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The social life of information
- Title
- The social life of information / John Seely Brown and Paul Duguid.
- Author
- Brown, John Seely
- Publication
- Boston : Harvard Business School Press, ©2002.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Use in library | HM851 .B76 2002 | Off-site |
Details
- Additional Authors
- Duguid, Paul, 1954-
- Description
- xxvi, 330 p.; 21 cm.
- Summary
- Taking into account the way people really live, work and act, this book is about technology, society and the new economy. It is a major contribution to the debate over the implications of the new information technologies and their value to society.
- For years pundits have predicted that information technology will obliterate everything-from supermarkets to business organizations to social life itself. But beaten down by info-glut, exasperated by computer crashes, and daunted by the dot com crash, individual users find it hard to get a fix on the true potential of the digital revolution. John Seely Brown and Paul Duguid argue that the gap between digerati hype and end-user gloom is largely due to the "tunnel vision" that information-driven technologies breed. We've become so focused on where we think we ought to be-a place where technology empowers individuals and obliterates social organizations-that we often fail to see where we're really going. The Social Life of Information shows us how to look beyond our obsession with information and individuals to include the critical social networks of which these are always a part. -- Publisher description.
- Subject
- Information society
- Information technology > Social aspects
- Technology
- Culture
- Information technology
- Electronic data processing
- Technology
- Culture
- culture note
- information technology
- culture (concept)
- Information technology
- Electronic data processing
- Information society
- Information technology > Social aspects
- Gesellschaftsleben
- Informationsgesellschaft
- Informationstechnik
- Sozialer Wandel
- Informatiemaatschappij
- Informatietechnologie
- Sociaal-economische verandering
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 293-310) and index.
- Contents
- Preface: Looking Around -- Introduction: Tunneling Ahead -- 1. Limits to Information -- 2. Agents and Angels -- 3. Home Alone -- 4. Practice Makes Process -- 5. Learning -- in Theory and in Practice -- 6. Innovating Organization, Husbanding Knowledge -- 7. Reading the Background -- 8. Re-education -- Afterword: Beyond Information.
- ISBN
- 1578517087
- 9781578517084
- 0875847625
- 9780875847627
- LCCN
- 2002281841
- OCLC
- ocm48930605
- 48930605
- SCSB-8803946
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library