The Social Life of Information
By: John Seely Brown and Paul Duguid.
Contributors: Duguid, Paul, 1954-
Edition: 4th printing
Publisher: Harvard Business School Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Boston, USA
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 330
ISBN-13: 9781578517084
Copyright date: 2002
Subjects: Information society; Information technology -- Social aspects
Description: 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.
(back cover)
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 293-310) and index.
Table of contents: title: Preface : Looking Around
pagenum: ix; title: Acknowledgments
pagenum: xxv; title: Introduction : Tunneling Ahead
pagenum: 1; label: 1
title: Limits to Information
pagenum: 11; label: 2
title: Agents and Angels
pagenum: 35; label: 3
title: Home Alone
pagenum: 63; label: 4
title: Practice Makes Process
pagenum: 91; label: 5
title: Learning--in Theory and Practice
pagenum: 117; label: 6
title: Innovating Organization, Husbanding Knowledge
pagenum: 147; label: 7
title: Reading the Background
pagenum: 173; label: 8
title: Re-education
pagenum: 207; title: Afterword : Beyond Information
pagenum: 243