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标题：Report on the 4th Social Informatics SIG Research Symposium: People, Information and Technology: The Social Analysis of Computing
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作者：Kalpana Shankar ; Howard Rosenbaum
期刊名称：Bulletin of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
印刷版ISSN：1931-6550
出版年度：2009
卷号：35
期号：3
出版社：American Society for Information Science and Technology
摘要：Social informatics (SI) researchers are interested and engaged in work that assumes a critical stance towards the notion of mutual shaping – or, as the 2008 ASIS&T Annual Meeting theme might have asked: What is involved in people transforming information and information transforming people? A critical analysis is useful to “bring into question established social assumptions and values regarding information and communication technologies (ICTs) and established understandings of information, particularly as they play themselves out and are institutionalized in social and professional discourses and professional training” [1]. That said, it is inaccurate to suggest that social informatics is unified in content area, analytical framework or methodological approach. Indeed, the variety of research in social informatics reflects the pervasiveness of computing and information in individual, organizational and sociocultural contexts.