The Social Life of Information by John Seely Brown
Published 2000 · 89,375 words · about 7 hours at an average pace
How hard is The Social Life of Information to read?
The Social Life of Information scores 58 out of 100 for difficulty on ReadingRate, making it quite demanding. The score is a weighted composite of nine measures: four of how hard the prose is to parse, five of how hard the meaning is to extract.
- Vocabulary: 62 out of 100
- Information-science and organisational vocabulary.
- Sentence structure: 60 out of 100
- Clear, well-organised sentences.
- Abstraction: 70 out of 100
- A conceptual argument about what information is not.
- Information density: 68 out of 100
- Dense with cases and theory.
How The Social Life of Information is regarded
The Social Life of Information holds a literary regard score of 54 out of 100, weighing its place in the canon, its critical reception, its influence on other writers, and the standing of its author. Regard is measured separately from difficulty: a demanding book is not necessarily an admired one.