Acta Informatica Pragensia 2020, 9(2), 224-227 | DOI: 10.18267/j.aip.1403639

Call for Special Issue Papers: Perspectives of Social Informatics

Vasja Vehovar ORCID...1, Zdenek Smutny ORCID...2, Alice R. Robbin ORCID...3
1 Centre for Social Informatics, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Ljubljana, Kardeljeva ploščad 5, SI-1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia
2 Department of System Analysis, Faculty of Informatics and Statistics, Prague University of Economics and Business, W. Churchill Sq. 1938/4, 130 67 Prague 3, Czech Republic
3 Luddy School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering, Indiana University, Bloomington, 700 N. Woodlawn Avenue, Bloomington, IN 47408, USA

As was stated in one of the current review articles on social informatics: Research activities related to social informatics are expanding, even as community fragmentation, topical dispersion, and methodological diversity continue to increase. Specifically, the different understandings of social informatics in regional communities have strong impacts, and each has a different history, methodological grounding, and often a different thematic focus. Therefore, this special issue would like to present different perspectives on social informatics that arose in the world. The special issue will be divided into two parts that cover the full scope of social informatics. The first part will focus on theoretically oriented articles and the second part on empirically oriented articles. The special issue is also open to articles that have a thematically close research focus (e.g. socio-informatics) and/or use regional terms that can be translated into English as social informatics, e.g. samfunnsinformatikk, sosialinformatikk, sosioinformatikk, sozioinformatik, sozialinformatik, социальная информатика, družboslovna informatika, 社会情報学 and others.

Keywords: Social informatics, Perspectives, Special issue

Accepted: October 3, 2020; Prepublished online: October 3, 2020; Published: December 31, 2020  Show citation

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Vehovar, V., Smutny, Z., & Robbin, A.R. (2020). Call for Special Issue Papers: Perspectives of Social Informatics. Acta Informatica Pragensia, 9(2), 224-227. doi: 10.18267/j.aip.140
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