TY - JOUR
T1 - Social informatics in the information sciences
T2 - Current activities and emerging directions
AU - Sawyer, Steve
AU - Rosenbaum, Howard
N1 - Copyright:
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PY - 2000
Y1 - 2000
N2 - Social informatics refers to the interdisciplinary study of the design, uses and consequences of information and communication technologies (ICTs) that takes into account their interactions with institutional and cultural contexts. Social informatics research may be done at group, departmental, organizational, national and/or societal levels of analysis, focused on the relationships among information, information systems, the people who use them and the context of use. In this paper we outline some of the central principles of a social informatics perspective. In doing this we provide an overview of the intellectual geography of social informatics relative to work in the information sciences and discuss the contributions that this perspective and literature provide.
AB - Social informatics refers to the interdisciplinary study of the design, uses and consequences of information and communication technologies (ICTs) that takes into account their interactions with institutional and cultural contexts. Social informatics research may be done at group, departmental, organizational, national and/or societal levels of analysis, focused on the relationships among information, information systems, the people who use them and the context of use. In this paper we outline some of the central principles of a social informatics perspective. In doing this we provide an overview of the intellectual geography of social informatics relative to work in the information sciences and discuss the contributions that this perspective and literature provide.
KW - Information sciences
KW - Intellectual geography
KW - Organizational informatics
KW - Social informatics
KW - Sociotechnical systems
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U2 - 10.28945/583
DO - 10.28945/583
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:52849140733
VL - 3
SP - 88
EP - 95
JO - Informing Science
JF - Informing Science
SN - 1521-4672
IS - 2
ER -