1st Edition

Social Informatics

Edited By Noriko Hara, Pnina Fichman Copyright 2025
252 Pages 10 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

252 Pages 10 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

252 Pages 10 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Social informatics examines how society is influenced by digital technologies and how digital technologies are shaped by political, economic, and socio-cultural forces. The chapters in this edited volume use social informatics approaches to analyze recent issues in our increasingly data-intensive society. Taking a social informatics perspective, this edited volume investigates the interaction... Read more

Introduction

Noriko Hara & Pnina Fichman

Section I: Theoretical Frameworks of SI

1: Some reflections on the grounds of social informatics

Howard Rosenbaum

2: Social Informatics Thematic-Methodological Framework

Zdeněk Smutný and Vasja Vehovar & Jošt Bartol

Section II: Social Informatics Perspectives on Data

3: From Innovative Methodologies to Creative Mythologies: Measuring GLAM Soft Power through Data-Driven Research

Dr Natalia Grincheva

4: Understanding Algorithmic Governance and Governance of Algorithms Through a Disinformation Policy Analysis

Shengnan Yang & Xiaohua Awa Zhu

5. Neutrality or Contextuality: Challenges for Sociotechnical Data Governance

Kyra Milan Abrams and Madelyn Rose Sanfilippo

Section III: Social Informatics Perspectives on Ethics and Social Justice

6: Smart Governments: The Pitfalls of Big Data in Public Administration

Bárbara da Rosa Lazarotto

7: Augmenting Inequality: Socio-Technical Transformation of Medicine and Challenges to Digital Health Citizenship (DHC) in the Age of Artificial Intelligence (AI)

Gül Seçkin

8: A Socio-Technical Interaction Network (STIN) Perspective on TikTok Fake News: The Case of the Russia-Ukraine War

Bevis Hsin-Yu Chen & Pnina Fichman

Section IV: Opportunities and Challenges with Digital Technology Domestication

9: Socio-ecological Model of Internet Challenges

Pnina Fichman & Patrick Sullivan

10: Role Expansion of social media groups: Example from the online activity for Roman Zadorov in Israel

Azi Lev-On

11: Social Media Affordances for Mediated Science Communication During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Noriko Hara & Seung Woo Chae

 

Biography

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.