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1st Edition

The Usage and Impact of ICTs during the Covid-19 Pandemic

Edited By Shengnan Yang, Xiaohua Zhu, Pnina Fichman Copyright 2023
294 Pages 20 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

294 Pages 20 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This book takes a holistic view of the roles of ICTs during the pandemic through the lens of social informatics, as it is critical to our understanding of the relations between society and technology. Specific attention is given to various stakeholders and social contexts, with analysis at the individual, group, community, and society levels. Pushing the boundaries of information science... Read more

Introduction

Social Informatics in the Context of the COVID-19 Pandemic

Shengnan Yang, Xiaohua Zhu, and Pnina Fichman　

Part I: Governance

1. Towards a Sociotechnical Framework for Misinformation Policy Analysis

Xiaohua Zhu and Shengnan Yang

2. Governing Privacy as Contexts Overlap During Crisis

Madelyn Rose Sanfilippo and Chang Liu　

Part 2: Community

3. A Social Informatics Approach to Online Community of Practice of Art Recreation Challenge on Instagram During COVID-19

Pnina Fichman and Meredith Dedema　

4. Treating a Viral Culture: Using Cultural Competency and Social Informatics to Design Contextualized Information Literacy Efforts for Specific Social Information Cultures

Rachel N. Simons and Aaron J. Elkins　　

Part 3: Information Behavior

5. Information Behavior and Emotion Change in Public Health Emergency of International Concern: A Case Study of Middle-Aged People

Shijuan Li Xiaolong Chen Hui Lin and Xinmei Hu　

6. Evolution of Discussion Topics in Online Depression Self-Help Groups Before, During, and After COVID-19 Lockdown in China

Honglei Lia Sun and Pnina Fichman

7. Public Engagement With Science During and about COVID-19 via Twitter

Meredith Dedema and Noriko Hara　

Part 4: Everyday life

8. From Paperless Offices to Peopleless Offices: The Effects of Enforced ICT Usage During Covid-19 Lockdowns on Workplace’s Information Practices

Katriina Byström　

9. Algorithmic Assemblages, the Natural Attitude, and the Social Informatics of the Pandemic Lifeworld

Howard Rosenbaum

Biography

Shengnan Yang is a PhD candidate in the Luddy School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering at Indiana University in Bloomington. Her main areas of research focus on social informatics, information policy, and digital inequality.

Xiaohua (Awa) Zhu is an Associate Professor at the School of Information Sciences at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Her research focuses on digital rights, information policy, social informatics, and academic libraries.

Pnina Fichman is a Professor of Information Science at the Luddy School of Informatics Computing and Engineering, and the Director of the Rob Kling Center for Social Informatics at Indiana University, Bloomington. She has published five co-authored/edited books and over a hundred peer reviewed journal articles, conference papers, and book chapters about social informatics, trolling, information mediation, and communities of practice.

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