The Social Life of Documents; introduction by Esther Dyson

Authors

  • John Seely Brown
  • Paul Duguid

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5210/fm.v1i1.466

Keywords:

documents, document technology, document culture, document communities, document forms, CoNote, intercommunal documents, article

Abstract

Documents are evolving as means for structuring and navigating information space, and resources for constructing and negotiating social space.

Author Biographies

John Seely Brown

John Seely Brown jsb@parc.xerox.com is Chief Scientist of the Xerox Corporation and Director of the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center.

Paul Duguid

Paul Duguid duguid@garnet.berkeley.edu is a consultant at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center and at the University of California, Berkeley, where he is studying transnational traders in the 18th and 19th century. This NEH-funded historical study includes an investigation of the role of document technologies in the development of trade and commerce.

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Published

1996-05-06

How to Cite

Brown, J. S., & Duguid, P. (1996). The Social Life of Documents; introduction by Esther Dyson. First Monday, 1(1). https://doi.org/10.5210/fm.v1i1.466

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