Gunilla Bradley I 2008

Social and Community Informatics - Selected ppt

Doctoral and Master Seminar

April 15- 17 2008

Salzburg University ICT & S Center

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Schedule and Overview

Day 1: April 15 from 10 to 15 Introduction and short presentation of the participants and their ongoing or planned researchIntroduction to social and community informatics Theoretical perspectives on the organisational and psychosocial and life environment and ICT

Reference reading: Bradley 2006, Chapters 1 – 2.

Day 2: April 16 from 10 to 15 ICT and humans – Ongoing changes in the working life: organisational design, work content, and managementOngoing changes in the home and private life – crosscultural perspectiveOngoing changes in communities – virtual and real

Reference reading: Bradley 2006, Chapters 4 – 6.

Day 3: April 17 from 9 to 13 ICT and psychosocial communication (e.g. distributed teams) ICT and stress and health issues From theory to actions: How to achieve the good ICT society – actions on various levels of analysis.

Reference reading: Bradley 2006, Chapters 7 – 9.

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Social and Community InformaticsLecture 1

• Presentation of the participants

• Purpose and Goals of the Course

• Information about Essay/Course report

• Introduction to Social Informatics

– Interplay ICT – Organization – Humans, and Society

– Crossdisciplinary

– Levels of analysis

• Theoretical perspective

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Focus of Research: Interplay ICT - Humans - Society

OrganizationOrganizationCompetenceDevelopmentCompetenceDevelopment

PsychosocialCommunicationPsychosocial

Communication

LeadershipManagementLeadership

Management

NetworkingNetworking

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Urban & Ruralareas

Urban & Ruralareas

IntegrationIntegrationEmploymentEmployment

Qualityof

Life

PrivateRole

ProfessionalRole

CitizensRole

Some key processes:• Psychosocial processes • Convergence processes• Convergence of human roles• Democratic processes• Globalization

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Computer Technology and Work Environment

Bradley’s model 1977

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ICT and Psychosocial Life Environment – the Convergence Model (Bradley´s model 2000)

Future research should focus on ICT and Quality of Life(Psychosocial Life Environment)

Globalization ICT Life Environment Life Role Effects on Humans

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”Round trip model” ODAM Maui – San Diego – San Fransisco - HCII Las Vegas – Europe – (IFIP Slovenia – Åbo – Helsinki – Peking - Salzburg)

Technology

Values,norms

Labor,market

VirtualWorlds

Teletechnology

Computertechnology

Mediatechnology

UbiquitousEmbeddedTechnology

WorkEnvironment

PublicEnviron-

ment

HomeEnviron-

ment

VirtualEnvironments

ProfessionalRole

PrivateRole

Citizens’Role

VirtualRoles

Globalization

ICT Life Environment

Life Role

Effects on

humans

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Focus on effects on Humans

- Identity and Self perception

- Social competence

- Creativity

- Integrity - Privacy

- Trust – Security

- Addictiveness

- Dependency

- Emotionality - Rationality

- Female - Male

- Involvement – Alienation

Multifaceted

Effects on Humans

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Focus on some major Psychosocial Processes as Policy Statements

• Integration or Isolation

• Autonomy or Control

• Overstimulation or Understimulation

• Synergy or Separation of Selves

• Humanisation or Dehumanisation

• E-cooperation (peace) or E-conflicts

(wars)

• Sustainability – humane and

environmental

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Lecture 1: Group Discussions

1. What are the main ICT-related effects on the individual that you observe? Compare “Effects on Humans” in the convergence model. See also IADIS program “Effects on humans” key words http://www.ict-conf.org/

2. When you visit other countries and/or cultures what main observations do you make regarding the attitudes to and use of ICT in peoples life?

3. Start to reflect on: How do you perceive the present and/or future ICT society? Could you with various tools describe main changes in the society using for example (to be reported at the last lecture this week):– Drawings– Photo collage– Graphics– Poems– Charade– Story– Video clips– Installations own or museums– Other tools

• See also IADIS program “Globalization and ICT”and “Desirable Goals” some key words http://www.ict-conf.org/

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Theories on the Information Society (Lecture 2)

How does my theoretical framework relate to sociological theories?

•Continuity -Giddens?•Neo Marxism (Schiller)•Public Sphere (Habermas)•New type of society (Postmodernism)•Network Society Castells?•The Salzburg Approach