The social informatics of knowledge

In the Introduction to this special issue on the Social Informatics of Knowledge, the editors of the issue reflect on the history of the term “social informatics” and how the articles in this issue both reflect and depart from the original concept. We examine how social informatics researchers have studied knowledge, computerization, and the workplace, and how all of those have evolved over time. We describe the process by which articles were included, how they help us understand the field of social informatics scholarship today, and reflect briefly on what the future of the field holds.

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[36]  Mae Keary.  Social Informatics: Past, Present and Future , 2015, Online Inf. Rev..

[37]  Yongqiang Sun,et al.  Knowledge withholding in online knowledge spaces: Social deviance behavior and secondary control perspective , 2019, J. Assoc. Inf. Sci. Technol..

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[41]  Lew Hassell,et al.  Computerization Movements and Technology Diffusion , 2009, J. Assoc. Inf. Sci. Technol..

[42]  Hazel Hall,et al.  Organizational culture in knowledge creation, creativity and innovation: Towards the Freiraum model , 2014, J. Inf. Sci..