Theories Related to Social Informatics

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This list was started on Ingbert's Social Informatics Field Exam Reading List Worksheet and now exists here so that people can add to it, refine it, edit it, annotate it, etc.

The readings in some of these sections are of higher quality, and are more targeted, than others.

For people who are using this list to take their field exam, here is an explanation of the codes:

  • SI-F means that the reading has appeared on a previous social informatics field exam reading list.
  • C means that the reading has appeared on the old core reading list
  • SI-S means that the reading has appeared on the syllabus for the seminar in social informatics.
    • SI-S1 means that the reading appeared on the syllabus of the first seminar in social informatics.
  • The abbreviations for the different fields for the field exam are as follows. It should be noted that this list is constantly changing, and that faculty typically do not bother to tell us when the list changes.
    1. H = History of Libraries and of Library/Information Science
    2. SI = Social Informatics
    3. UU = Uses and Users of Information
    4. CLY = Children's Literature and Youth Services
    5. IOA = Information Organization and Access
    6. IP = Information Policy
    7. ISR = Information Storage and Retrieval


Contents

[edit] General/High-Level Sensitizing Theoretical Constructs

These constructs are useful to guide the overall approach a researcher might take when doing research. It is the kind of thing that Becker (1998) would call "Research Imagery".

Becker, Howard S. (1998). Tricks of the Trade: How to Think About Your Research While You're Doing It. The University of Chicago Press: Chicago, IL.

[edit] Information Ecologies

Nardi, Bonnie A.; O'Day, Vicki L. (1999). Information Ecologies: Using Technology with Heart. First Monday, 4(5). Retrieved from: http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue4_5/nardi_chapter4.html on 05/24/2006.

(SI-F) Nardi, B. & O'Day, V. (1999), Information ecologies : using technology with heart. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press p.49-58

  • Ch. 4: Nardi, B. & O'Day, V., Information Ecologies (p. 49-58)

[edit] Ecologies of Knowledge

Star, Susan Leigh (ed.) (1995). Ecologies of Knowledge: Work and Politics in Science and Technology. State University of New York Press.

Orlikowski, W. J. (2002). "Knowing in Practice: Enacting a Collective Capability in Distributed Organizing," Organization Science. 13(4): 249-273.


[edit] Sense-Making Theoretical Frameworks

These constructs are useful for analyzing empirical data that has been collected. They are primarily useful for providing an analytic framework in which the data that is collected can be understood. As such, they resemble Carnapian Languages.

[edit] Sociotechnical Systems Theory (SST)

[edit] Early Works

  • Trist, E. L.; Bamforth, K. W. (1951). Social and psychological consequences of the longwall method of coal-getting. Human Relations, 4(1), 3-28.


[edit] Standard Socio-Technical Systems Theory

  • Trist, Eric L. (1981). The Sociotechnical Perspective: The Evolution of Sociotechnical Systems as a Conceptual Framework and as an Action Research Program. Perspectives on Organization Design and Behavior. Andrew H. van de Ven, William F. Joyce, Eds. John Wiley & Sons: New York.
  • Hackman, J. Richard (1981). Sociotechnical Systems Theory: A Commentary. Perspectives on Organization Design and Behavior. Andrew H. van de Ven, William F. Joyce, Eds. John Wiley & Sons: New York.
  • Bostrom, R. and Heinen, J.S. 1977. "MIS problems & failures: a socio-technical perspective, part ii: the application of socio-technical theory." MIS Quarterly, 1(4), 11-28.
  • Emery, F. E.; Trist, E. L. (1973). Towards a Social Ecology: Contextual Appreciations of the Future in the Present. New York, NY, USA: Plenum Publishing Company.
  • Cherns, Albert (1976). The Principles of Sociotechnical Design. Human Relations, 29(8), 783-792.

[edit] Rationalist/Functional perspective vs. Pragmatist/Cultural perspective (ANT + SST)

  • Kaghan, William N.; Bowker, Geoffrey C. (2001). Out of Machine Age?: Complexity, sociotechnical systems and actor network theory. Journal of Engineering and Technology Management (JET-M), 18(3-4), 253-269.
    • Read this after reading the above articles, and more profitably after reading/scanning some of the more recent Socio-Technical Systems theory literature.

