Socioinformatics - The Social Impact of Interactions between Humans and IT

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Zweig, Katharina (Editor), Neuser, Wolfgang (Editor), Pipek, Volkmar (Editor), Rohde, Markus (Editor), Scholtes, Ingo (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
• Series: Springer Proceedings in Complexity,
• Subjects: Computer science.; Computers and civilization.; Sociophysics.; Econophysics.; Social sciences.; Computer Science.; Computers and Society.; Socio- and Econophysics, Population and Evolutionary Models.; Methodology of the Social Sciences.
• Physical Description: IX, 171 p. 37 illus., 16 illus. in color. online resource.
• ISBN: 9783319093789
• ISSN: 2213-8684

Socioinformatics is a new scientific approach to study the interactions between humans and IT. These proceedings are a collection of the contributions during a workshop of the Gesellschaft für Informatik (GI). Researchers in this emerging field discuss the main aspects of interactions between IT and humans with respect to; social connections, social changes, acceptance of IT and the social conditions affecting this acceptance, effects of IT on humans and in response changes of IT, structures of the society and the influence of IT on these structures, changes of metaphysics  influenced by IT and the social context of a knowledge society.