[Sigtis-l] PUBLICATION> Social Informatics: Past, Present, Future

[Howard Rosenbaum]

Apologies for cross-posting

We are very happy to announce the publications of the book "Social Informatics: Past, Present and Future," edited by Pnina Fichman and Howard Rosenbaum, both in the Indiana University School of Informatics and Computing and the Rob Kling Center for Social Informatics.

The book is a collection of twelve papers that provides a state-of-the-art review of 21st century social informatics. Two papers review the history of social informatics, and show that its intellectual roots can be found in the late 1970s and early '80s and that it emerged in several different locations around the world before it coalesced in the US in the mid-1990s. The evolution of social informatics is described under four periods: foundational work, development and expansion, a robust period of coherence, and a period of diversification that continues today. Five papers provide a view of the breadth and depth of contemporary social informatics, demonstrating the diversity of theoretical and methodological approaches that can be used. Five papers explore the future of social informatics and offer provocative and disparate visions of its trajectory, ranging from arguments for a new philosophical grounding for the social informatics, to calls for a social informatics based on practice thinking and materiality. 

This book presents a view of SI that emphasizes the core relationship among people, ICT and organizational and social life from a perspective that integrate aspects of social theory and demonstrates clearly social informatics has never been a more necessary research endeavor than it is now. It will be especially useful for graduate students and advanced undergraduate students interested in learning about social informatics research.

To learn more about the book (including a Table of Contents), see

http://ils.indiana.edu/faculty/hrosenba/www/si-book14/si-book.html 

To order the book from the publisher, see

http://www.cambridgescholars.com/social-informatics-6

To order the book from Amazon, see

http://www.amazon.com/Social-Informatics-Past-Present-Future/dp/1443855766/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1397099699&sr=1-1&keywords=social+informatics+past