[edit] Historical Treatments

  • Trist, Eric L. (1981). The Sociotechnical Perspective: The Evolution of Sociotechnical Systems as a Conceptual Framework and as an Action Research Program. Perspectives on Organization Design and Behavior. Andrew H. van de Ven, William F. Joyce, Eds. John Wiley & Sons: New York.
  • Mumford, Enid (2006). The Story of Socio-technical Design: Reflections on its Successes, Failures and Potential. Information Systems Journal (Info Systems J), 16: 317-342.

[edit] Distributed Cognition

Hutchins, Edwin (1995). Cognition in the Wild. Cambridge, MA, USA: The MIT Press.

(SI-S1) Hutchins, E., and Klausen, T. (2000) 'Distributed cognition in an airline cockpit. Cognition and communication at work'. In Cognition and communication at work, Y. Engstrom and D. Middleton, Eds. Cambridge University Press, New York, NY, 15-34.

(SI-S1) Hutchins, E. (1995b) 'How a cockpit remembers its speeds'. Cognitive Science. 19, 265-288.

Rogers, Y. (2006) Distributed Cognition and Communication. In The Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics 2nd Edition. Edited by Keith Brown Elsevier: Oxford. 181-202.

Rogers, Y. (1997) A brief introduction to Distributed Cognition.

(SI-S1) Rogers, Y. and Ellis, J. (1994) 'Distributed Cognition: an alternative framework for analyzing and explaining collaborative working'. Journal of Information Technology, 9(2), 119-128.

[edit] Activity Theory

(SI-F) Nardi, Bonnie A. (Ed), 1996. Activity Theory and Human-Computer Interaction. In Nardi, B. (ed.) Context and Consciousness: Activity Theory and Human-Computer Interaction. Cambridge: MIT Press. 7-17.

Kaptelinin, Victor; Nardi, Bonnie A. (2006). Acting with Technology: Activity Theory and Interaction Design. Cambridge, MA, USA: The MIT Press.

Spasser, Mark A. (2002). Realist Activity Theory for Digital Library Evaluation: Conceptual Framework and Case Study. Computer Supported Cooperative Work. 11(1-2), 81-110.

(SI-F) Engestrom, Yrjo (2000). Activity theory as a framework for analyzing and redesigning work. Ergonomics. 43(7), 960 - 974.

Engestrom, Yrjo (1999). Perspectives on Activity Theory (Learning in Doing: Social, Cognitive and Computational Perspectives). Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.

[edit] Situated Action Theory

(C) Suchman, Lucy A. (1987). Plans and Situated Actions: The Problems of Human-Machine Communication. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

  • Preface, vii-x
  • Ch. 1: Introduction, 1-4
  • Ch. 2: Interactive Artifacts, 5-26
  • Ch. 4: Situated Actions, 49-67

(SI-F) Suchman, Lucy A. (2006). Human-Machine Reconfigurations: Plans and Situated Actions. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.

[edit] Actor-Network Theory

Black-Boxing


(SI-F) Kaghan, William N.; Bowker, Geoffrey C. (2001). Out of Machine Age?: Complexity, sociotechnical systems and actor network theory. Journal of Engineering and Technology Management (JET-M), 18(3-4), 253-269.

  • Specifically: Black Boxing: pages 258-259

Latour, Bruno (2005). Reassembling the Social: An Introduction to Actor-Network Theory. Oxford University Press: Oxford, UK.

Latour, Bruno (1993/1996). Aramis: or the Love of Technology. Catherine Porter (Trans.). Cambridge, MA, USA: Harvard University Press.


[edit] Cybernetics

Wiener, Norbert (1948 & 1961). Cybernetics: Or Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine. Second ed. Cambridge, MA, USA: The MIT Press.


[edit] Ambient Information

(I'm sure there are other, more directly focused articles than this one)

(SI-S1) Clive Thompson - Tunnel Vision - http://www.wired.com/news/columns/0,70387-0.html


[edit] Adaptive Structuration Theory

(SI-F) DeSanctis, G. and Poole, M. S. (1994). Capturing the complexity in advanced technology use: Adaptive structuration theory. Organization Science, 5(2): 121-147.

(SI-F) Yates, J. and Orlikowski, W. J. (1992). Genres of organizational communication: A structurational approach to studying communication and media. Academy of Management Review 17(2):299-326.

