This newly released report
can help you and your colleagues develop intellectually sound courses about
the social and organizational aspects of computerization. Information
Technologies in Human Contexts is the result of an NSF sponsored workshop
and serves to introduce and make relevant the systematic and empirically-grounded
body of research. It shows how sound systematic analysis can help information
systems and computer science faculty (as well as others) better understand
the consequences of their computerization proposals.
Many IS departments are rethinking
their curricula that plays heed to the social and organizational aspects
of IT. Chapter IV is a discussion of teaching and curricular issues about
the social and organizational aspects of IT. It is written specifically
for academic administrators (e.g., deans and department heads), members
of curriculum committees, and teaching faculty. The chapter provides guidance
for how to integrate techniques and concepts of the social analysis of
computing into an IS or CS curriculum. Earlier chapters explain some of
the key concepts of computing in organizations that derive from high quality,
socially-grounded research.
The report also serves as an introduction
to Social Informatics (SI). SI refers to the body of research and study
that examines the social aspects of computerization -- including the roles
of information technology in social and organizational change and the ways
that the social organization of information technologies are influenced
by social forces and social practices. SI includes studies and other analyses
labebed: social impact of computing, social analysis of computing, "computers
and society", computer-mediated communication (CMC) studies, information
policy, organizational informatics, and other evocative names.
Read the Report about Organizational
Informatics and Social Informatics research and instructional programs
(Word
[699 Kb], PDF
[742 Kb] Current version: August 14, 2000) by Rob
Kling, Holly Crawford, Howard Rosenbaum, Steve Sawyer and Suzanne Weisband.
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