Information architecture : an emerging 21st century profession / Earl Morrogh.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 188-191) and index.

TOC Foreword, Richard Saul Wurman. I. INFORMATION ARCHITECTURE: AN INTRODUCTION. 1. Information Architecture: From Craft to Profession. II. HUMAN INTERACTIONS: THE EVOLUTION OF COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS. 2. Let's Talk About It: The Spoken Word. 3. Put It in Writing: The Written Word. 4. Hot Off the Press: The Printed Word. 5. Wired: The Electrical Telegraph. 6. Just Call Me: The Telephone. 7. Wireless: The Radio. 8. The Tube: Television. III. HUMAN AND COMPUTER INTERACTIONS: THE EVOLUTION OF COMPUTING SYSTEMS. 9. ENIAC: Computational Solutions for Scientific Problems. 10. ERMA: Computational Solutions for Business Problems. 11. The Alto: Computing Gets Personal. 12. The PC Evolution: From Mainframes to Minis to Micros. IV. COMPUTER NETWORKS: COMMUNICATION AND COMPUTING SYSTEMS CONVERGE. 13. Internauts: Architects of the Intergalactic Network. 14. ARPAnet: The Birth of the Internet. 15. Email: The First Killer "App." 16. WWW: The World Wide Web. V. INFO AILMENTS: UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES OF THE INFORMATION AGE. 17. Info Glut, Info Trash, Info Hype, and Info Stress. VI. TOWARD A NEW DISCIPLINE: INFORMATION ARCHITECTURE. 18. IA: The Process. 19. IA: The Practitioner. 20. IA: The Profession. 21. IA: Educating Information Architects. 22. IA: Education Theory, A Design Foundation for Information Architecture, by Keith Belton. 23. Information Architects: Envisioning the Future of IA. References. APPENDICES. A. "As We May Think,"Vannevar Bush. B. "Software Engineering Code of Ethics and Professional Practice," IEEE-CS/ACM Joint Task Force on Software Engineering Ethics and Professional Practices. Index.

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