Social informatics evolving
Includes bibliographical references (pages 77-90)
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San Rafael, California
Morgan & Claypool
2015
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| Schriftenreihe: | Synthesis lectures on information concepts, retrieval, and services
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 77-90) The study of people, information, and communication technologies and the contexts in which these technologies are designed, implemented, and used has long interested scholars in a wide range of disciplines, including the social study of computing, science and technology studies, the sociology of technology, and management information systems. As ICT use has spread from organizations into the larger world, these devices have become routine information appliances in our social lives, researchers have begun to ask deeper and more profound questions about how our lives have become bound up with technologies. A common theme running through this research is that the relationships among people, technology, and context are dynamic, complex, and critically important to understand. This book explores social informatics (SI), one important and dynamic approach that researchers have used to study these complex relationships. SI is "the interdisciplinary study of the design, uses and consequences of information technology that takes into account their interaction with institutional and cultural contexts" (Kling 1998, p. 52; 1999). SI provides flexible frameworks to explore complex and dynamic socio-technical interactions. As a domain of study related largely by common vocabulary and conclusions, SI critically examines common conceptions of and expectations for technology, by providing contextual evidence |
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| Beschreibung: | "Printed version of a work that appears in the Synthesis digital library of engineering and computer science"--p. 4 of cover |
| Beschreibung: | xv, 92 Seiten Diagramme, Porträts 24 cm |
| ISBN: | 9781627054362 978-1-62705-436-2 1627054367 1-62705-436-7 |