(SI-F) Poole, M. S.; DeSanctis, G. (1990). Understanding the Use of Group Decision Support Systems: The Theory of Adaptive Structuration. In Fulk, J.; Steinfield, C. (Eds.) Organizations and Communication Technology. Newbury Park, CA: Sage Publications, 173-193.

[edit] Asset Specificities

(this one might be misclassified)

  • site specificity
  • physical asset specificity
  • human asset specificity
  • time specificity
  • procedural asset specificity
  • knowledge specificity

Haythornthwaite, Caroline (2006). Articulating Divides in Distributed Knowledge Practice. Information, Communication & Society: 9(6), 761-780.

Williamson, O. E. (1981) The economics of organizations: The transaction cost approach. American Journal of Sociology: 87, 548-577.

Malone, T. W.; Yates, J.; Benjamin, R. I. (1987). Electronic markets and electronic hierarchies. Communications of the ACM: 30, 484-497.

[edit] Media Richness Theory

(SI-F) Daft, R.L. & Lengel, R.H. (1986), Organizational information requirements, media richness and structural design. Management Science: 32(5), 554-571.

(SI-S1) Lamb, Roberta; Kling, Rob (????). From Users to Social Actors: Reconceptualizing Socially Rich Interaction Through Information and Communication Technology. CSI Working Paper No. 02-11

[edit] Mediated Communication

(SI-F) Herring, S. C. (2002). Computer-mediated communication on the internet. Annual Review of Information Science and Technology, 36:109-168.

(SI-F) Walther, J. B. (1996). Computer-mediated communication: Impersonal, interpersonal, and hyperpersonal interaction. Communication Research, 23(1):3-43.

(SI-F) Kiesler S., Siegel, J. and McGuire T. W. 1984. “Social psychological aspects of computer-mediated communication” American Psychologist 39. 1123-1134

(C) Jones, Steven G. (Ed.) (1995). CyberSociety: Computer-Mediated Communication and Community. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

  • Ch. 1: Jones, Steven G. (Ed.) (1995). Understanding Community in the Information Age.
  • Ch. 7: Baym, N.; The Emergence of Community in Computer-Mediated Communication.
  • Ch. 8: Reid, K.; Virtual Worlds: Culture and Imagination.

[edit] Socio-technical Interaction Networks

(SI-F) Kling, Rob; McKim, Geoffrey; King, Adam (2003). A Bit More to It: Scholarly Communication Forums as Socio-Technical Interaction Networks. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 54(1), 47-67.

[edit] Social Capital

Putnam Robert D. (1995). Bowling Alone: America's Declining Social Capital. Journal of Democracy. 6(1), 65-78. Last retrieved on 2008.01.25 from: http://xroads.virginia.edu/~HYPER/DETOC/assoc/bowling.html

  • "James S. Coleman deserves primary credit for developing the "social capital" theoretical framework. See his "Social Capital in the Creation of Human Capital," American Journal of Sociology (Supplement) 94 (1988): S95-S120, as well as his The Foundations of Social Theory (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1990), 300-21. See also Mark Granovetter, "Economic Action and Social Structure: The Problem of Embeddedness," American Journal of Sociology 91 (1985): 481-510; Glenn C. Loury, "Why Should We Care About Group Inequality?" Social Philosophy and Policy 5 (1987): 249-71; and Robert D. Putnam, "The Prosperous Community: Social Capital and Public Life," American Prospect 13 (1993): 35-42. To my knowledge, the first scholar to use the term "social capital" in its current sense was Jane Jacobs, in The Death and Life of Great American Cities (New York: Random House, 1961), 138." (Putnam 1995, ~77-78?)

Coleman, James S. (1988). Social Capital in the Creation of Human Capital. American Journal of Sociology (Supplement). 94: S95-S120

Coleman, James S. (1990). The Foundations of Social Theory. Cambridge, MA, USA: Harvard University Press, 300-321.

Lin, Nan (2001). Social Capital: A Theory of Social Structure and Action. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.

Lin, Nan (2001). Building a Network Theory of Social Capital. In Karen S. Cook, Ronald S. Burt, Nan Lin (eds.) Social Capital: Theory and Research. Aldine Transaction.

