Examining the Hyphen: The Value of Social Informatics for Research and Teaching

Meyer, Eric T.

Examining the Hyphen: The Value of Social Informatics for Research and Teaching

In Social Informatics: Past, Present and Future. Pnina Fichman and Howard Rosenbaum (eds.) Newcastle Upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2014

17 Pages Posted: 14 Aug 2014

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Eric T. Meyer

University of California, Berkeley - School of Information; UT Austin iSchool; University of Oxford - Oxford Internet Institute

Date Written: 2014

Abstract

In this chapter, Meyer argues that a main contribution of social informatics is to look at the hyphen in socio-technical, privileging neither the social nor the technical a priori when examing socio-technical systems. This has proven useful in several areas of research and teaching.

Keywords: social informatics

Suggested Citation: Suggested Citation

Meyer, Eric T., Examining the Hyphen: The Value of Social Informatics for Research and Teaching (2014). In Social Informatics: Past, Present and Future. Pnina Fichman and Howard Rosenbaum (eds.) Newcastle Upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2014, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2479323