon is moving from simply selling books to offering the hardware and software for reading them. Apple still makes computer hardware but also manages one of the world's leading marketplaces for music and software applications. Google maintains its position as the most popular internet search engine but has also digitized millions of copies of books from leading academic libraries and backed the development of the world's most popular computing platform, Android. At the heart of these changes are the emergence of cheap computing devices for decoding and presenting digital information and a network which allows the bits and bytes to ﬂow freely, for the moment at least, from producer to consumer.

While the digital revolution is impacting on everyone who works with information, sometimes negatively, the second edition of Information 2.0 shows that the opportunities outweigh the risks for those who take the time to understand what is going on. Information has never been more abundant and accessible, so those who know how to manage it for the beneﬁt of others in the digital age will be in great demand.

1. Introduction

What is information?
The foundations of the information society
The internet as a driver of change
The big challenges of big data
What about the information providers?
New ways of creating information
Where do we put all this information?
Why information matters

2. New models of information production

Introduction
Blogs: the state of the blogosphere
Blogging 2.0
Who can you trust?
Blogs and social media as agents of change
Blogging for money
The economics of print media
The transition to digital news
Digital-only news publishers
The new generation of news consumers
Business publishing
Wikis and collaborative publishing
Search engines and what they know
Gaming Google
Does Google know too much?
Our social graphs
What are we worth?
The challenge of big data
Data types
When everything is connected
Data as the new currency
Concluding comments

3. New models of information storage

Introduction
Preserving the internet
How organizations store information
Academia
Data mining
Collection digitization
Keeping it all safe
Storage at the personal level
Putting it in the cloud
Our digital footprints
The future of storage
Concluding comments

4. New models of information distribution

Introduction
The architecture of the internet
Distribution and disintermediation
The new intermediaries
Intermediaries in the shadows
Copyright-friendly intermediaries
Online video – we are all celebrities now
The video classroom
Open government and the internet
Proactive government
Defensive government
Offensive government
Helping the information flow both ways
Making money from public information
Threats to the open web
Concluding comments

5. New models of information consumption

Introduction
Information consumption devices
Mobile consumption devices
Looking beyond the artefact
It is all about the apps
Information ecosystems: gilded cages or innovation hotbeds?
Returning to an open web
HTML5 – an antidote to appification?
The experiential web
Rent or buy?
Making sense of it all
Information literacy
Information overload
Implications for information professionals
Concluding comments

6. Conclusion

Introduction
The struggle for control in a networked world
Implications for information professionals
The knowledge management opportunity
The future of search
Ninja librarians
Implications for publishers
The copyright challenge
Hooked on tablets

Martin De Saulles

Martin De Saulles is a Principal Lecturer in digital marketing at the University of Brighton, UK. He has worked in the information and technology fields for 20 years as a researcher, analyst, entrepreneur, writer, and academic.

"...an informative and thorough title that makes sense of how changes in technology are impacting all aspects of society; economics, education and more. It is even-handed throughout; there are arguments made about the democratizing influence of the Internet and how barriers that might have constrained our access to information have been reduced. Yet there are still cautionary tales. The likes of Amazon, Apple, Google and Facebook, which aimed to make information via the Internet accessible to us all, are the now the new monopolies and there are significant issues about how they use our information. Although we live in an era of information overload and that information seems difficult to control or keep on top of, de Saulles reiterates the need of the information professional and that its role is equally vital in the ‘Wild West' free-for-all new information landscape. This is a title that is very readable and clear. De Saulles uses case studies to outline his points and does not veer into jargon that might leave the casual reader to engage in head-scratching. Information 2.0 is just as valuable for the casual reader as for the information professional and it clarifies what otherwise is a very confusing picture."
— Ariadne

"Martin De Saulles provides a concise, yet relatively wide-ranging, overview of the enduring issues and current crises in information and communication technologies (ICT) in Information 2.0: New Models of Information Production, Distribution and Consumption. Keenly aware of the rapidly shifting landscape of ICT, his book examines the diverse types of information created and consumed today; the role of data in society, from personal uses to mass governmental and business initiatives; the history of information technology over the past half century; and the exponentially expanding networks of corporate and governmental actors that control the access and management of ICT."
— Digital Scholarship in the Humanities

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