== Social informatics: perspectives, examples, and trend / Sawyer & Eschenfelder(2002)==

**Citation** - Sawyer, S., & Eschenfelder, K.R. (2002). Social informatics: perspectives, examples, and trends. In B. Cronin & D. Shaw (Eds.), Annual Review of Information Science and Technology, v.36, p.392-425.

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== Content ==
* Introduction
==Definds==
* What is social informatics
** The problem-oriented nature of social informatics 
** Empirical and theory-based focus
** A means of linking
** Ties to informatics
** What social informatics is not
===Definition===
"Social informatics is the term we use to represent a field of research focusing on the relationships between information and communications technologies and larger social context in which those ICTs exist." (p.428)
社會資訊學的 研究主題是 聚焦於  資訊傳播技術 與其社會脈絡 之間的關係

==Foundations==
* The foundations of social informatics
** The roles of the social context
** Methodological pluralism
==Themes==
* Social informatics themes
** Common finding #1: ICT uses lead to multiple and sometimes paradoxical effects
** Common finding #2: ICTs shape thought and action in ways that benefit some groups more than others and theSe differential effects often have moral and ethical consequences
** Common finding #3: A reciprocal relationship exists between ICTs/ICT practiCe context
*** Table 10.1 the treatment of shaping directionality in the social informatics literature
*** ConteXt shapes ICT design, implementation, and use
*** ICT design, implementation, and use shapes context
*** Bidirectional shaping between context and ICT design, implementation, and use
** Context and levels of analysis in the social informatics literature
== Trends==
* Trends in social informatics research
** Educational opportunities
** Professional opportunities
** Research opportunities


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