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What is Social Informatics & How does it Matter?

What is Social Informatics & How does it Matter?. Rob Kling Indiana University Bloomington, IN. Informatics in Europe. Informatics often = Computer Science Informatics often = Math, CS in France, Italy Informatics: CS+ in Germany Informatics often = CS + IS in Scandinavia. X-Informatics.

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What is Social Informatics & How does it Matter?

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  1. What is Social Informatics & How does it Matter? Rob Kling Indiana University Bloomington, IN

  2. Informatics in Europe • Informatics often = Computer Science • Informatics often = Math, CS in France, Italy • Informatics: CS+ in Germany • Informatics often = CS + IS in Scandinavia

  3. X-Informatics • Application of IT to X • Medical Informatics, • Bio Informatics, • Chemical Informatics, • Nursing Informatics, • Community Informatics… • But not always --> Legal Informatics

  4. Social Informatics • “The body of research that examines the design, uses, and consequences of information and communication technologies in ways that take into account their interaction with institutional and cultural contexts.” • (NSF Workshop on SI, 1997)

  5. Social Informatics • Is empirically anchored (“evidence-based”) • Has • analytical, • critical, and • normative orientations

  6. Some Topics Studied in Social Informatics • IT & Organizational Change • IT & Changing Communication Patterns • Privacy & Social Control via IT • Mobilization of Support for IT Projects • Household Appropriation of IT

  7. Competencies for IT Development • Interpersonal • Communication • Technological • Socio-technical

  8. Socio-technical Competence • Understand the complex interdependencies between technology and social groups (from small scale to societal), the ways that groups can shape socio-technical networks, and the consequences of different socio-technical configurations on individual and collective behavior

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