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Outline
According to Kling, social informatics is "the
interdisciplinary study of the design, uses and consequences of
information technologies that takes into account their interaction
with institutional and cultural contexts". In the past years,
we have witnessed a seemingly profound shift in the use of
web-based technologies as lightweight, end-user friendly social
tools for communication, socialization, and collaboration have
become one of the most popular applications for the world wide web.
We no longer have to look at corporate intranets to see web
technology be used for massive collaboration and communication.
Facebook, Twitter, Linked-in, Sina Weibo, blogs, wikis, recommender
engines, - all this, and more, have thoroughly changed the face of
networked practices around the world, and the consequences are far
from confined to the technological or the virtual. New information
practices have “real” consequences.
Going beyond the initial considerations of Social Informatics by
Kling, this obligatory course for the IM specialization takes up
classic and recent theories from social science and the humanities
that critically examine social aspects of networked communication
such as the above mentioned. The subjects of analysis will be
centered upon work and leisure technologies such as intranets,
mobile communication, and recent developments in social software
practices such as (micro) blogging, wiki's, and peer-to-peer
sharing.
Readings and class structure
The readings are based around research articles from different
fields that have implications for the general theme of the course.
In addition to the literature suggested by the lecturers, two peer
reviewed research articles will have to be chosen by the students
in the project groups. These must be approved by one of the
lecturers no later than October 1st 2013. The articles
should fall within the scope of the student’s planned mini-project
essay.
The generic structure for the class is as follows:
0 Presentations by teachers
1 Groups split in A/B, discussion
2 Groups split in A/B, discussion
3 Plenary presentations
4 Wrap up and miscellaneous
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