Hazel Hall's inaugural professorial lecture, presented at Craiglockhart campus, Edinburgh Napier University, 15 March 2012. A video summary of the lecture filmed in May 2012 is also available at http://vimeo.com/50979144.
ESRC Scottish Doctoral Training Centre Information Science
Pathway Training day 13th February 2012
Professor Hazel Hall
Centre for Social InformaticsInstitute for Informatics and
Digital Innovation/School of Computing
Whats so social about informatics?
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Hazel Hall@hazelh
Event hashtag#profhazel
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Social media
Social informatics
Centre for Social Informatics
Enduring behaviours & tools
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Social informatics
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Edinburgh Social Informatics Site
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Exploring real users and real life
Real usersHumans and information technologies create
socio-technical interaction networksHumans are actors and so are
technologies
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Exploring real users and real life
Real usersHumans and information technologies create
socio-technical interaction networksHumans are actors and so are
technologies
Real lifeThe context in which the technologies are situated is
important, e.g.the users of the technology policies that relate to
the use of the technologyresources to support the use of the
technology
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Social media in the 16th century: how Luther went viral
The Economist December 17th 2011
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In short, social informatics researchers study
Relationships between humans and information technologies taking
into account the context in which they interact
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In short, social informatics researchers study
Relationships between humans and information technologies taking
into account the context in which they interact
To understand the impact of information technologies on
organisations and communities, e.g.How information technologies are
used (differently) in particular contextsHow information
technologies bring about change
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Social media
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Fascinating time: intense interest in social media
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Social media combine social & technical
Technology
Social elements
Provides
Add value
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C21st reiving
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So we research social media but as part of a much wider agenda
and as related to our research interests
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Centre for Social Informatics
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Our qualifications include:Accountancy; Business Studies;
Computing; Drama & Theatre Studies; Economics; Energy
Engineering; Fashion Design; Fine Art; French; History; Library
& Information Science; Linguistics; Multimedia; Philosophy;
Political Science; Software Engineering
Our interests and expertise cover:Digital economies; E-democracy
& E-participation; Information Society; Journalism; Knowledge
Management; Library & Information Science; Organisational
Studies; Philosophy; Project Management; Social Media
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Library & Information Science
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Intersection of Information Science, Journalism, and
Philosophy
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E-democracy and E-participation
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Knowledge Management
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Topic
Student
Evolutionof knowledge working in a public sector agency
Louise Rasmussen
Successfactors for organisational systems development
Robert Irvine
Community engagementin the wild to inspire new uses of
technology to increase social inclusion and involve more (diverse)
people in democracy
Ella Taylor-Smith
PhD research - CSI
Knowledge Management
Knowledge & Project Management
E-participation
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PhD research Cross centre/faculty
Topic
Student
CSIwith
Security risk assessment for personal health information
NicoleHazelhoff-Roelfzema
CDCNS
Creating transformational, sustainable and resilient digital
developments in the culturalsector
Hannah Rudman
CID
Organisationallearning, creativity and innovation in
manufacturing industry
Jan Auernhammer
BusinessSchool
Relationships between festivals,live events and communications
technologies
David Jarman
Business School
Information Society
Digital economies
Knowledge Management
Social Media, Knowledge Management
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1. People
2. Communities
3. Technologies
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Desire for community belonging
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Desire to contribute to the community
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Enduring behaviours & tools
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Durham Cathedral
Est. 1093
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Were going forward to the past[The] new world is in some ways an
old world. It is the world from before print.(Pettitt, 2011)
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Professor Hazel Hall
Centre for Social InformaticsInstitute for Informatics and
Digital Innovation/School of Computing
Whats so social about informatics?
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Introduction to organisational research and case studies
Professor Hazel Hall
Institute for Informatics and Digital Innovation/School of
Computing
http://about.me/hazelh
@[email protected]
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Blipfoto journal photo credits
182/365 jigsaw job (18 May 2010) by fomu (Fokko Muller).
Available from fomus daily photo:
http://www.blipfoto.com/entry/573568, accessed 5 March 2012. [Slide
4]All thing bright and twittery (9 July 2011) by SimonJordan.
Available from My world in photos:
http://www.blipfoto.com/entry/1266216, accessed 4 March 2012.
[Slide 3]Allsorts (9 February 2011) by alanpeacock. Available from
Alans Album: http://www.blipfoto.com/entry/961902, accessed 5 March
2012. [Slide 29]Blip Meta (wtf?) Meet (10 March 2012) by LeeAnne.
Available from Daily Wanderings:
http://www.blipfoto.com/entry/1815401, accessed 11 March 2012.
[Slide 37]Below average (29 December 2011) by mooncoin. Available
from The fool on the hill: http://www.blipfoto.com/entry/1621763,
accessed 4 March 2012. [Slide 14]Christmas Cheviot (27 December
2011) by JennyWrenny . Available from My 35th year:
http://www.blipfoto.com/entry/1617632, accessed 5 March 2012.
[Slide 25] Clock watching (14 April 2011) by iamchrisphoto.
Available from iamchris: http://www.blipfoto.com/entry/1092326,
accessed 4 March 2012. [Slide 5]
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Web sites
AboutMe: http://about.me Blipfoto: http://blipfoto.com Broughton
Spurtle: http://www.broughtonspurtle.org.ukCentre for Social
Informatics: http://www.csi.napier.ac.uk/ Facebook:
http://facebook.com Gutenberg parenthesis print, book and
cognition:
http://www.sdu.dk/en/om_sdu/institutter_centre/ilkm/forskning/forskningsprojekter/gutenberg_projektMetro:
http://www.metro.co.uk Phil Bradleys web site: http://philb.com
Professor Hazel Halls publication page:
http://www.soc.napier.ac.uk/~hazelh/esis/hazel_publications.html
Rob Kling Center for Social Informatics: http://rkcsi.indiana.edu/
Thomas Pettitt on the Gutenberg parenthesis:
http://vimeo.com/10705406 Socialnomics:
http://www.socialnomics.net/ (426 video The social media revolution
2012: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0eUeL3n7fDs)
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