ISBN:
9781627054379
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (xv, 92 pages)
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illustrations.
Series Statement:
Synthesis lectures on information concepts, retrieval, and services # 46
Series Statement:
Synthesis lectures on information concepts, retrieval, and services
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
303.4834
Keywords:
Information technology Social aspects
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Computers and civilization
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Computer science Social aspects
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Information technology
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Computers and civilization
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Computer science
Abstract:
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.
Note:
Part of: Synthesis digital library of engineering and computer science. - Includes bibliographical references (pages 77-90). - Compendex. INSPEC. Google scholar. Google book search. - Title from PDF title page (viewed on October 25, 2015)
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1. Introduction -- 1.1 Social informatics defined -- 1.2 Evolutionary approach to social informatics --
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