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Deciding Where to Live: Information Studies on Where to Live in
America explores major themes related to where to live in America,
not only about the acquisition of a home but also the ways in which
where one lives relates to one's cultural identity. It shows how
changes in media and information technology are shaping both our
housing choices and our understanding of the meaning of personal
place. The work is written using widely accessible language but
supported by a strong academic foundation from information studies
and other humanities and social science disciplines. Chapters
analyze everyday information behavior related to questions about
where to live. The eleven major chapters are: Chapter 1: Where to
live as an information problem: three contemporary examples Chapter
2: Turning in place: Real estate agents and the move from
information custodians to information brokers Chapter 3: The
Evolving Residential Real Estate Information Ecosystem: The Rise of
Zillow Chapter 4: Privacy, Surveillance, and the "Smart Home"
Chapter 5: This Old House, Fixer Upper, and Better Homes &
Gardens: The Housing Crisis and Media Sources Chapter 6: A
Community Responds to Growth: An Information Story About What Makes
for a Good Place to Live." Chapter 7: The Valley Between Us: The
meta-hodology of racial segregation in Milwaukee, Wisconsin Chapter
8: Modeling Hope: Boundary Objects and Design Patterns in a
Heartland Heterotopia Chapter 9: Home buying in Everyday Life: How
Emotion and Time Pressure Shape High Stakes Deciders' Information
Behavior Chapter 10: In Search of Home: Examining Information
Seeking and Sources That Help African Americans Determine Where to
Live Chapter 11: Where to Live in Retirement: A Complex Information
Problem While the book is partly about the goal-directed activity
of individuals who want to buy a house, and the infrastructure that
supports that activity, it is also about personal activities that
are either not goal directed or are directed at other goals such as
deciding in which geographic location to live, personal
entertainment, cultural understanding, or identity formation.
This book examines food in the United States in the age of the
Internet. One major theme running through the book isbusiness
opportunities and failures, as well as the harms to consumers and
traditional brick-and-mortar companies that occurred as
entrepreneurs tried to take advantage of the Internet to create
online companies related to food. The other major theme is the
concept of trust online and different models used by different
companies to make their web presence seem trustworthy. The book
describes a number of major food companies, including AllRecipes,
Betty Crocker, Cook's Illustrated, Epicurious, Groupon, OpenTable,
and Yelp. The book draws on business history, food studies, and
information studies for its approach. "
Formal approaches are those taken by government bodies through
laws, court decisions and actions of government regulatory bodies.
Informal approaches are those taken by individuals, non profit
organizations, industries working at self-regulation, etc. Because
the formal means are tied to a particular legal system, this kind
of approach is nation-specific and the book focuses on the United
States. But many of the things the authors have to say about US
food policy and the interactions between formal and informal
approaches would also be of interest to policymakers and food
industry professionals in other countries. Coverage includes the
regulation of food advertising on children's television and the
internet, regulation of school lunch programsand the influence of
Eleanor Roosevelt and Michelle Obama."
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