Week2 Sospro-1
Week2 Sospro-1
Sumber: http://cobhomepages.cob.isu.edu/informatics/discipline/
Social Informatics
• SOCIAL INFORMATICS
– Identifies a body of research that examines the social aspects of
computerization.
– “The interdisciplinary study of the design, uses and consequences of
information technologies that takes into account their interaction with
institutional and cultural contexts” (Kling)
• Goal of Social Informatics
– To understand how people ’ s behavior, interactions, relationships, values
and attitudes interact with IT.
– To develop empirically-grounded concepts that help us to predict (or at
least understand) variations in the ways that people and groups use
information technologies.
The value of Social Informatics
• Social implications of computing in networked world impact of
social media on individualism, collectivism and culture
• Growth and control of the internet digital divide, differences in
access to digital technology resources and its resulting
ramifications for gender, class, ethnicity, geography,
underdeveloped countries accessibility issues
Definisi Konteks Sosial