Year: 2000
Type: article
Abstract: Network-centric perspectives have gained increasing salience, as interconnected information and communication technologies (ICTs) become more ubiquitous in our daily lives. In this paper, we provide an overview of socio-technical network studies, which we then use to help situate the development and use of ICTs within social and organizational domains. We briefly review traditional conceptualizations of socio-technical systems, and then introduce some contemporary theoretical extensions and sociological reconceptualizations. This discussion emphasizes the capability of social informatics perspectives to guide our current and future examinations of ICT use in sociotechnical networks. New Socio-Technical Studies The pervasiveness of computing in social life and organizational work underscores the nuanced and interwoven arrangements that arise between people, what they do, and the information and communication technologies (ICTs) they use. This increasing interconnection between the soc...
Authors: Roberta Lamb, Steve Sawyer, Rob Kling
Language: English
Subfield: Management Information Systems
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W1596002793