Social Informatics

Social informatics examines how society is influenced by digital technologies and how digital technologies are shaped by political, economic, and socio-cultural forces. Chapters in this edited volume use social informatics approaches to analyse recent issues in our increasingly data-intensive society.

Noriko Hara is Professor and Department Chair in the Department of Information & Library Science in the Luddy School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering at Indiana University, Bloomington. Pnina Fichman is a Professor of Information Science in the Luddy School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering and the Director of the Rob Kling Center for Social Informatics at Indiana University, Bloomington.

Introduction; Section I: Theoretical Frameworks of SI; 1: Some reflections on the grounds of social informatics; 2: Social Informatics Thematic-Methodological Framework; Section II: Social Informatics Perspectives on Data; 3: From Innovative Methodologies to Creative Mythologies: Measuring GLAM Soft Power through Data-Driven Research; 4: Understanding Algorithmic Governance and Governance of Algorithms Through a Disinformation Policy Analysis; 5. Neutrality or Contextuality: Challenges for Sociotechnical Data Governance; Section III: Social Informatics Perspectives on Ethics and Social Justice; 6: Smart Governments: The Pitfalls of Big Data in Public Administration; 7: Augmenting Inequality: Socio-Technical Transformation of Medicine and Challenges to Digital Health Citizenship (DHC) in the Age of Artificial Intelligence (AI); 8: A Socio-Technical Interaction Network (STIN) Perspective on TikTok Fake News: The Case of the Russia-Ukraine War; Section IV: Opportunities and Challenges with Digital Technology Domestication; 9: Socio-ecological Model of Internet Challenges; 10: Role Expansion of social media groups: Example from the online activity for Roman Zadorov in Israel; 11: Social Media Affordances for Mediated Science Communication During the COVID-19 Pandemic