Social informatics: A rubric with an identity crisis?

✍ Scribed by Blaise Cronin; David Blair; Ron Day; Elisabeth Davenport; Kristin Eschenfelder

• Book ID: 102506275
• Publisher: Wiley (John Wiley & Sons)
• Year: 2005
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 85 KB
• Volume: 41
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0044-7870
• DOI: 10.1002/meet.1450410165

✦ Synopsis

Abstract

“A serviceable working conception of social informatics is that it identifies a body of research that examines the social aspects of computerization. A more formal definition is “the interdisciplinary study of the design, uses and consequences of information technologies that takes into account their interaction with institutional and cultural contexts” (Kling, 1999).