[edit] Media Literacy

Bertram C. Bruce (Chip), Maureen P. Hogan (1998). The Disappearance of Technology: Toward an Ecological Model of Literacy. In D. Reinking, M. McKenna, L. Labbo, and R. Kieffer (Eds.), Handbook of literacy and technology: Transformations in a post-typographic world (pp. 269-281). Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum. Last Retrieved on 2008.01.23 from: http://www.isrl.uiuc.edu/~chip/pubs/disappearance.shtml


[edit] Inquiry Theory

Bruce, B. (1994). The discourses of inquiry: Pedagogical challenges and responses. In D. Keller-Cohen (Ed.), Literacy: Interdisciplinary conversations (pp. 289-316). Cresskill, NJ: Hampton.

[edit] Community

(SI-F) Davis, J. and Stack, M. (1997) "Knowledge in production". In Agre, P. E. and Schuler, D. (Eds), Reinventing Technology, Rediscovering Community Critical Studies in Computing as a Social Practice. Norwood, N.J.: Ablex. 55-72

(SI-F) Agre, P. E. and Schuler, D. (Eds), 1997. Reinventing Technology, Rediscovering Community Critical Studies in Computing as a Social Practice, Norwood, N.J.: Ablex.

(F) Grinter, Rebecca E. (2005) Words about Images: Coordinating Community in Amateur Photography. Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW) 14 (2): 161-188.

Haythornthwaite, Caroline; Kazmer, Michelle M. (eds.) (2004). Learning, Culture and Community in Online Education: Research and Practice. New York, NY, USA: Peter Lang.

Barab, Sasha A.; Kling, Rob; Gray, James H. (eds.) (2004). Designing for Virtual Communities in the Service of Learning. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.

Preece, J., and Maloney-Krichmar, D. (2005). Online communities: Design, theory, and practice. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, 10(4), article 1.

Preece, Jenny (2000). Online Communities: Designing Usability, Supporting Sociability. John Wiley & Sons.

[edit] Organizational Knowledge

Cook, Scott D. N.; Brown, John Seely (1999). Bridging Epistemologies: the Generative Dance Between Organizational Knowledge and Organizational Knowing. Organization Science. 10(4), 381-400.

Brown, John Seely; Duguid, Paul (2002). Organizing Knowledge. In Managing Knowledge, edited by Stephen Little, Paul Quintas and Tim Ray. Sage Publications, 19-40.

(SI-F) Brown, John Seely; Duguid, Paul (2001). Knowledge and Organization: A Social-Practice Perspective. Organization Science. 12(2), 198-213.

[edit] Social Network Theory/Social Network Analysis

(SI-F) Powell, W. W. (1990). Neither market nor hierarchy: Network forms of organization. Research in Organizational Behavior, 12:295-336.

(SI-F) Wellman, B. 2001. Computer Networks As Social Networks. Science. 293(5537)(14 Sep 2001): 2031-2034.

(SI-F) Wellman, B., Salaff, J., Dimitrova, D., Garton, L., Gulia, M. and Haythornthwaite, C.. 1996. “Computer Networks as Social Networks: Virtual Community, Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Telework,” Annual Review of Sociology 22:213-38.

(SI-F) Wellman, B. (1997). "An electronic group is virtually a social network". In Sarah Kiesler, ed. Culture of the Internet. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc. 179-205

Rob Cross, Stephen P. Borgatti, Andrew Parker (2002). Making Invisible Work Visible: Using Social Network Analysis to Support Strategic Collaboration. California Management Review. Last retrieved on 2008.01.23 from: http://www.analytictech.com/borgatti/papers/borgatti%20-%20making%20invisible%20work%20visible.pdf

Wasserman, Stanley; Faust, Katherine (1994). Social Network Analysis: Methods and Applications. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.

Haythornthwaite, C. (2005). Social networks and Internet connectivity effects. Information, Communication & Society, 8(2), 125-147.

[edit] Phenomena Identifying Theoretical Constructs

These constructs identify particular phenomena in the world. As such, they are useful for two purposes:

  1. as sensitizing constructs that a researcher can use to make sure that they are paying attention to everything that might be important as they are collecting data
  2. as analytic constructs that are useful in making sense of data that has been collected


[edit] Boundary Objects

(SI-F) Star, Susan Leigh; Griesemer, James (1989). Institutional Ecology, 'Translations', and Coherence: Amateurs and Professionals in Berkeley's Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, 1907-1939. Social Studies of Science, 19:387-420.

