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The Social Life of Information
by Paul Duguid ; John Seely Brown
ISBN: 0875847625
ISBN-13: 9780875847627
Format: Hardcover
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Summary
This scholarly work surveys the social impact of the recent shift to an information-based economy. The authors encourage readers to holistically evaluate this seemingly endless stream of information by recognizing and appreciating the value and cultural significance of the communication itself.
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"[This book] Dumpster-dives into the muck of failed predictions to show why the future isn't so likely to just let go of the past. In a measured series of eight essays, authors John Seely Brown, Xerox's chief scientist and director of the company's legendary research facility Xerox PARC, and Paul Duguid, a historical and social theorist at the University of California at Berkeley, gently deflate the most extreme claims of 'the blinkered euphoria of the infoenthusiasts,' as they term technology boosters....[I]t manages to puncture much of the hype around where technology is taking us, without making any bold pronouncements about the death of punditry." -- Katharine Mieszkowski
-- Salon
"THE SOCIAL LIFE OF INFORMATION is a timely, well-informed and very interesting attempt to explain how ICT and the infosphere should develop….It is a circumstantial and constructive reminder of the importance of all the semantic and social constraints that we need to respect in order to build a better infosphere. It should be read by anyone interested in understanding the future." -- Luciano Floridi
-- Times Literary Supplement
"The authors different specialities make them interesting tour guides. Brown is chief scientist at Xerox and director of its Palo Alto Research Center. Duguid is a history professor at the University of California at Berkeley and a social theorist affiliated with PARC....The authors' examples of how knowledge and learning is created informally in corporations...merit the price of admission." -- John Fraim
-- Industry Standard
"[This book's] emphasis on the importance of organizational learning and tacit knowledge suggests that to a degree no one has yet appreciated, the history of information is an institutional history, rather than an intellectual one: It needs to be told at the level of libraries and archives, businesses and publishers, universities and corporate research labs....As Brown and Duguid show, seeing the present clearly is far harder, and far more rewarding, than making grand pronouncements about it." -- Alex Soojung-kim Pang
-- Los Angeles Times
Bibliographic Details
Publisher: Perseus Distribution Services
Published date: 2000
Size: 6 x 9 inches
Weight: 1.2 pounds
Pages: 256
Publisher's Notes
Argues that the technology of the information age cannot replace the social resources and networks that make learning, working, and innovating possible.
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Harvard Business School Press,, 2000. Hardcover. Very Good. Clean, tight book. Unclipped dust jacket. GPN Book Club edition. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Afterword: Beyond Information. 336pp. From the chief scientist of Xerox Corporation and a research specialist in cultural studies at UC-Berkeley comes a treatise that casts a critical eye at all the hype surrounding the boom of the information age. The authors' central complaint is that narrowly focusing on new ways to provide information will not create the cyber-revolution so many technology designers have visualized. ( more information)
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MA: Harvard Business School Press. Fine in Fine dust jacket 2000. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 320 pages; Fine/Fine. Boards are straight, tips are pointed, spine is square and pages are clean. DJ is great! In protective sleeve. An excellent gift! The authors of this book help us to see through frenzied visions of the future to the real forces for change in society. They argue that the gap between digerati hype and end user gloom is usuall due to the tunnel vision that information driven technologies breed. The way forward is paradoxically to look not ahead, but to look around... . ( more information)
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Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A.: Harvard Business School Pr, 2000 "We need, they argue, to look beyond our obsession with information and individuals to include the critical social networks of which these are always a part. ... They explain how many of the tools, jobs, and organizations seemingly targeted for future extinction in fact provide useful social resources that people will fight to keep.". 1st Edition. Blue Cloth. Fine/Fine Dj. Duodecimo. ( more information)
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Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A.: Harvard Business School Pr, 2000. This 5.5 x 8.5 hard cover book has the author's names and title in black lettering on the yellow and white dust jacket spine and cover. This book punctures old information revolution myths and breaks important new ground. It will transform the way you think about information and its role in shaping both business and society at large. 320 pages. Clean with tight binding in Fine/Fine condition. DAILY INVOICED PROCESSING, QUICK RESPONDING DEALER.. 3rd Printing. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. ( more information)
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Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A.: Harvard Business School Press, 2000 317 pages incl index. "From the chief scientist of Xerox Corporation and a research specialist in cultural studies at UC-Berkeley comes a treatise that casts a critical eye at all the hype surrounding the boom of the information age. The authors' central complaint is that narrowly focusing on new ways to provide information will not create the cyber-revolution so many technology designers have visualized. ". Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. ( more information)
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Harvard Business School Press. Hardcover. 0875847625 Excellent hardback in dust jacket, LIKE NEW condition, *SIGNED* by author John Seely Brown with "Best Wishes" on first blank page, no other marks or writing in book, looks new, jacket corner clipped. For years pundits have predicted that information technology will obliterate the need for almost everything-from travel to supermarkets to business organizations to social life itself. Individual users, however, tend to be more skeptical. Beaten down by info-glut and exasperated by computer systems fraught with software crashes, viruses, and unintelligible error messages, they find it hard to get a fix on the true potential of the digital revolution. John Seely Brown and Paul Duguid help us to see through frenzied visions of the future to the real forces for change in society. They 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 and what's helping us get there. We need, they argue, to look beyond our obsession with information and individuals to include the critical social networks of which these are always a part. Drawing from rich learning experiences at Xerox PARC, from examples such as IBM, Chiat/Day Advertising, and California's "Virtual University," and from historical, social, and cultural research, the authors sharply challenge the futurists' sweeping predictions. They explain how many of the tools, jobs, and organizations seemingly targeted for future extinction in fact provide useful social resources that people will fight to keep. Rather than aiming technological bullets at these "relics," we should instead look for ways that the new world of bits can learn from and complement them. Arguing elegantly for the important role that human sociability plays, even-perhaps especially-in the world of bits, 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. . Fine. ( more information)
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