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  • Paperback: 245 pages
  • Publisher: MIT Press; New edition edition (18 Mar 2003)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 026269283X
  • ISBN-13: 978-0262692830
  • Product Dimensions: 22.6 x 15.2 x 1.5 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
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"The case for paper is made most eloquently in The Myth of the Paperless Office... by two social scientists, Abigail Sellen and Richard Harper." - Malcolm Gladwell, New Yorker "The authors approach their subject with academic rigour, observing real organisations to find out how people like to work." - Financial Times

The Guardian, 26 November, 2001
If you wish to read anything at all on office management, read this book. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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4.0 out of 5 stars The paperless office will never come, 31 Aug 2003
By Jan Erik Frantsvåg "janeriks" (Tromsø, Norway) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Myth of the Paperless Office (Hardcover)
In this slim volume Sellen and Harper analyses what functions paper have in modern offices, and how digital media functions differently from paper - making paper a useful tool if it's properties are understood properly. They rely heavily on the concept of "affordance", meaning that the physical properties of an object gives it functional qualities that offers different opportunities in different situations.

An important book giving me - at least - new insights into how paper can collaborate with other media to make the office function better.

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4.0 out of 5 stars The paperless office will never come, 31 Aug 2003
By Jan Erik Frantsvåg "janeriks" (Tromsø, Norway) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Myth of the Paperless Office (Hardcover)
In this slim volume Sellen and Harper analyses what functions paper have in modern offices, and how digital media functions differently from paper - making paper a useful tool if it's properties are understood properly. They rely heavily on the concept of "affordance", meaning that the physical properties of an object gives it functional qualities that offers different opportunities in different situations.

An important book giving me - at least - new insights into how paper can collaborate with other media to make the office function better.

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4.0 out of 5 stars The paperless office will never come, 31 Aug 2003
By Jan Erik Frantsvåg "janeriks" (Tromsø, Norway) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Myth of the Paperless Office (Hardcover)
In this slim volume Sellen and Harper analyses what functions paper have in modern offices, and how digital media functions differently from paper - making paper a useful tool if it's properties are understood properly. They rely heavily on the concept of "affordance", meaning that the physical properties of an object gives it functional qualities that offers different opportunities in different situations.

An important book giving me - at least - new insights into how paper can collaborate with other media to make the office function better.

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