Star, S. L. (1989). The structure of ill-structured solutions: Boundary objects and heterogeneous distributed problem solving. In Distributed Artificial Intelligence, vol. 2. Edited by M. Huhns and L. Gasser, pp. 37-54(?). Pitman, London.

(SI-F) Bowker, Geoffrey C.; Star, Susan Leigh (1999). Sorting things out: Classification and its consequences. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

[edit] Frames & Technological Frames

(SI-F, SI-S1) Orlikowski, Wanda J.; Gash, Debra C. (1994). Technological Frames: Making Sense of Information Technology in Organizations. ACM Transactions on Information Systems, 12(2), 174-207.

[edit] Strong, Weak, & Latent Ties

(SI-F) Granovetter, M. (1973). The strength of weak ties. American Journal of Sociology, 78(6):1360-1380.

(SI-F) Haythornthwaite, C. (2002). Strong, weak and latent ties and the impact of new media. The Information Society, 18(5), 385-401.

Haythornthwaite, C. (2000). Online Personal Networks: Size, Composition and Media Use among Distance Learners. New Media and Society, 2, 195–226. (draft version from 1999; alexia.lis.uiuc.edu/~haythorn/Hay_onlinepersonalnetworks.html) (link currently broken)

Waloszek, Gerd (2002). Personal Networks. SAP Design Guild. Last retrieved on 2008.01.23 from: http://www.sapdesignguild.org/editions/edition5/personal_networks.asp

[edit] Heedful Interrelating (Collective Mind)

(SI-S1) Weick, Karl; Roberts, Karlene H. (1993). Collective mind in organizations: Heedful interrelating on flight decks. Administrative Science Quarterly, Sep93, Vol. 38 Issue 3, p357, 25p. ISSN: 0001-8392

[edit] Invisible Work

(SI-F) Star, Susan Leigh; Strauss, Anselm; (1999). Layers of Silence, Arenas of Voice: The Ecology of Visible and Invisible Work. Computer Supported Cooperative Work, 8(1-2): 9-30.

Suchman, Lucy (1995). Making Work Visible. Communications of the ACM. 38(9), 56-68.

[edit] Articulation Work

(SI-F) Suchman, Lucy (1996). Supporting Articulation Work. In Rob Kling, Ed. Computerization and Controversy: Value Conflicts and Social Choices. Second edition. San Diego: Academic Press, 407-423.

(SI-F) Schmidt, K. and Simone, C. (1992). Taking CSCW seriously: Supporting articulation work. Computer Supported Cooperative Work, 1(1-2):7-40.

Gerson, Elihu M.; Star, Susan Leigh (1986). Analyzing Due Process in the Workplace. ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS), 4(3): 257 - 270.


Strauss, Anselm (1988): The articulation of project work: An organizational process. The Sociological Quarterly, vol. 29, no. 21988, pp. 163-178.

Strauss, Anselm, Shizuko Y. Fagerhaugh, Barbara Suczek, and Carolyn Wiener (1985): Social Organization of Medical Work. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press.

[edit] Infrastructure

Star, Susan Leigh (1999). The Ethnography of Infrastructure. American Behavioral Scientist, 43(3), 377-391.

(SI-F) Star, S. L. and Ruhleder, K. (1996). Steps toward an ecology of infrastructure: Design and access for large information spaces. Information Systems Research, 7(1):111-134(8?).

(SI-F) Star, S. L. & Bowker, G. C. (2002). How to infrastructure. In L. Lievrouw & S. Livingstone (eds). Handbook of New Media, (pp. 151-162). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

(SI-S1) Monteiro, Eric; Hanseth, Ole (1995). Social shaping of information infrastructure: on being specific about the technology. In Orlikowski, Wanda J., Geoff Walsham, Matthew R. Jones and Janice I DeGross. Information Technology and Changes in Organizational Work. Chapman & Hall, p.325 - 343.

(SI-S1) Hanseth, Ole; Monteiro, Eric; Hatling, Morten (1996). Developing information infrastructure: the tension between standardisation and flexibility. Science, Technology and Human Values, 11(4), 407-426.

