Social informatics : past, present and future

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Title:

Author:

Fichman, Pnina, editor of compilation.

ISBN:

9781443855761

Physical Description:

xvii, 209 pages ; 22 cm.

General Note:

"This book grew out of the 8th 'Social Informatics Symposium,' which was held in Baltimore in the fall of 2012"--page xi of Introduction.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: pt. I Past -- ch. One The Past: Social Informatics as a Scientific and Intellectual Movement / Howard Rosenbaum -- ch. Two The Evolution of Social Informatics Research (1984-2013): Challenges and Opportunities / Pnina Fichman -- pt. II Present -- ch. Three Examining the Hyphen: The Value of Social Informatics for Research and Teaching / Eric T. Meyer -- ch. Four Social Informatics, Human Values, and ICT Design / Kenneth R. Fleischmann -- ch. Five Frameworks for Understanding Knowledge Sharing in Online Communities: Boundaries and Boundary Crossing / Pnina Fichman -- ch. Six Use Regimes: A Theoretical Framework for Social Informatics Research on Intellectual and Cultural Property / Kristin Eschenfelder -- ch. Seven Don't Tap on the Glass, You'll Anger the Fish! The Information Worlds of Distributed Scientific Teams / Shuheng Wu -- pt. III Future --

Contents note continued: ch. Eight Reframing the Socio-Technical Problem: A Way Forward for Social Informatics / Lysanne Lessard -- ch. Nine Projects and Objects: Points of Contact between Textual Studies and Sociotechnical Investigations / Grant Leyton Simpson -- ch. Ten Turning to the Practice Approach in Social Informatics / Andrew Cox -- ch. Eleven Social Informatics and Business Reform / J.P. Allen.

Subject Term:

Information society -- Congresses.

Information technology -- Social aspects -- Congresses.

Added Author:

Fichman, Pnina,

Rosenbaum, Howard,

Added Conference Author:

Annual Social Informatics Symposium (8th : Fall, 2012 : Baltimore, Maryland, USA)

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Social Informatics: Past, Present and Future is a collection of twelve papers that provides a state-of-the-art review of 21st century social informatics. Two papers review the history of social informatics, and show that its intellectual roots can be found in the late 1970s and early '80s and that it emerged in several different locations around the world before it coalesced in the US in the mid-1990s. The evolution of social informatics is described under four periods: foundational work, development and expansion, a robust period of coherence, and a period of diversification that continues today. Five papers provide a view of the breadth and depth of contemporary social informatics, demonstrating the diversity of theoretical and methodological approaches that can be used. A further five papers explore the future of social informatics and offer provocative and disparate visions of its trajectory, ranging from arguments for a new philosophical grounding for the social informatics, to calls for a social informatics based on practice thinking and materiality.This book presents a view of SI that emphasizes the core relationship among people, ICT and organizational and social life from a perspective that integrates aspects of social theory and demonstrates clearly social informatics has never been a more necessary research endeavor than it is now.