Technology - by the people or for the people? Posted By : Stealth - ISS Inc.
This paper analyzes the work of Rob Kling of social informatics and how implementing it in information technology organizations might cause difficulties. Social informatics is identified as, the interdisciplinary study of the design uses and consequences of information technologies that takes into account their interaction with institutional and cultural contexts”. This complex interdisciplinary approach consolidates the knowledge from mathematics, physics, computer science, management and human society. It today’s society it is not easy to implement technology without human and socio interaction. Not only that, but as this paper will show, implementing the same technology will not always have the same effect and result of how and when it is being used. The human factor and society determines technology development and not vice versa, where society is influenced and organized around technology.
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