14: Closing Keynote Address

Paul Duguid is adjunct professor in the School of Information at UC Berkeley and holds additional appointments at Queen Mary, University of London and Santa Clara University. In fall 2006, he will be co-teaching two courses in the School of Information at Berkeley, one on the quality of information and one on the history of information. The first explores his interests in questions of the authority, authenticity, and warranting of information. (He is also working in the not unrelated field of brand and trademark history.) The second explores the history of information technologies while addressing questions of technological determinism.

His interest in multidisciplinary, collaborative work has led him to work with social scientists, computer scientists, economists, linguists, management theorists, and social psychologists. His writing has appeared in a broad array of scholarly fields and journals including anthropology, business and business history, cognitive science, computer science, design, education, economic history, human-computer interaction, information science, management, organization theory, and wine history. Duguid has also written for a variety of less specialized publications, including the Times Literary Supplement, the Nation, and the Threepenny Review.