Main entry:

Brown, John Seely.

Title & Author:

The social life of information / John Seely Brown and Paul Duguid.

Publication:

Description:

x, 320 pages ; 22 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-305) and index.
Introduction: Tunneling ahead -- Limits to information -- Agents and angels -- Home alone -- Practice makes process -- Learning -- in theory and in practice -- Innovating organization, husbanding knowledge -- Reading the background -- Re-education -- Afterword: Beyond information.
Dust jacket.

Summary:

"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." "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."--Jacket.

Resources:
Table of contents

ISBN:

0875847625 (alk. paper)
9780875847627 (alk. paper)

Subject:

Information society.
Information technology Social aspects.
Social ecology.
Information Storage and Retrieval
Social Environment
Société de l'information.
Technologie de l'information Aspect social.
Écologie sociale.
human ecology.
Informatiemaatschappij.
Informatietechnologie.
Sociaal-economische verandering.
information.
information industry.
information technology.
communication.
social implication.
computer programme.
information processing.
information service.
e-mail.
telework.
work at home.
social network.
human relations.
organization development.
work organization.
workplace communication.
knowhow.
learning.
distance study.
group work.
innovation.
industrial district.
Internet.
electronic network.
community.
higher education.
Tecnologia da informação (aspectos sociais)
Sociedade da informação.
industrie de l'information.
technologie de l'information.
conséquences sociales.
logiciel.
traitement de l'information.
service d'information.
courrier électronique.
télétravail.
travail à domicile.
réseau social.
relations humaines.
développement de l'organisation.
organisation du travail.
communication au niveau du travail.
savoir-faire.
acquisition de connaissances.
enseignement à distance.
travail en groupe.
parc industriel.
réseau électronique.
communauté
enseignement supérieur.
información.
industria de la información.
tecnología de la información.
comunicación.
consecuencias sociales.
programa de computación.
procesamiento de la información.
servicio de información.
correo electrónico.
teletrabajo.
trabajo a domicilio.
red social.
relaciones humanas.
desarrollo de la organización.
organización del trabajo.
comunicación en el trabajo.
conocimiento técnico.
adquisición de conocimientos.
educación a distancia.
trabajo en grupo.
innovación.
distrito industrial.
red electrónica.
comunidad.
enseñanza superior.
USA.
Etats-Unis.
Estados Unidos.

Form/genre:

illustration.
ilustración.

Added entries:

Duguid, Paul, 1954-

Holdings:

Location: Library main 279957
Call No.: BIB 216273
Status: Available