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"Should be read by anyone interested in understanding the future," The Times Literary Supplement raved about the original edition of The Social Life of Information. We're now living in that future, and one of the seminal books of the Internet Age is more relevant than ever. The future was a place where technology was supposed to empower individuals and obliterate social organizations. Pundits predicted that information technology would obliterate the need for almost everything--from mass media to bureaucracies, universities, politics, and governments. Clearly, we are not living in that future. The Social Life of Information explains why. John Seely Brown and Paul Duguid show us how to look beyond mere information to the social context that creates and gives meaning to it. Arguing elegantly for the important role that human sociability plays, even--perhaps especially--in the digital world, The Social Life of Information gives us an optimistic look beyond the simplicities of information and individuals. It shows how a better understanding of the contribution that communities, organizations, and institutions make to learning, working, and innovating can lead to the richest possible use of technology in our work and everyday lives. With a new introduction by David Weinberger and reflections by the authors on developments since the book's first publication, this new edition is essential reading for anyone seeking to understand the human place in a digital world.--
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Subjects
current affairs, Operations, Logistics & Quality, information, Social aspects of Information technology, Social aspects, Information society, technology, Information technology, COMPUTERS, Information Science, Trends, Organization & admisitration, Automation, Sociology, Information Systems, Social ConditionsPeople
John Seely Brown, Paul DuguidPlaces
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The social life of information
2017, Harvard Business Review Press
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The Social Life of Information
2004, Harvard Business School Press
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2002, Harvard Business School Press
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The Social Life of Information
2000, Harvard Business School Press
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"Updated, with a new preface."
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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The Social Life of Information is a 2000 book by John Seely Brown (the former Chief Scientist of Xerox Corporation and director of Xerox PARC) and Paul Duguid (Adjunct professor at the UC Berkeley School of Information), which discusses recently developed practices in the transmission of information in social and business contexts.
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- The social life of information - Table of contents | Brown | First Monday
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- The Social Life of Information | Work Study | Vol 49, No 4
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