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INFORMATICS IN THE UK: CURRENT PERSPECTIVES

by Alastair D. Irons
"... Computing, Computer Science and Information Science are the nearest UK equivalents of the European Informatics degree. Informatics is a term more often associated with research or multidisciplinary applications of Computing. Barely five percent of UK departments concerned with the discipline actuall ..."
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Computing, Computer Science and Information Science are the nearest UK equivalents of the European Informatics degree. Informatics is a term more often associated with research or multidisciplinary applications of Computing. Barely five percent of UK departments concerned with the discipline

INFORMATICS IN THE UK: CURRENT PERSPECTIVES

by Su White, Alastair D. Irons
"... Computing, Computer Science and Information Science are the nearest UK equivalents of the European Informatics degree. Informatics is a term more often associated with research or multidisciplinary applications of Computing. Barely five percent of UK departments concerned with the discipline actuall ..."
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Computing, Computer Science and Information Science are the nearest UK equivalents of the European Informatics degree. Informatics is a term more often associated with research or multidisciplinary applications of Computing. Barely five percent of UK departments concerned with the discipline

The Social Informatics of Blog and Wiki Communities: Authoring Communities of Practice (CoPs)

by Thomas P. Mackey
"... Abstract: Blogs and wikis are online social spaces for collaborative writing and communication. This paper will examine these technologies from a social informatics perspective to better understand the social dimension of participation behaviors. The pedagogical potential of blog and wiki communitie ..."
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Abstract: Blogs and wikis are online social spaces for collaborative writing and communication. This paper will examine these technologies from a social informatics perspective to better understand the social dimension of participation behaviors. The pedagogical potential of blog and wiki

Understanding Project Survival in an ES Environment: A Sociomaterial Practice Perspective

by Erica L Wagner, Sue Newell, Gabriele Piccoli - JOURNAL OF THE ASSOCIATION FOR INFORMATION SYSTEMS , 2010
"... Modern organizations are increasingly choosing to adopt off-the-shelf software applications (e.g., Enterprise Systems, ES) rather than develop tailor-made solutions. However, many studies have shown that adopting prepackaged software is difficult with these highly integrated systems amplifying the p ..."
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implementation research by offering a new perspective to understand the processes of mutual adaptation of the technical and social during system implementation and maintenance of large scale systems (ES). We focus on the turnaround process by which a troubled project at go-live becomes a working information

Merging Theory with Practice: Toward an Evaluation Framework for Community Informatics

by Dara O'Neil , 2001
"... Community informatics is defined as a strategy or discipline that focuses on the use of information and communication technologies by territorial communities. This paper analyzes the emerging evaluation literature on community informatics to develop an understanding of the indicators used to gauge p ..."
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development opportunities. This paper aims to develop an understanding or model of community informatics research that synthesizes diverse theoretical perspectives in two ways: first, by presenting a taxonomy of more than 30 evaluation studies based on common methodological and explanatory dimensions

IOS Press Informatization of local democracy: A structuration perspective

by Zahid Parvez
"... Abstract. Academics and researchers face a challenge of making sense of the role e-democracy plays in the democratic process and with what implications. This requires a deeper understanding of the objectives and assumptions that underpin e-democracy innovations, as well as institutional and technolo ..."
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Abstract. Academics and researchers face a challenge of making sense of the role e-democracy plays in the democratic process and with what implications. This requires a deeper understanding of the objectives and assumptions that underpin e-democracy innovations, as well as institutional

Materials for an exploratory theory of the network society.

by Manuel Castells , Anthony Giddens , Alain Touraine , Anthony Smith , Benjamin Barber , Peter Hall , Roger-Pol Droit , Sophie Watson , Frank Webster , Krishan Kumar , David Lyon , Craig Calhoun , Jeffrey Henderson , Ramon Ramos , Jose E Rodrigues-Ibanez , Jose F Tezanos , Mary Kaldor , Stephen Jones , Christopher Freeman - The British Journal of Sociology , 2000
"... ABSTRACT This article aims at proposing some elements for a grounded theor y of the network society. The network society is the social structure characteristic of the Information Age, as tentatively identi ed by empirical, cross-cultural investigation. It permeates most societies in the world, in v ..."
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-temporal con gurations constitute cultures. They are enacted, reproduced, and ultimately transformed by social actors, rooted in the social structure, yet freely engaging in con ictive social practices, with unpredictable outcomes. A fundamental feature of social structure in the Information Age is its

Practice

by Dale Fitch
"... Abstract: This article describes how information systems research in the human services can be facilitated with a conceptual framework that addresses the fundamental roles of data, information, and knowledge in understanding organizational information systems. Using methodologies originating in info ..."
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Abstract: This article describes how information systems research in the human services can be facilitated with a conceptual framework that addresses the fundamental roles of data, information, and knowledge in understanding organizational information systems. Using methodologies originating

Commentary Commentary: Informatics in Biomedicine and Health Care

by Robert A. Greenes, Edward H. Shortliffe
"... During the last two decades, biomedical informatics (BMI) has become a critical component in biomedical research and health care delivery, as evidenced by two recent phenomena. One, as discussed in the article by Bernstam and colleagues in this issue, has been the introduction of Clinical and Transl ..."
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generation, but it is driven by a focus on applications based in deep understanding of the science and practice, problems, interactions, culture, and milieu of biomedicine and health. Building from Bernstam and colleagues’ distinction between BMI and other IT disciplines, the authors discuss the evolving

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by Representaciones Sociales, De Enfermeras, Sobre Supervisión, De La, Tradicional A La, Valesca Silveira Correia, Maria Lúcia, Silva Servo
"... Objective: to understand the representation of nurses about nursing social supervision in the family health strategy. Method: descriptive and exploratory study with qualitative approach, carried out with five nurses of family health units in Conceição do Jacuípe/BA/Brazil. The technique used for the ..."
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supervision highlight the need of overcoming the traditional supervision with a new perspective of practices in health through hegemonic social supervision. Descriptors: Nursing Supervision; Family Health; Management; Representation.
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