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Record Nr.

UNINA9910464821603321

Titolo

Social informatics : past, present and future / / edited by Pnina Fichman and Howard Rosenbaum

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Newcastle upon Tyne, [England] : , : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

1-4438-5802-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (229 p.)

Disciplina

303.4833

Soggetti

Information technology - Social aspects

Information technology - Social aspects - 21st century

Information society - Social aspects

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters.

Nota di contenuto

TABLE OF CONTENTS; CONTRIBUTOR LIST; REVIEWS; INTRODUCTION; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; PART I; CHAPTER ONE; CHAPTER TWO; PART II; CHAPTER THREE; CHAPTER FOUR; CHAPTER FIVE; CHAPTER SIX; CHAPTER SEVEN; PART III; CHAPTER EIGHT; CHAPTER NINE; CHAPTER TEN; CHAPTER ELEVEN; CHAPTER TWELVE

Sommario/riassunto

Social Informatics: Past, Present and Future is a collection of twelve papers that provides a state-of-the-art review of 21st century social informatics. Two papers review the history of social informatics, and show that its intellectual roots can be found in the late 1970's and early '80's and that it emerged in several different locations around the world before it coalesced in the US in the mid-1990's. The evolution of social informatics is described under four periods: foundational work, dev...