Usability Views Article Details  home | timeline | recent | popular | e-reports | userati | books | about  Social Informatics: Overview, Principles and Opportunities (15 Jun 2005) Social informatics is the term that I and others use to represent the trans-disciplinary study of the design, deployment and uses of information and communication technologies (ICT) that account for their interaction with institutional and cultural contexts, including organizations and society. This research is done by scholars in fields such as library and information science, information technology, education, communications, organizational studies, sociology, information systems and computer science. Those pursuing social informatics engage a diverse set of topics and employ a variety of approaches. Article URL: http://www.asis.org/Bulletin/Jun-05/sawyer.html Read 126 more articles from American Society for Information Science sorted by date, popularity, or title. Next Article: The USA Patriot Act Redux: Should We Reauthorize or Repudiate the Post-9/11 Authorities?     This site is a labour of love built by Chris McEvoy