Social Informatics

Herausgeber: Hara, Noriko; Fichman, Pnina

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Social informatics examines how society is influenced by digital technologies and how digital technologies are shaped by political, economic, and socio-cultural forces. Chapters in this edited volume use social informatics approaches to analyse recent issues in our increasingly data-intensive society.

Produktdetails

• Global Perspectives on Library and Information Science
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 252
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. März 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 378g
• ISBN-13: 9781032606293
• ISBN-10: 1032606290
• Artikelnr.: 72106977

Autorenporträt

Noriko Hara is Professor and Department Chair in the Department of Information & Library Science in the Luddy School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering at Indiana University, Bloomington. Pnina Fichman is a Professor of Information Science in the Luddy School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering and the Director of the Rob Kling Center for Social Informatics at Indiana University, Bloomington.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction; Section I: Theoretical Frameworks of SI; 1: Some reflections
on the grounds of social informatics; 2: Social Informatics
Thematic-Methodological Framework; Section II: Social Informatics
Perspectives on Data; 3: From Innovative Methodologies to Creative
Mythologies: Measuring GLAM Soft Power through Data-Driven Research; 4:
Understanding Algorithmic Governance and Governance of Algorithms Through a
Disinformation Policy Analysis; 5. Neutrality or Contextuality: Challenges
for Sociotechnical Data Governance; Section III: Social Informatics
Perspectives on Ethics and Social Justice; 6: Smart Governments: The
Pitfalls of Big Data in Public Administration; 7: Augmenting Inequality:
Socio-Technical Transformation of Medicine and Challenges to Digital Health
Citizenship (DHC) in the Age of Artificial Intelligence (AI); 8: A
Socio-Technical Interaction Network (STIN) Perspective on TikTok Fake News:
The Case of the Russia-Ukraine War; Section IV: Opportunities and
Challenges with Digital Technology Domestication; 9: Socio-ecological Model
of Internet Challenges; 10: Role Expansion of social media groups: Example
from the online activity for Roman Zadorov in Israel; 11: Social Media
Affordances for Mediated Science Communication During the COVID-19 Pandemic