The importance of socio‐emotional considerations in online communities, social informatics, and information science

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adam Worrall ◽  
Alicia Cappello ◽  
Rachel Osolen
Keyword(s):  
Online Communities ◽  
Information Science ◽  
Social Informatics

scholarly journals Public Diplomacy in the Digital Age

2019 ◽  
Vol 14 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 83-101 ◽  
Author(s):  
Corneliu Bjola ◽  
Jennifer Cassidy ◽  
Ilan Manor
Keyword(s):  
Online Communities ◽  
Public Diplomacy ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Digital Age ◽  
Public Communication ◽  
Social Informatics ◽  
The Future ◽  
Domestic Affairs

Summary As data fast become the ‘new oil’, the opportunities for public diplomacy to grow as a field of practice are real and game-changing. Drawing on social informatics research, this article seeks to advance our understanding of how digital technologies shape the context in which public diplomacy operates by reshaping the medium of public communication, blurring the boundary between foreign and domestic affairs and empowering new actors. Despite inevitable challenges, the future of public diplomacy in the digital age remains bright, as digital technologies create tremendous opportunities for public diplomacy to build stronger, more diverse and more enduring bridges between offline and online communities.

Incorporating Social Informatics into the Curriculum for Library and Information Science Professionals

Libri ◽  
1998 ◽  
Vol 48 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
MERRI BETH LAVAGNINO ◽  
GEOFFREY C. BOWKER ◽  
P. BRYAN HEIDORN ◽  
MINDY MIRON BASI
Keyword(s):  
Information Science ◽  
Library And Information Science ◽  
Social Informatics

Artificial intelligence and mobile apps for mental healthcare: a social informatics perspective

2020 ◽  
Vol 72 (4) ◽  
pp. 509-523
Author(s):  
Alyson Gamble
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Artificial Intelligence ◽  
Information Science ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Mobile Apps ◽  
Mental Healthcare ◽  
Science Research ◽  
Theory Approach ◽  
Social Informatics ◽  
Content Type

PurposeFor decades, artificial intelligence (AI) has been utilized within the field of mental healthcare. This paper aims to examine AI chatbots, specifically as offered through mobile applications for mental healthcare (MHapps), with attention to the social implications of these technologies. For example, AI chatbots in MHapps are programmed with therapeutic techniques to assist people with anxiety and depression, but the promise of this technology is tempered by concerns about the apps' efficacy, privacy, safety and security.Design/methodology/approachUtilizing a social informatics perspective, a literature review covering MHapps, with a focus on AI chatbots was conducted from the period of January–April 2019. A borrowed theory approach pairing information science and social work was applied to analyze the literature.FindingsRising needs for mental healthcare, combined with expanding technological developments, indicate continued growth of MHapps and chatbots. While an AI chatbot may provide a person with a place to access tools and a forum to discuss issues, as well as a way to track moods and increase mental health literacy, AI is not a replacement for a therapist or other mental health clinician. Ultimately, if AI chatbots and other MHapps are to have a positive impact, they must be regulated, and society must avoid techno-fundamentalism in relation to AI for mental health.Originality/valueThis study adds to a small but growing body of information science research into the role of AI in the support of mental health.

scholarly journals Toward Collaborative Evidence Based Information Practices: Organisation and Leadership Essentials

2010 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 17 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anita Mirijamdotter
Keyword(s):  
Information Science ◽  
Library And Information Science ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
Potential Contribution ◽  
Social Informatics ◽  
Information Practices ◽  
Information Practice

This commentary is based on my key note for the EBLIP conference held in 2009 in Stockholm, Sweden. The title was: Bridging the gap between users and systems – the potential contribution of Social Informatics to Evidence Based Library and Information Practice. In the following commentary, I focus on the application of social informatics principles to develop a collaborative evidence based approach grounded in shared workplace leadership. My remarks highlight some main contributions from the field of library and information science and social informatics and conclude with implications for practice, including further research.

scholarly journals Visualizing Domain Coherence: Social Informatics as a Case Study

2013 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 49 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lori Ann Rung Hoeffner ◽  
Richard P Smiraglia
Keyword(s):  
Information Science ◽  
Past Research ◽  
Social Informatics ◽  
Computer Mediation ◽  
Methodological Approaches ◽  
Citation Practices ◽  
American Society ◽  
Prolific Authors ◽  
Areas Of Interest

