The Social Life of Information
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The Social Life of Information is an influential book by John Seely Brown and Paul Duguid that explores how social and organizational contexts shape the way information is created, shared, and used in the digital age.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Social Life of Information canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8195437 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Social Life of Information Context triple: [John Seely Brown, notableWork, The Social Life of Information]
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A.
Essays of an Information Scientist
Essays of an Information Scientist is a multi-volume collection of influential articles by Eugene Garfield that helped shape the fields of bibliometrics, citation analysis, and the evaluation of scientific literature.
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B.
The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood
The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood is a nonfiction book by James Gleick that explores the development of information theory and its profound impact on science, technology, and culture.
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C.
Information Doesn’t Want to Be Free
"Information Doesn’t Want to Be Free" is a nonfiction book by Cory Doctorow that critiques modern copyright and digital rights regimes while advocating for open culture and user freedoms in the digital age.
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D.
Power in the Global Information Age
"Power in the Global Information Age" is a book by political scientist Joseph S. Nye Jr. that analyzes how information technologies are transforming the nature and distribution of power in international relations.
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E.
Blown to Bits: Your Life, Liberty, and Happiness After the Digital Explosion
"Blown to Bits: Your Life, Liberty, and Happiness After the Digital Explosion" is a non-fiction book that explores how the digital revolution transforms privacy, security, freedom, and everyday life in the information age.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Social Life of Information Target entity description: The Social Life of Information is an influential book by John Seely Brown and Paul Duguid that explores how social and organizational contexts shape the way information is created, shared, and used in the digital age.
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A.
Essays of an Information Scientist
Essays of an Information Scientist is a multi-volume collection of influential articles by Eugene Garfield that helped shape the fields of bibliometrics, citation analysis, and the evaluation of scientific literature.
-
B.
The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood
The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood is a nonfiction book by James Gleick that explores the development of information theory and its profound impact on science, technology, and culture.
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C.
Information Doesn’t Want to Be Free
"Information Doesn’t Want to Be Free" is a nonfiction book by Cory Doctorow that critiques modern copyright and digital rights regimes while advocating for open culture and user freedoms in the digital age.
-
D.
Power in the Global Information Age
"Power in the Global Information Age" is a book by political scientist Joseph S. Nye Jr. that analyzes how information technologies are transforming the nature and distribution of power in international relations.
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E.
Blown to Bits: Your Life, Liberty, and Happiness After the Digital Explosion
"Blown to Bits: Your Life, Liberty, and Happiness After the Digital Explosion" is a non-fiction book that explores how the digital revolution transforms privacy, security, freedom, and everyday life in the information age.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | book ⓘ |
| argues |
communities of practice are central to knowledge sharing
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informal networks in organizations are crucial for information flow ⓘ information must be understood in its social and organizational context ⓘ technology alone cannot determine how information is used ⓘ |
| author |
John Seely Brown
NERFINISHED
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Paul Duguid NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| critiques |
assumptions that digital information will automatically replace institutions
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overly optimistic views of the information age ⓘ technological determinism ⓘ |
| focusesOn |
limitations of purely technical views of information
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organizational context of information ⓘ social context of information ⓘ |
| genre | non-fiction ⓘ |
| hasEdition |
2000 first edition
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revised edition ⓘ |
| hasFormat |
digital
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print ⓘ |
| influencedField |
information systems
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knowledge management research ⓘ library and information science ⓘ organizational learning ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| notableFor |
critique of simplistic digital utopianism
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emphasis on social dimensions of information ⓘ integration of theory and organizational case examples ⓘ |
| proposesConcept |
communities of practice
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social life of information ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 2000 ⓘ |
| publisher | Harvard Business School Press NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| subject |
digital culture
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information society ⓘ information technology ⓘ innovation ⓘ knowledge management ⓘ knowledge sharing ⓘ learning organizations ⓘ organizational change ⓘ organizational studies ⓘ social aspects of information ⓘ workplace collaboration ⓘ |
| targetAudience |
academics
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business leaders ⓘ policy makers ⓘ technology professionals ⓘ |
| timePeriodDiscussed |
digital age
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information age ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: The Social Life of Information Description of subject: The Social Life of Information is an influential book by John Seely Brown and Paul Duguid that explores how social and organizational contexts shape the way information is created, shared, and used in the digital age.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.