For undergraduate/graduate-level courses in Information Architecture, Information Design, Interaction Design, User Experience Design, Social Informatics, Human-computer Interaction, Knowledge Management, Information Management, Web Design, Communications History, Telecommunications Infrastructure, and for survey courses in Information Science, Telecommunications, Computer Science, and Information and Communication.

This is the first text to explore the roots of the emerging Information Architecture profession. A true foundations text, it introduces students to key innovations in the history of communications systems and technologies leading to the Information Age; Information Age-related problems; information architecture practitioners, educators, and educational programs.