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Leírás (Call for papers)
1. “Social Informatics”: What Is It?“Social Informatics (SI) refers to the body of research and study that examines social aspects of computerization -- including the roles of information technology in social and organizational change and the ways that the social organization of information technologies are influenced by social forces and social practices. SI includes studies and other analyses that are labelled as social impacts of computing, social analysis of computing, studies of computer-mediate communication (CMC), information policy, ‘computers and society,’ organizational informatics, interpretive informatics, and so on.
SI sets agendas for all the technical work in two ways:
1. more superficially, by drawing attention to functionalities that people value, thus setting priorities for design and implementation ; and
2. more fundamentally, by articulating those analytical categories that have been found useful in describing social reality, and that which therefore should also define technical work in/for that reality as well.”
[Kling, 2001a] Suggested themes for submission
Concept, Methodology…
Different schools?
Social Informatics as a field name: its borders? How social context matters?
Social Informatics is “defined by its topic (and fundamental questions about it) rather than by a family of methods”? [Kling, 1999a]
“Social issues and impacts of computing: From arena to discipline” [Kling, 1980a]
Enlargement of the concept?
History of Social Informatics
2. “Social Informatics”: Ubiquity?
“As ICT are everywhere, social informatics should be everywhere.”
“A more formal definition (of Social Informatics) is the interdisciplinary study of the design, uses and consequences of information technologies that takes into account their interaction with institutional and cultural contexts.” [Kling, 1999], and [Kling, 2001b]
The authors could choose among the different topics, which are listed hereafter. But more importantly, they would have to focus and bring answers to questions – whithout being restricted by them - regarding social informatics issues such as:
How do you make explicit the relationship of your approach to social informatics? In theory and/or in practice.
What has been your human choice?
How do you perceive the link between your development and a critical reflection on politics of the information society?
How your human choice may affect the practice?
What is the added value of considering HCC (Human Choice and Computers)?
How do you promote Human Centred Systems?
What are the relationships between technical and social aspects?
Etc.
Topics suggested for submission
Ethics of computing in the Information Society
The shaping of informational societies
What could mean ‘fair globalization’?
Artificial and Genuine Intelligence and Human beings
Human Choice and ICT in different cultures
Mental models for travelling through the Computer World and the Cyber Society
Children Imaginary and the Information Society
Education to a life in the Information Age, distance education
The conceptualization of Digital Libraries
Intellectual property rights, copyrights, patents, and digital media rights: open and free culture, digital restriction management
The merging of media (the so-called “convergence”) and the social impact of media
Software as a cultural technique of the digital age, as a form of speech
ICT and Developing Countries, or ‘Improving Countries’
Digital Divide
ICT in households – Hidden agenda – Health care
Citizen surveillance
Gender theories and studies
Political discourses about ICT and social change
Key questions about ICT international, regional, national policies
Governance, regulation and eGovernment?
Changes in democracy?
Privacy and surveillance: technical trends and legislation
Pervasive computing, profiling in data mining, biometrics, ID cards,
Place of economic and market forces in the development of Information Society
Socio-technical design in specific IT sectors – Networked firms
Software as a cultural technique or product, as a form of speech, or an algorithmic solution to problems
CSCW (Computer Supported Cooperative Work): A workable label?
IT and Organizational changes in Digital Economies [Kling, 1999b]
Open access and its effect on organizations
WIKI, Blogs and so on: their social issues
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