Living in the information age can occasionally feel like being driven by someone with tunnel vision.
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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.
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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, SociologyPeople
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Book Details
Table of Contents
Preface : Looking Around
Page ix
Acknowledgments
Page xxv
Introduction : Tunneling Ahead
Page 1
1.
Limits to Information
Page 11
2.
Agents and Angels
Page 35
3.
Home Alone
Page 63
4.
Practice Makes Process
Page 91
5.
Learning--in Theory and Practice
Page 117
6.
Innovating Organization, Husbanding Knowledge
Page 147
7.
Reading the Background
Page 173
8.
Re-education
Page 207
Afterword : Beyond Information
Page 243
Edition Notes
Includes bibliographical references (p. 293-310) 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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