The social life of information

Social life refers to the context of the information. Easy to forget about this and its importance.

“Increasingly, we all live in a heavily designed worl and need to understand both the strenths and the limitations of the designs offered to us. In particular, we all need to be able to deal with the hye that accompanies new technological designs. In the digital world, moreover, manyof the distinctions between designers and users are becoming blurred. We are all, to some extent, designers now.” p 4

Information starved to overwhelmed. “Despite the cheers, howe4ver for many people famine has quickly turned to glut.” p 12

“The ends of information, after all, are human ends. The logic of information must ultimately be the logic of humanity. For all information's independence and extent, it is people, in their communities, organizations, and institutions, who ultimately decide what it all means and why it matters.” p 18

the myth of information p. 33. “In particular, the myth tends to wage a continual war against aspects of society that play a critical role in shaping not only society, but information itself, makin information useful and givbing it value and meaning.” . . . “to participate in that shaping and not merely to be shaped requirest understanding such social organization, not just counting on (or counting up) information.”