| Description |
1 online resource (xx, 216 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Cover -- Title Page -- Contents -- Figures and Tables -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- Chapter 1: Introduction to Social Informatics -- 1.1 The Disconnection Between Popular and Scholarly Discussion -- 1.2 Defining Social Informatics -- 1.3 The Value of Social Informatics -- Chapter 2: The Consequences of ICTs for Organizations and Social Life -- 2.1 The Social Nature of ICTs -- 2.1.1 ICTs Are Interpreted and Used inDifferent Ways by Different People -- 2.1.2 ICTs Enable and Constrain Social Actions and Social Relationships |
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2.1.3 ICTs Provide a Means to Alter Existing Control Structures2.1.4 There Can Be Negative Consequences of ICT Developments for Some Stakeholders -- 2.2 The Technical Nature of ICTs -- 2.2.1 ICTs Play Both Communicative and Computational Roles -- 2.2.2 There Are Important Temporal and Spatial Dimensions of ICT Consequences -- 2.2.3 ICTs Rarely Cause Social Transformations -- 2.3 The Institutional Nature of ICTs -- 2.3.1 Social and Technical Consequences Are Embedded in Institutional Contexts -- 2.3.2 ICTs Often Have Important Political Consequences |
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Chapter 3: Social Informatics for Designers, Developers, and Implementers of ICT-Based Systems3.1 Understanding the Social Design of ICTs -- 3.1.1 The Historical Premise of Designer-Focused Systems -- 3.1.2 The Configurational Nature of ICT-Based Systems -- 3.1.3 Usability Is a Partial Response to Designer-Focused Approaches -- 3.2 Principles for Social Design -- 3.2.1 Social Design Compared to Designer-Focused Approaches -- 3.2.2 Designing for a Heterogeneity of Uses, People, Contexts, and Data -- 3.2.3 The Designing of ICTs Continues During Their Use |
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""3.2.4 There Is Agency in the Design and Deployment of ICTs""""Chapter 4: Social Informatics for ICT Policy Analysts""; ""4.1 How Can Social Informatics Contribute to ICT Policy Analysts�Work?""; ""4.1.1 How Social Informatics Can Help""; ""4.1.2 Contemporary Policy Issues from a Social Informatics Perspective""; ""4.1.2.1 Notebook Computers Replacing Textbooks""; ""4.2 A Historical View of Social Informatics-Oriented Policy Analysis""; ""4.2.1 U.S. ICT Policy (1970�Present)""; ""4.2.1.1 U.S. Congress�s Office of Technology Assessment"" |
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""4.2.1.2 The Computer Science and Telecommunications Board""""4.2.1.3 President�s Information Technology Advisory Committee""; ""4.2.1.4 U.S. Department of Commerce""; ""4.2.2 Private ICT Research Institutes in the 1990s""; ""4.2.3 European ICT Policy Analysis (1985�Present)""; ""4.2.3.1 The United Kingdom�s Programme on Information and Communication Technologies""; ""4.2.3.2 European Commission�s Information Society Project Office in the 1990s""; ""4.3 ICT Policy Analysis in the Next Decades""; ""Chapter 5: Teaching Key Ideas of Social Informatics"" |
| Summary |
"Here is a sustained investigation into the human contexts of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs), covering both research and theory in this emerging field. Authors Kling, Rosenbaum, and Sawyer demonstrate that the design, adoption, and use of ICTs are deeply connected to people's actions as well as to the environments in which they are used. In Chapters One and Two, they define Social Informatics and offer a pragmatic overview of the discipline. In Chapters Three and Four, they articulate its fundamental ideas for specific audiences and present important research findings about the personal, social, and organizational consequences of ICT design and use. Chapter Five covers Social Informatics education; Chapter Six discusses ways to communicate Social Informatics to professional and research communities; and Chapter Seven provides a summary and look to the future."-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 155-181) and indexes |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Computers and civilization.
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COMPUTERS -- Information Technology.
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Computers and civilization
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Rosenbaum, Howard
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Sawyer, Steve, 1960-
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| ISBN |
1573879584 |
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9781573879583 |
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9781573878777 |
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1573878774 |
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