(SI-F) Bowker, G. and Star, S.L. 1998. "Building information infrastructures for social worlds: the role of classifications and standards," In Toru Ishida, ed. Community Computing and Support Systems:Social Interaction in Networked Communities. Berlin:Springer-Verlag. pp. 231-248

(C) Bowker, Geoffrey C.; Star, Susan Leigh (1994). Knowledge and Infrastructure in International Information Management: Problems of Classification and Coding. In Lisa Bud-Frierman (ed.), Information Acumen, London: Routledge, 187-216.

(C) Jewett, Tom; Kling, Rob (1991). The Dynamics of Computerization in a Social Science Research Team: A Case Study of Infrastructure, Strategies, and Skills. Social Science Computer Review, 9: 246-275.


[edit] (Technology) Appropriation

(SI-F, SI-S1) Ron Eglash, Jennifer Crossiant, Giovanna Di Chiro, and Rayvon Fouché (Eds.) (2004). Appropriating Technology: Vernacular Science and Social Power. University of Minnesota Press.

(SI-S1) Hickman, Larry (1989). Doing and making in a democracy: Dewey's experience of technology. In Paul T. Durbin (ed.), Philosophy of technology. Dordrecht: Kluwer.

[edit] Workarounds

(SI-F) Gasser, L. (1986). The integration of computing and routine work. ACM Transactions on Information Systems, 4(3):205-225.

[edit] Situated Learning/Situated Cognition/Legitimate Peripheral Participation

(SI-F) Lave, J. & Wenger, E. (1991). Situated learning: legitimate peripheral participation. Cambridge [England]; New York: Cambridge University Press.

  • Forward: Hanks, W., Situated learning: legitimate peripheral participation (p. 13-24)
  • Ch. 1: Lave, J. & Wenger, E., Legitimate peripheral participation (p.27-43)

(SI-S1) Lave, J, Murtaugh, M. & de la Rocha, O. (1984). The dialectic of arithmetic in grocery shopping. In B. Rogoff & J. Lave (Eds.), Everyday cognition. Its development in social context. London: Harvard University Press. (See (pp. 67-94) quotes here: http://www.ikaras.org/lc_dc_material_distribution.php)

[edit] Wicked Problems

Rittel, Horst W. J.; Webber, Melvin M. (1973). Dilemmas in a General Theory of Planning. Policy Sciences 4, 155-169.

Wolf, T. V., Rode, J. A., Sussman, J., and Kellogg, W. A. 2006. Dispelling "design" as the black art of CHI. In Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (Montréal, Québec, Canada, April 22 - 27, 2006). R. Grinter, T. Rodden, P. Aoki, E. Cutrell, R. Jeffries, and G. Olson, Eds. CHI '06. ACM, New York, NY, 521-530. DOI= http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1124772.1124853

[edit] Equivocality vs. Uncertainty

(SI-F) Daft, R.L. & Lengel, R.H. (1986), Organizational information requirements, media richness and structural design. Management Science: 32(5), 554-571.

Weick, Karl E. (1979) The Social Psychology of Organizing. Second Edition. Reading, MA, USA: Addison-Wesley.


[edit] Tragedy of the Commons

(SI-F) Kollock, P. & Smith, M.A. (1996), Managing the virtual commons: Cooperation and conflict in computer communities. In S. Herring (Ed.), Computer-mediated communication: linguistic, social, and cross-cultural perspectives (p. 109-128). Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

Benkler, Y. (2002) Coase’s penguin, or, Linux and the nature of the firm. Yale Law Journal, 112, 369-446.

(SI-F) Benkler, Y. (2004). Sharing nicely: On sharable goods and the emergence of sharing as a modality of economic production. Yale Law Journal, 114, 273–358.

[edit] Communities of Practice (CoP)

(SI-F) Wenger, E. (1998). Communities of practice: learning, meaning, and identity. Cambridge, U.K.; New York, N.Y., Cambridge University Press: 72-85.

(SI-F) Wenger, E., McDermott, R., & Snyder, W. (2002), Cultivating communities of practice: a guide to managing knowledge, Boston, Mass.: Harvard Business School Press.

(SI-F) Davenport, E. and Hall, H. (2002). Organizational knowledge and communities of practice, Annual Review of Information Science and Technology, 36:171-227.

