The Future of Social Informatics
Out now! The new book on Social Informatics that should become a key statement on where the field is headed in the future. Though the book contains thoughts on the past, present, and future, you’ll…
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Another great IFIP 9.1 workshop on “Computers and Work”
The dynamic team of Steve Sawyer, Julie Rennecker, and myself pulled off another successful meeting of the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) Working Group 9.1, immediately after the ICIS 2009 conference in Phoenix. We…
Academic blogging and Moodle: Two educational technology talks
I gave two Instructional Technology talks recently, one formal and one spontaneous. The formal one was a presentation to our USF Wikis and Blogs group on “Pro Blogging for Dorks Academics”. I talked about the…
Does your technology match your values?
Does our Information Technology match our values? That’s not a question you typically hear companies asking. They usually ask: does the technology match my business and technical requirements? Requirements are the right way to think…
How to get published in Romania: The global reach of blogs
Our paper on Web 2.0 and Social Informatics has now been published in issue #8 of the Journal of Social Informatics (JSI). JSI happens to be an online magazine published by the West University of…
How do you convince people to invest in emerging technology?
The newly-released book Computerization Movements and Technology Diffusion looks at how positive visions of the future convince people to invest in, adopt, and use new technologies. For many emerging technologies, rational arguments and financials aren’t…
IT and Social Research at the AMCIS Conference
I’m pleased to present the paper lineup for the Social Theory in Information systems Research (STIR) track at the AMCIS (AMericas Conference on Information Systems) 2007 conference. For the past five years, my fellow track…
New paper on Web 2.0, wikipedia, and social informatics
A draft version of a new position paper, “Web 2.0: A social informatics perspective“, is now available online. Any actual intelligence on its pages is the product of my co-authors Howard Rosenbaum and Pnina Shachaf,…