Examining the Hyphen: The Value of Social Informatics for Research and Teaching

In this chapter, Meyer argues that a main contribution of social informatics is to look at the hyphen in socio-technical, privileging neither the social nor the technical a priori when examing socio-technical systems. This has proven useful in several areas of research and teaching.

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