This assignment requires the student to read and summarize various articles related to social informatics, technological determinism, and ubiquitous computing.

Week 2: Readings
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Kling, R. (2007). What is social informatics and why does it matter? D-Lib Magazine, 5(1). http://doi.org/10.1045/january99‐kling
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Sanfillippo, M., & Fichman, P. (2013).  The evolution of social informatics research (1984-2013): Challenges and opportunities.  In P. Fichman & H. Rosenbaum (Eds.), Social informatics: Past, present and future. Retrieved from http://eprints.rclis.org/20331
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Norman, D. A. (1997). The invisible computer. Chapter 7: Being analog. Retrieved from 
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Week 3: Readings
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Baym, N. (2010). Personal connections in the digital age. Technological determinism (pp. 24-28). Malden, MA: Polity.
Pinch, T. J. & W. E. Bijker. (1987). The social construction of facts and artifacts: Or how the sociology of science and the sociology of technology might benefit each other. In W. E. Bijker, T. P. Hughes, & T. J. Pinch (Eds.), The Social Construction of Technological Systems: New Directions in the Sociology and History of Technology (pp. 28-50). Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press
Week 5: Readings
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Edwards, W. K., & Grinter, R. E. (2001). At home with ubiquitous computing: Seven challenges. In G. D. Abowd, B. Brumitt, & S. Shafer (Eds.), Ubicomp ‘01 Proceedings of the 3rd international conference on Ubiquitous Computing (pp. 256-272). London, UK: Springer-Verlag. 
Boell, S. K., Campbell, J., Cecez-Kecmanovic, D., & Cheng, J. E. (2013). The transformative nature of telework: A review of the literature. In Americas’ Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS) 2013 Proceedings. Red Hook, NY: Curran Associates.   
Goffman, E. (1956). The presentation of self in everyday life. Introduction (Links to an external site.)Open this document with ReadSpeaker docReader Links to an external site. (pp. 1-9). New York, NY: Doubleday. 

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