TY - JOUR
T1 - The social informatics of knowledge
AU - Meyer, Eric T.
AU - Shankar, Kalpana
AU - Willis, Matthew
AU - Sharma, Sarika
AU - Sawyer, Steve
N1 - Funding Information:
The authors would like to thank all the participants in the Social Informatics Special Interest Group (SIG-SI) preconference symposium held at the 2017 Annual Meeting of the Association for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T) for their contributions, comments, and help shaping this issue. We are grateful to everyone who submitted an article for consideration for this special issue, and to the authors whose work was included for working with us to polish their final published pieces. We are also indebted to JASIST Editor-in-Chief Javed Mostafa, who suggested the idea of a special issue focused on a social informatics topic, and worked with us to fine-tune our original ideas. Managing editor Julia Khanova has been instrumental in keeping the submission, reviewing, and publication process on-track. We also are deeply indebted to the many reviewers whose comments and suggestions strengthened the articles you see included here. Partial support for author Meyer’s participation in this research was provided by the UK Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) and the Alan Turing Institute under award TU/B/000058.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2019 The Authors. Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology published by Wiley Periodicals, Inc. on behalf of ASIS&T.
PY - 2019/4
Y1 - 2019/4
N2 - In the Introduction to this special issue on the Social Informatics of Knowledge, the editors of the issue reflect on the history of the term “social informatics” and how the articles in this issue both reflect and depart from the original concept. We examine how social informatics researchers have studied knowledge, computerization, and the workplace, and how all of those have evolved over time. We describe the process by which articles were included, how they help us understand the field of social informatics scholarship today, and reflect briefly on what the future of the field holds.
AB - In the Introduction to this special issue on the Social Informatics of Knowledge, the editors of the issue reflect on the history of the term “social informatics” and how the articles in this issue both reflect and depart from the original concept. We examine how social informatics researchers have studied knowledge, computerization, and the workplace, and how all of those have evolved over time. We describe the process by which articles were included, how they help us understand the field of social informatics scholarship today, and reflect briefly on what the future of the field holds.
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U2 - 10.1002/asi.24205
DO - 10.1002/asi.24205
M3 - Editorial
AN - SCOPUS:85062407554
SN - 2330-1635
VL - 70
SP - 307
EP - 312
JO - Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology
JF - Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology
IS - 4
ER -