Acta Informatica Pragensia 2021, 10(3), 207-210 | DOI: 10.18267/j.aip.1732584

What is Social Informatics from an International Perspective?

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

This editorial aims to summarise the special issue entitled “Perspectives of Social Informatics” that builds on the current international view of social informatics. The special issue consists of eight scientific articles and one book review.

Keywords: Social Informatics; Socioinformatics; Sozioinformatik; Arkady Ursul; Russia; Germany; Japan; Slovenia; Czech Republic; Slovak Republic.

Received: December 31, 2021; Accepted: December 31, 2021; Published: December 31, 2021  Show citation

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