Social informatics links: a representative set of resources

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(2005), "Social informatics links: a representative set of resources", Information Technology & People, Vol. 18 No. 1. https://doi.org/10.1108/itp.2005.16118aab.001

Social informatics links: a representative set of resources

This collection of links represents a studious sampling of the fast-growing academic units, journal outlets, and conference venues that support and engage social informatics scholars and their scholarship. These links are not exhaustive; they are representative. And, many of these sites contain links to places not listed, and to a growing set of resources available to the community.

When I first began collecting links (in 1997) the list was very short and the number of indexed web pages with the phrase “social informatics” numbered a bit over 150. In late 2004, the number exceeded 12,000[1]. This growth rate is probably not sustainable, the energy represented in this growth may be.

Social Informatics Research Centers and Academic Units

Social Informatics Center at Indiana University's School of Library and Information Science[2], web site: www.slis.indiana.edu/CSI/

Social Informatics Research Group in Napier University's School of Computing, web site: www.bim.napier.ac.uk/esis/esis_home.html

Center for the Information Society at the Pennsylvania State University's School of Information Sciences and Technology, web site: http://ist.psu.edu/cis/

Department of Information Systems, London School of Economics, web site: www.is.lse.ac.uk/

Digital World Research Centre, University of Surrey, web site: www.surrey.ac.uk/dwrc/Index.htm

Social Informatics Research Unit, Brighton University, web site: www.cmis. brighton.ac.uk/Research/siru/home.htm

Virtual Society? The Social Science of Electronic Technologies, Oxford University, web site: http://virtualsociety.sbs.ox.ac.uk/

University of Durham, Department of Computer Science, Social Informatics Research, web site: www.dur.ac.uk/dave.robson/social-informatics.html

Center for Computing and Social Responsibility, De Montfort University, web site: www.ccsr.cse.dmu.ac.uk/

Umea University, Department of Informatics[3], web site: www.informatik.umu.se/index_e.html

The Viktoria Institute, Goteborg, Sweden, web site: www.viktoria.se/

Institute for Social Informatics, Denmark,http://isi.secureid.org/

International Institute of Socio-Informatics, Bonn, Germany, web site: www.iisi.de/70.0.html?&L=3

Social informatics at University of Ljubljana, Slovenia, web site: www.social-informatics.org/

Belgrade Open School, Center for Social Informatics, web site: www.bos.org.yu/ cepit/Index1.htm

Ukraine, National Academy for Science, International Research and Training Center for Information Technologies and Systems, web site: www.dlab.kiev.ua/about.htm

University of Toronto, NETLab, web site: www.chass.utoronto.ca/~wellman/netlab/ABOUT/index.html

University of Toledo, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, web site: http://sasweb.utoledo.edu/siwhat.htm

Center for Research on Information Technology and Organization, University of California, Irvine, web site: www.crito.uci.edu/2/

Information Infrastructure Project, Harvard University, web site: www.ksg. harvard.edu/iip/

Science and Technology Studies, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute[4] web site: www. rpi.edu/dept/sts/

Nagoya University, Graduate School of Information Science, web site: www.is.nagoya-u.ac.jp/index.html.en

Graduate School of Informatics, Kyoto University, web site: www.i.kyoto-u.ac.jp/English/

Graduate School of Informatics, Yuan Ze University, web site: /www.yzu.edu.tw/YZU2001/English/academics/informatics/isg/introduction.htm

Journals, annuals, and magazines

The Information Society, web site: www.indiana.edu/ ~tisj/

Information Technology & People, web site: http://www.emeraldinsight.com/rpsv/itp.htm

Information, Communication and Society, web site: www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/1369118x.asp

Science, Technology and Human Values, web site: http://4sonline.org/journals.htm

Scandinavian Journal of Information Systems, web site: www.cs.aau.dk/SJIS/

Annual Review of Information Science and Technology, web site: www.asis.org/ Publications/ARIST/index.php

Social Science Computer Review, web site: www.sagepub.com/journal.aspx?pid=198

IEEE Technology and Society Magazine, web site: www.njcc.com/~techsoc/

ACM Computers and Society Magazine, web site: www.computersandsociety.org/sigcas_ofthefuture2/sigcas/index.cfm

Conference venues

The Society for the Social Studies of Science, web site: http://4sonline.org/

International Symposium on Technology and Society, web site: http://radburn.rutgers.edu/andrews/projects/ssit/istas.html

ACM Special Interest Group on Computers and Society Conferences, web site: www.computersandsociety.org/sigcas_ofthefuture2/sigcas/subpage/sub_page.cfm?section=6

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  Conferences of the Association for Information Systems, web site: www.aisnet.org/

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  International Federation on Information Processing:

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  Working Group 8.2: Information Systems in Organizations and Society, web site: www.ifipwg82.org/tiki-index.php

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  Technical Committee 9: Relationship between Computers and Society, web site: www.info.fundp.ac.be/ ~jbl/IFIP_tc9/index.html

American Society for Information Science and Technology Conferences, web site: www.asis.org/Conferences/

Information Systems Research Seminar in Scandinavia, web site: www.cs.auc.dk/IRIS/conference/conference.html

Steve SawyerSchool of Information Sciences and Technology, The Pennsylvania State University, Philadelphia, USA

Notes

1. 1.

   Averaging searches via Yahoo and Google done in October 2004 for “social informatics”.

2. 2.

   Many of the information science and information studies schools in North America have a social informatics group or social informatics researchers on faculty. This is a growth area in these schools.

3. 3.

   Many of the Danish, Swedish, Finnish and Norwegian university units focused on informatics have either social informatics research group, or social informatics researchers in a group. The social informatics tradition of research in the Scandic and Nordic countries is both strong and productive.

4. 4.

   Many of the Science, Technology and Society (STS) Departments in North America and Europe have long traditions of supporting social informatics research efforts.