[edit] Goal Setting Theory

Locke, Edwin A.; Latham, Gary P. (2002). Building a Practically Useful Theory of Goal Setting and Task Motivation: A 35-Year Odyssey. American Psychologist. 57(9), 705-717.

[edit] Phenomena Explaining Theoretical Constructs

[edit] Innovation & Technology Diffusion Theory; Adoption Theory

(SI-F) Markus, M. L. (1990). Toward a "Critical Mass" Theory of Interactive Media. In In J. Fulk & C.W. Steinfield (Eds.), Organizations and Communication Technology. Newbury Park, CA: Sage Publications, 194-218.

(SI-F) Markus, M. Lynne (1987). Toward a "critical mass" theory of interactive media: Universal access, interdependence, and diffusion. Communication Research, 14(5):491-511.

(SI-F) Rogers, E. M. (1995). Diffusion of Innovation. Free Press, 4th edition. (1-38???)

(SI-F) Rogers, E. (2003). Diffusion of Innovation, 5th ed. New York: Free Press. (1-38???)

  • Preface???

(SI-S1) James Burke lectures drawn from The Knowledge Web: From Electronic Agents to Stonehenge and Back, Simon and Schuster.

(SI-S1) The Knowledge Web Burke's website on innovation

(SI-S1) Communication Theory/Diffusion of Innovations From Wikibooks, the open-content textbooks collection; a summary of the diffsuion paradigm developed by Everett M. Rogers

(SI-S1) The Concerns-Based Adoption Model (CBAM): A Model for Change in Individuals by Susan Loucks-Horsley

(SI-S1) Innovation and Social Change Chapter 1 (pp. 9-32 in Network-based classrooms: Promises and realities, edited by Bertram C. Bruce, Joy K. Peyton, and Trent W. Batson, Cambridge University Press, NY, 1993

(SI-S1) Educational Reform: How Does Technology Affect Educational Change? in Bruce, B. C. (Ed.), Literacy in the information age: Inquiries into meaning making with new technologies, International Reading Association, Newark, DE, 2003

[edit] Digital Divide/Race/Effective Use

(SI-F) van Dijk, J. and Hacker, K. (2003). The digital divide as a complex and dynamic phenomenon. The Information Society, 19(4):315-326.

(SI-F) Gurstein, Michael (2003). Effective Use: A community informatics strategy beyond the Digital Divide. First Monday, 8(12). http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue8_12/gurstein/index.html

(SI-F) Hoffman, D. L. and Novak, T. P. 1998. “Bridging the Digital Divide: The Impact of Race on Computer Access and Internet Use”. Project 2000 Working Paper, Owen Graduate School, Vanderbilt University. Available at http://elab.vanderbilt.edu/research/papers/pdf/manuscripts/DigitalDivideFeb1998-pdf.pdf. Accessed March 12, 2002.

(SI-F) Hall, P. (1999). "Changing geographies: Technology and income". In Schön, Mitchell, and Sanyal, Eds. High Technology and Low Income Communities. Cambridge: MIT Press. 43-68

(SI-F) Hoffman, D. L., T. P. Novak, et al. (1998). "Diversity on the Internet: the relationship of race to access and usage". In A. Garmer, ed. Investing in Diversity: Advancing Opportunities for Minorities and the Media. Washington, D.C., The Aspen Institute.

(SI-F) NTIA (1995). "Falling through the net: a survey of the 'have nots' in rural and urban America". Falling Through the Net. Washington, DC, National Telecommunications and Information Administration.

(SI-F) NTIA (1998). "Falling through the net II: new data on the digital divide". Falling Through the Net. Washington, DC, National Telecommunications and Information Administration.

(SI-F) NTIA (1999). "Falling through the net: defining the digital divide". Falling Through the Net. Washington, DC, National Telecommunications and Information Administration.

(SI-F) Sterne, J. (2000). "The computer race goes to class: how computers in schools helped shape the racial topography of the internet". In Beth Kolko, Lisa Nakamura, and Gilbert Rodman (Eds.) Race in Cyberspace. New York: Routledge. 191-212.

(SI-S1) Dutton, W. (2004). Social transformation in an information society: Rethinking access to you and the world. Paris : UNESCO.