Using bibliometric methods of inquiry, one of the eleven approaches of domain-analytic research offered by HjØrland (2002), we were able to visualize the emerging field of social informatics (SI). Past research has demonstrated the breadth and depth of biblometric tools by investigating a variety of research communities (White and Griffith 1981; Tsay 1989; McCain 1991; Borgman and Rice 1992; White and McCain 1998; Smiraglia 2006, 2009, Moore 2007; Jank 2010). Using the published literature produced in SI from 1997 through 2009, allowed visualization of domain-coherence in SI. Concepts that were utilized by which to measure domain coherence include the number of ideas espoused (Collins 1998, 42), scholarly productivity (Crane 1972), and the number of scholars participating (Price 1986; Collins 1998). In this lightning paper based on a recent dissertation (Hoeffner 2012) we will present a visualization based on the analysis of social informatics’ literature, showing growth in publication productivity, evidence of intellectually and socially connected scholars, reliance on scholars from within the fields of information science, and computer science, and two or three topical areas of interest that pertained to communication and aspects of computer mediation, as well as policy and access. Discourse among scholars was evident, and although the Journal of the American Society for Information Science & Technology overwhelming published the largest number of SI work, there was representation in a few key journals. Author co-citation patterns revealed a core group of scholars commonly cited together, and an investigation of self-citation practices revealed slightly less evidence among SI’s most prolific authors than in science overall. Recently, Smiraglia (2012) defined a domain as “a domain is a group with an ontological base that reveals an underlying teleology, a set of common hypotheses, epistemological consensus on methodological approaches, and social semantics.” Our visualization demonstrates continued coherence of SI as a domain.

Health and Medical Informatics Education

1994 ◽  
Vol 33 (03) ◽  
pp. 246-249 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. Haux ◽  
F. J. Leven ◽  
J. R. Moehr ◽  
D. J. Protti
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Health Information ◽  
Medical Informatics ◽  
Health Informatics ◽  
Information Science ◽  
Management Program ◽  
Science Program ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Academic Degree ◽  
The University

Abstract:Health and medical informatics education has meanwhile gained considerable importance for medicine and for health care. Specialized programs in health/medical informatics have therefore been established within the last decades.This special issue of Methods of Information in Medicine contains papers on health and medical informatics education. It is mainly based on selected papers from the 5th Working Conference on Health/Medical Informatics Education of the International Medical Informatics Association (IMIA), which was held in September 1992 at the University of Heidelberg/Technical School Heilbronn, Germany, as part of the 20 years’ celebration of medical informatics education at Heidelberg/Heilbronn. Some papers were presented on the occasion of the 10th anniversary of the health information science program of the School of Health Information Science at the University of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. Within this issue, programs in health/medical informatics are presented and analyzed: the medical informatics program at the University of Utah, the medical informatics program of the University of Heidelberg/School of Technology Heilbronn, the health information science program at the University of Victoria, the health informatics program at the University of Minnesota, the health informatics management program at the University of Manchester, and the health information management program at the University of Alabama. They all have in common that they are dedicated curricula in health/medical informatics which are university-based, leading to an academic degree in this field. In addition, views and recommendations for health/medical informatics education are presented. Finally, the question is discussed, whether health and medical informatics can be regarded as a separate discipline with the necessity for specialized curricula in this field.In accordance with the aims of IMIA, the intention of this special issue is to promote the further development of health and medical informatics education in order to contribute to high quality health care and medical research.

Medical Diagnosis from a Clinician’s Point of View

1978 ◽  
Vol 17 (01) ◽  
pp. 28-35
Author(s):  
F. T. De Dombal
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Data Analysis ◽  
Computer Science ◽  
Medical Diagnosis ◽  
Information Science ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Joint Research ◽  
The World

This paper discusses medical diagnosis from the clinicians point of view. The aim of the paper is to identify areas where computer science and information science may be of help to the practising clinician. Collection of data, analysis, and decision-making are discussed in turn. Finally, some specific recommendations are made for further joint research on the basis of experience around the world to date.

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