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The Social Life of Information

By - Brown, John Seely , Duguid, Paul
Floor - Floor 1
Published - Harvard Business School Press, Boston, ©2000
ISBN 10 - 0875847625
ISBN 13 - 9780875847627
Book Status - 1 Qnty Available with us.
Subject - Information technology--Social aspects , Information society
Shelf No - 13
Call Number - 303.4833 BRO
Physical Description - x, 320 pages ; 22 cm
Notes - Includes index.
Book Information
Offers an optimistic look at the future role of information technology in society, going beyond the simplicities of information and individuals. Explains how many of the tools, jobs, and organizations seemingly targeted for future extinction due to information technology in fact provide useful social resources that people will fight to keep. Brown is chief scientist at Xerox Corporation and director of the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center. Duguid is research specialist in social and cultural studies in education at the University of California-Berkeley. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

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