CSST Workshop at 2010 I-Conference
From Sociotechwiki
From its beginnings, work and research in the information field has run up against, worked around, stumbled over, fought about, and occasionally produced theoretical and practical insights across the conceptual and practical lines separating ‘social’ and ‘technical’ dimensions within (invariably mixed) collective practices. So, it turns out, have many other fields. This workshop builds on deep roots, but more immediately a series of summer institutes and workshops dedicated to developing a robust and transdisciplinary science of socio-technical systems (SSTS) that brings together the strength of several research traditions – organization science, social informatics, information systems, HCI, and science and technology studies – that have grappled in various ways with the challenge of thinking (and acting) the ‘social’ and ‘technical’ together. By articulating the keywords and problems that unite and sometimes separate these fields, this workshop seeks to: a) extend the theoretical and methodological range of information scholarship through engagement with innovative work in allied fields; and b) move forward the emerging science of sociotechnical systems in its theoretical, methodological, and practical dimensions.
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