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Examining the hyphen: the value of social informatics for research and teaching

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One and a half decades after the publication of Kling’s 1999 article explaining “What is social informatics and why does it matter?”, we find ourselves further along the road in terms of understandings of socio-technical configurations, and we must admit as part of any stock-taking that social informatics as an academic pursuit has not achieved the scholarly traction we might have hoped for. While the original article has a fairly healthy number of citations (441 to the 1999 version in D-Lib ...

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University of Oxford
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SSD
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Oxford Internet Institute
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Cambridge Scholars Publishing Publisher's website
Host title:
Social Informatics Past, Present and Future
Pages:
56-72
Publication date:
2014-03-17
ISBN-10:
1443855766
ISBN-13:
9781443855761
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580334
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2015-12-22

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