@article{Nardi_O’Day_1999, title={Information Ecologies: Using Technology with Heart - Preface}, volume={4}, url={https://firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/669}, DOI={10.5210/fm.v4i5.669}, abstractNote={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.}, number={5}, journal={First Monday}, author={Nardi, Bonnie and O’Day, Vicki}, year={1999}, month={May} }