Workshop on Social Informatics; June 18-19, 2004; Beckman Center, Irvine, CA

该奖项将资助一个研讨会，以表彰和纪念社会信息学领域之父罗布·克林教授。他对IT和社会生活进行了30多年的系统和分析研究。DST计划资助了1997年在印第安纳大学举办的第一期社会信息学研讨会。罗布·克林是私家侦探，当时是社会信息学中心的主任。这一奖项将允许系统地收集数字社会与技术(DST)计划这一领域的研究成果。研讨会将突出、批判性地审查和巩固罗布·克林的工作，并通过为其他学者提供机会贡献他们在社会信息学方面的工作来扩展这一工作，从而使这一领域永垂不朽。更广泛的影响来自于Kling和其他在社会信息学领域工作的人提出的关于IT和社会生活的深刻而实用的观点，他们是由人、机构、实践和技术人工制品组成的相互交织的社会技术网络。这样的概念化导致了从人的角度对IT设计、使用和影响的挑战的洞察。研讨会还将庆祝克林的生平和学术贡献。

This award will provide funding for a workshop to honor and memorialize Professor Rob Kling, the father of the field of Social Informatics. He conducted over 30 years of systematic and analytic research about IT and social life. The DST program funded the first workshop on Social Informatics in 1997 at Indiana University. Rob Kling was the PI and then director of the Center for Social Informatics. This award will allow for a systematic collection of the research in this area of the Digital Society and Technology (DST) Program. The workshop will highlight, critically examine and consolidate the works of Rob Kling and extend that work by providing an opportunity for other scholars to contribute their work on social informatics, thereby perpetuating the field. The broader impacts stem from the profound and yet practical view of IT and social life put forth by Kling and others working in the field of social informatics as intertwined socio-technical networks of people, institutions, practices and technological artifacts. Such a conceptualization leads to insights related to the challenges of IT design, use and implications from a human perspective. The workshop will also celebrate Kling's life and scholarly contributions.