A bit more to it: Scholarly Communication Forums as Socio‐Technical Interaction Networks

Kling, Rob; McKim, Geoffrey; King, Adam

doi:10.1002/asi.10154

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“…In social informatics ICT are seen as a socio-technical system: a web-like arrangement of the technological artefacts, people, and the social norms, practices, and rules. As a result, for the social informaficist the technological artefact and the social context are inseparable for the purposes of study and analysis [Kling, McKim, & King, 2003]. It is this principle that most directly links to socio-technical principles.…”

Section: Socio-technical Principles and Social Informaticsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Conceptually, a socio-technical network is a view of a system as a network of people and technologies which are inseparable when trying to examine and understand the system [Kling, McKim, & King, 2003]. Socio-technical interaction network models (STINs) present a method for understanding the interactions between individual socio-technical networks (nodes) that comprise the socio-technical interaction networks [Kling, McKim, & King, 2003].…”

Section: Socio-technical Interaction Networkmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Socio-technical interaction network models (STINs) present a method for understanding the interactions between individual socio-technical networks (nodes) that comprise the socio-technical interaction networks [Kling, McKim, & King, 2003]. This is accomplished through the mapping of relationships between people, people and technology, and technologies [Kling, McKim, & King, 2003]. …”

Section: Socio-technical Interaction Networkmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Four assumptions that echo both the socio-technical principles and social informatics bases serve as the foundation for STIN [Kling, McKim, & King, 2003]:…”

Section: Socio-technical Interaction Networkmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Pursuing this second contribution we contrast two emerging theories -socio-technical interaction networks (STIN) and social actor approaches -that reflect these socio-technical principles and build on social informatics'. The STIN approach provides a system-level framework for analyzing socio-technical networks / systems that views the social and the technological as fundamentally inseparable components of the system [Kling, McKim, & King, 2003]. The social actor approach models users as social beings, embedded within an enabling and constraining social context but with individual agency to shape that context [Lamb & Kling, 2003].…”

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confidence: 99%

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Social Informatics: Principles, Theory, and Practice

Sawyer

Tyworth

IFIP International Federation for Information Processing

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Abstract. Through this paper we make two contributions to social informatics: the interdisciplinary study of the design, development, uses and consequences of information and communication technologies that takes into account their interaction with institutional and cultural contexts. Our first contribution is to make a connection from social informatics to general principles of sociotechnical theories. We do this to both connect social informatics scholarship more directly to the large and growing literature(s) that engage socio-technical theorizing and to advance these principles more directly through social informatics. Our second contribution to social informatics is to engage two contemporary theoretical approaches that draw on social informatics principles: socio-technical interaction networks and principles of social actors and apply them to current practice. We do so to demonstrate that these analytic approaches are the needed tools to help scholars and reflective professionals in practice engage social informatics analyses. By doing this we highlight the potential of social informatics while honouring Rob Kling's legacy in helping to establish this transdiscipline.

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Section: Socio-technical Principles and Social Informaticsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Socio-technical Interaction Networkmentioning

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Section: Socio-technical Interaction Networkmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Four assumptions that echo both the socio-technical principles and social informatics bases serve as the foundation for STIN [Kling, McKim, & King, 2003]:…”

Section: Socio-technical Interaction Networkmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

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Tyworth

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Gender and Power in On‐line Communication

Herring¹

2003

The Handbook of Language and Gender

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This chapter surveys research on gender and the Internet published or presented between 1989, when gender issues first began to be raised in print, and the present time. It brings together research findings and speculations that bear on the claims listed above, and interprets the available evidence in relation to the larger question of whether -and if so, how -gender and power relations are affected in and through Internet communication. The body of evidence taken as a whole runs counter to the claim that gender is invisible or irrelevant on the Internet, or that the Internet equalizes gender-based power and status differentials. At the same time, limited trends towards female empowerment are identified, alongside disadvantages of Internet communication that affect both women and men.The chapter is organized into five sections. The immediately following section considers gender in relation to issues of Internet access, both for users and creators of online resources. Basic access is a prerequisite to online participation, and those who create resources enjoy greater power to promote their agendas. Evidence is then evaluated that bears on claims of gender anonymity in interactive computer-mediated communication (CMC) on the Internet. This section is divided into two parts, the first focusing on asynchronous, and the second, on synchronous, CMC. The fourth section addresses gender on the World Wide Web, from the phenomenon of personal home pages, to entrepreneurial uses, to mass uses of the medium. The final section identifies possible future scenarios, based on current and emergent trends, in an attempt to answer the question: if the Internet is not yet a level playing field for women and men, is it more (or less) likely to become one in the future?

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Gender and (A)nonymity in Computer‐Mediated Communication

Herring¹,

Stoerger²

2014

The Handbook of Language, Gender, and Sexuality

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Computer-mediated communication (CMC) on the Internet has been claimed to possess a degree of anonymity that makes the gender of online communicators irrelevant or invisible; this purportedly allows women and men to participate and be recognized for their contributions equally, in contrast with patterns of male dominance traditionally observed in face-to-face communication. This chapter surveys research on gender and CMC, including textual, multimodal, and mobile communications, published between 1989 and 2013. The body of evidence taken as a whole runs counter to the claim that gender is invisible or irrelevant in CMC, or that CMC equalizes gender-based power and status differentials. In concluding, the notion of anonymity is critiqued, and the question of difference vs. disparity is addressed.

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A bit more to it: Scholarly Communication Forums as Socio‐Technical Interaction Networks

Cited by 189 publications

References 25 publications

Social Informatics: Principles, Theory, and Practice

Social Informatics: Principles, Theory, and Practice

Gender and Power in On‐line Communication

Gender and (A)nonymity in Computer‐Mediated Communication

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