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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"social informatics"”.
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Implications of the inclusion of document retrieval systems as actors in a social network.
Traditionally, social network analysis (SNA) techniques enable the examination of relationships and the flow of information within networks of human members or groups of humans. This study extended traditional social network analysis to include a nonhuman group member, specifically a document …
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Toward Building A Social Robot With An Emotion-based Internal Control
… the results of a survey we performed via our social informatics approach where we found that: (1) the idea of having emotions in a robot was warmly accepted by Cherry's users, and (2) the intended users were pleased with our initial interface design and functionalities. Guided by these …
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Socio-Technical Perspectives on Digital Photography: Scientific Digital Photography Use by Marine Mammal Researchers
… what the consequences are of this change. This social informatics study uses Kling's Socio-Technical Interaction Networks (STIN) strategy to analyze the regular uses of digital photography within this scientific field, and to understand the consequences of this technology for the practice of …
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Digital art in digital libraries: a study of user-oriented information retrieval
… is developed, based on the principles of Social Informatics and a case study of evaluation efforts in extant projects. The results from this process demonstrate that the scholarly value of digital art can be established by aggregating material from various repositories into a unified …
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The social shaping of cloud computing: an ethnography of infrastructure in East St. Louis, Illinois
… community-based organization provides nonprofit social welfare services to low-income residents within a specific geographic location. In East St. Louis, 100 percent of the local school children are eligible for the free and reduced-price meal program, which is a common measure of poverty. …
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Not just a pretty (inter)face: A critical analysis of Microsoft's 'Ms. Dewey'
… consist of a complex arrangement of technical, social, and cultural (ideological) aspects. Computing interfaces designed to have the characteristics of people raise ethical questions about what it means to explicitly gender and racialize technologies. This project explores these broader …
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Service learning and career development: A case study in library and information science
… impacts of service learning including personal, social and learning outcomes relate to the subsequent careers of the students. The major research questions of the study are: How does a service learning experience in the INIS course contribute to careers/career development of the students? Do they …
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The modern coterie: Fan fiction writers as a community of practice
Female coterie writing groups have had certain characteristics in common across centuries that can be seen today in fan fiction writing groups online. This dissertation focuses on one group of such writers who are active at the LiveJournal blog site. Through the use of virtual ethnography, data has …