Paul Duguid

Adjunct Professor

duguid@ischool.berkeley.edu

305B South Hall

Weds 10:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. (by appointment)

ischool.berkeley.edu/~duguid

Focus

The concept of information; the history of information; the history of trademarks and their informational role; critical information studies.

Research areas

Social & Cultural Studies

Biography

Current Research

Information and authenticity. From a historical perspective: how we come to trust information we encounter and how we led credibility to information we share and what role brands and other forms of certification play.

Other Research

I am currently working with Profs. Anthony Grafton (Princeton), Ann Blair (Harvard), and Anja Goeing (Zurich) on A Companion to the History of Information, to be published by Princeton University Press, and with Dean Carla Hesse and Prof. William Hanks (Berkeley) on a series of monographs sponsored by Berkeley's Social Science Matrix and to be published by the University of California Press.