[edit] Bounded rationality

  1. Simon, H. (1957). Models of Man. Wiley, New York.
  2. Simon, H. (1962). The architecture of complexity. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, 26, 467-482.
  3. Simon, H. (1991). Cognitive Architectures in a rational analysis: comment. In K. VanLehn (ed.), Architectures for Intelligence, pp. 25-39, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Hillsdale, N.J.

The following sources (in this section) are from Wikipedia. I have no idea which are good, and which ones are not.

  • Jon Elster (1983). Sour Grapes: Studies in the Subversion of Rationality. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
  • Gigerenzer, G. & Selten, R. (2002). Bounded Rationality.Cambridge: The MIT Press; reprint edition. ISBN 0-262-57164-1
  • Kahneman, Daniel (2003). Maps of bounded rationality: psychology for behavioral economics. The American Economic Review. 93(5). pp. 1449-1475
  • March, James G. (1994). A Primer on Decision Making: How Decisions Happen. New York: The Free Press.
  • Simon, Herbert (1957). "A Behavioral Model of Rational Choice", in Models of Man, Social and Rational: Mathematical Essays on Rational Human Behavior in a Social Setting. New York: Wiley.
  • Simon, Herbert (1990). A mechanism for social selection and successful altruism, Science 250 (4988): 1665-1668.
  • Tisdell, Clem (1996). Bounded Rationality and Economic Evolution: A Contribution to Decision Making, Economics, and Management. Cheltenham, UK; Brookfield, Vt.: Edward Elgar.
  • Williamson, Oliver (1981). The economies of organization: the transaction cost approach. American Journal of Sociology 87: 548-577.


[edit] Network Egg

(closer ties with richer media, weaker ties with weaker media)

Haythornthwaite, C. (1999). A social network theory of tie strength and media use: A framework for evaluating multi-level impacts of new media. Technical report, University of Illinois, Champaign, IL. (alexia.lis.uiuc.edu/~haythorn/sna_theory.html)



[edit] Other Theoretical Constructs

This is a catch-all section for other kinds of theoretical constructs, or for theoretical constructs which don't cleanly fit into the above.

[edit] Field Theory (Lewin)

http://www.sonoma.edu/users/d/daniels/lewinnotes.html

[edit] Symbolic Interactionism

Park? George Meade? Bloomer?

[edit] Semiotics

[edit] Complex Adaptive Systems

http://www.casresearch.com/

[edit] Other Theories to be Added Later

These are theories which ought to be on this list, but which I have not added due to time constraints.

Social Presence

Organizational Learning

Reciprocity

Contagin Theories

Epidemiology of Ideas

Transitivity Theory

Transitive Closure

Social Support Theories (wellman)

Electronic Propinquity

Information Richness

Boundary Theory


[edit] Other Possibly Related Theories

I'm not sure if all of these are actually theories, but I have seen them referenced on occasion, so here they are in case they are relevant:

Industrial Ecology

Communication Theory

Group theory

Biotic communities

Food webs

Community ecology

Ecosystems ecology

Systems ecology

Energetics

Sociocybernetics

Graph Theory


[edit] Theory Comparison & Theorizing

(SI-F, SI-S1) Nardi, Bonnie A. (1996). Studying Context: A comparison of activity theory, situated action models, and distributed cognition. In Nardi, Bonnie A. (Ed.) Context and Consciousness: Activity Theory and Human-Computer Interaction, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, p. 69-102.

Halverson, C. (2002). Activity Theory and Distributed Cognition: Or What Does CSCW Need to DO with Theories? Computer Supported Cooperative Work 11(1-2), 243-267.

Nardi, B.A. (2002). Coda and response to Christine Halverson. Computer Supported Cooperative Work 11(1/2), 269-275.

(SI-S1) Wanda J. Orlikowski and C. Suzanne Iacono, "Research Commentary: Desperately Seeking the "IT" in IT Research--A Call to Theorizing the IT Artifact." Information Systems Research 12(2), pp. 121-134, June 2001.

Crowston, Kevin (2000). Process as theory in information systems research. In The IFIP WG 8.2 International Conference: The Social and Organizational Perspective on Research and Practice in Information Technology. Aalborg, Denmark.


(SI-S1) (Simon/Suchman/Agre etc. debates in Cognitive Science in the mid-1990s?)




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