Marketing Information Management: Exploring the Edges of the Information Age examines the growing role of information, technology, and digital communication in modern marketing and business. The text introduces students to the concepts of information management, organizational information systems, consumer information processing, and the technologies that support decision-making in today's information-driven economy. It also explores how businesses create value through data, knowledge management, digital marketing, search engines, and online participation while highlighting the importance of information literacy in a rapidly evolving technological landscape.
Designed for students of marketing, business, and information management, this book combines foundational theory with practical applications to help readers understand the opportunities and challenges of the Information Age. Topics such as ethics, privacy, cybersecurity, intellectual property, globalization, and digital governance prepare students to think critically about the responsible use of information in both organizational and global contexts. By integrating marketing principles with emerging technologies, the text equips students with the knowledge needed to succeed in today's data-driven business environment.
Chapter 1: Welcome to the Information Age
Chapter 2: Information & the Organization
Chapter 3: Information Technology & Information Systems
Chapter 4: Information Fluencies
Chapter 5: Consumers and Information
Chapter 6: The Information Paradigm
Chapter 7: Marketing Management in the Information Age
Chapter 8: Ethics for the Information Age
Chapter 9: Privacy and Security
Chapter 10: Property and Governance in the Information Age
Chapter 11: Participation
Chapter 12: Global Information Management
Epilogue
Postscript
Nicole
McCallum
Nicole McCallum is a sessional lecturer at the University of Guelph, co- founder and co- director of Green Rocket (www.greenrocket.ca). Nicole became hooked on the potential of information and the systems that manage it in 2008 while working in the digital media scene in Amsterdam, and has never looked back. A SSHRC scholar, she studied information from a behavioural economics perspective, researching how information and information technology could cre
ate incentives for collaboration within community projects. Nowadays, she keeps up with her passion through teaching
and as a social entrepreneur. Currently on a big data 1 community initiative, she eats, breathes, and lives information mangement daily.