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The social informatics of knowledge
Author(s) -
Meyer Eric T.,
Shankar Kalpana,
Willis Matthew,
Sharma Sarika,
Sawyer Steve
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
journal of the association for information science and technology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.903
H-Index - 145
eISSN - 2330-1643
pISSN - 2330-1635
DOI - 10.1002/asi.24205
Subject(s) - informatics , field (mathematics) , scholarship , engineering informatics , business informatics , data science , health administration informatics , knowledge management , computer science , engineering ethics , health informatics , sociology , political science , engineering , health care , mathematics , pure mathematics , law
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.