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Social Informatics Emerges as New Discipline
NIH released its Draft Statement on Sharing Research Data for public comment on March 1, 2002.
NIH's new requirement for a data sharing plan is only one of many recent developments reflecting an explosion in information and communications technologies.
A recent issue of the Information Age Warfare Newsletter highlights yet another development: the birth of a new academic discipline, social informatics.
Unlike the majority of investigators in the field of information technology, researchers with a social informatics perspective don't focus on the information hardware. Instead, they examine the ways organizations use and share the information the hardware conveys.
HABIT readers can get a taste of this new discipline by reading "Social Informatics in the Information Sciences: Current Activities and Emerging Directions," published in "Informing Science." To access this paper, click on inform.nu and go to volume 3, issue 2. (Note: Adobe Acrobat Reader is required.) Links cited in the last three pages of the article provide a broader view of what the authors call "intellectual geography" of this new discipline.
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