Wednesday, November 30, 2005

the social life of information

Hilary> the preface>mythical silent scream.

Nardi and O’Day posit a new term—ecology—to provide new ways of thinking about the social life of information in “computerized technology contexts” (cite Johnson). Specifically, the ecological metaphor suggests that “tools, people and their practices” are inextricably intertwined and bound to local contexts: information ecologies are diverse, complex and continuously evolving “systems”(p. 51) of god HELP me,I just had a brief citational encounter with the letter F.

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