Deciding Where to Live

William Aspray is professor of information science and adjunct professor of media studies at the University of Colorado Boulder. He has formally taught at Harvard, Indiana (Bloomington), Penn, Rutgers (New Brunswick), Texas (Austin), Virginia Tech, and Williams. He has also served in senior management positions at the Charles Babbage Institute, Computing Research Association, and the IEEE History Center. He served as the editor in chief of Information & Culture: A Journal of History. His books in the information studies area include: Fake News Nation (with James Cortada, Rowman & Littlefield), From Urban Legends to Political Fact-checking (with James Cortada, Springer), Food in the Internet Age (with Melissa Ocepek and George Royer, Springer), Everyday Information (ed., with Barbara Hayes, MIT Press), Digital Media (ed., with Megan Winget, Scarecrow), and Privacy in America (ed., with Philip Doty, Scarecrow). Melissa G. Ocepek is an Assistant Professor at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign in the School of Information Sciences. Her research draws on ethnographic methods and institutional ethnography to explore how individuals use information in their everyday lives. Her research interests include everyday information behavior, critical theory, and food. Dr. Ocepek has published two books that address the intersection of food, information, and culture: Food in the Internet Age and Formal and Informal Approaches to Food Policy (both with William Aspray and George Royer). Dr. Ocepek received her Ph.D. at the University of Texas at Austin in the School of Information.

Emphasizing the crucial role of information and information science in vital decisions about "where to live," this complex, well-researched, multifaceted, multi-authored volume provides an exhaustive perspective on the economic and technical aspects of the real estate industry and its historical, demographic, and social-psychological influence. Contributing authors are accomplished researchers and professors specializing in information science at major universities in five states: Colorado, Illinois, Minnesota, New York, and Texas…. Offering much more than a compendium of real estate facts and figures, this edited volume is a unique contribution to the field. The book will be useful to general readers searching for new homes and to real estate specialists and interested academics, including instructors and students.Recommended. All readers.

• Preface Chapter 1: Where to live as an information problem: three contemporary examples - William Aspray and Melissa G. OcepekChapter 2: Turning in place: Real estate agents and the move from information custodians to information brokers – Steve SawyerChapter 3: The Evolving Residential Real Estate Information Ecosystem: The Rise of Zillow - James W. CortadaChapter 4: Privacy, Surveillance, and the “Smart Home” - Philip DotyChapter 5: This Old House, Fixer Upper, and Better Homes & Gardens: The Housing Crisis and Media Sources - Melissa G. OcepekChapter 6: A Community Responds to Growth: An Information Story About What Makes for a Good Place to Live." - Hannah Weber, Vaughan Nagy, Janghee Cho, and William AsprayChapter 7: The Valley Between Us: The meta-hodology of racial segregation in Milwaukee, Wisconsin - Judith PintarChapter 8: Modeling Hope: Boundary Objects and Design Patterns in a Heartland Heterotopia- David HoppingChapter 9: Home buying in Everyday Life: How Emotion and Time Pressure Shape High Stakes Deciders’ Information Behavior - Carol F. LandryChapter 10: In Search of Home: Examining Information Seeking and Sources That Help African Americans Determine Where to Live - Jamillah R. GabrielChapter 11: Where to Live in Retirement: A Complex Information Problem- William AsprayChapter 12: Closing StatementAbout the Editors and Contributors