Paul Duguid
Autor de The Social Life of Information
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- historian
social theorist
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- University of California, Berkeley
Institute for Research on Learning
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The Social Life of Information por John Seely Brown
Good stories of how Xerox repair people actually did their work, involving gossip after hours and idle chit-chat.
This book touches on many aspects of information and knowledge in organisations and education that we covered as part of my Information Management degree so I'm actually surprised I never came to read it then. Despite being published in the late 1990s, it still feels relevant— in some aspects things haven't really changed much after fifteen years of technological advances.
This book is one the most referenced books today when it comes to the future of the information society. The authors present an understanding of the new digital technology and of information that is based on the notion of the social networks. Information can not be seen as free from their social networks. The authors’ claim, that information has a »social life«, changes the preconditions for how we should develop new information technology. The book will help anyone involved in the world of information to reflect on the role and nature of information and technology.… (más)
Even though this book is written before the big web 2.0 boost, the book is still a must for every new media professional interested in developing information technology for social purposes.
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