TY - JOUR AU - Nardi, Bonnie AU - O'Day, Vicki PY - 1999/05/03 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - Information Ecologies: Using Technology with Heart - Preface JF - First Monday JA - FM VL - 4 IS - 5 SE - DO - 10.5210/fm.v4i5.669 UR - https://firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/669 SP - AB - The common rhetoric about technology falls into two extreme categories: uncritical acceptance or blanket rejection. These two positions leave us with poor choices for action. They encourage us to accept as inevitable whatever technological changes come along. Claiming a middle ground, these chapters from the book Information Ecologies (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1999) call for responsible, informed engagement with technology in local settings, or information ecologies. An information ecology is a system of people, practices, technologies, and values in a local environment. Like their biological counterparts, information ecologies are diverse, continually evolving, and complex. ER -