Getting Started with Informatics

Recommended Readings on Informatics and Information Technology

• Kling, R. (1999). What is Social Informatics and Why Does it Matter? D-Lib Magazine, 5(1). Retrieved November 17, 2006, from http://www.dlib.org/dlib/january99/kling/01kling.html.

• Kling, R., & Star, S.L. (1998). Human centered systems in the perspective of organizational and social informatics. ACM SIGCAS Computers and Society, 28(1), 22-29. Retrieved November 17, 2006, from http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/277351.277356.

• Kinf, R., Rosenbaum, H. & Sawyer, S. (2005). Understanding and Communicating Social Informatics: A Framework for Studying and Teaching the Human Contexts of Information and Communication Technologies(Buy the book)

• Day. R, Hara, N., & Robbins, A. (2005). Social Informatics Education in I-schools

• Berners-Lee, T. (1998). Semantic Web Roadmap. http://www.w3.org/DesignIssues/Semantic.html

• Bush, V. (1945). 'As we may think' Atlantic Monthly 176 (1) (July), pp. 101-8. http://www.theatlantic.com/unbound/flashbks/computer/bushf.htm  

• Lesk, Michael. (1997) How Much Information Is There In the World? http://www.lesk.com/mlesk/ksg97/ksg.html

• Lyman, P and Varian, H. (2000) How Much Information? The Journal of Electronic Publishing, 6(2). ISSN 1080-2711 http://www.press.umich.edu/jep/06-02/lyman.html

• Machlup, F. and Mansfield U. (eds.), (1983) The study of information: Interdisciplinary messages. John Wiley & Sons.

• Graves, J.R. and Corcoran, S. (1989) ‘The Study of Nursing Informatics’, Image: Journal of Nursing Scholarship, 21, pp. 227—31 http://www.nih.gov/ninr/research/vol4/Overview.html 

Relevant Websites

Here's a list of blogs, online magazines and newspapers, and other useful websites that regularly feature content related to information studies, information technology, and informatics.

• Technorati Search for 'informatics'
• CiteULike Search for 'informatics'
• Linux Journal
• The Register
• Techdirt
• Wired News
• A List Apart
• Slashdot
• BBC News > Technology > World Edition
• The Shifted Librarian
• David Rothman, Medical Librarian
• Librarians' Internet Index
• WebJunction
• To get you started on essential informatics, information technology blogs, check out the ASIST student chapter blogroll ( http://rpc.bloglines.com/blogroll?html=1&id=ucla-asist )

Directory searches

• VoS - Voice of the Shuttle: Science, Technology & Culture
• DMOZ Search for 'informatics'
• Google (2006) http://www.google.com/search?q=informatics 

Full-text journal searches (publicly available)

• Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, 2001-present
• Journal of New Media and Culture, 2002-2005
• First Monday
• Science Studies, 1998-present
• Technology Studies, 1996-present
• Current Cities, an annotated bibliography of selected articles, books, and digital documents on information technology

Full-text journal searches (subscription required)

• Information Communication and Society, 1998-present
• History and Technology, 2002-present
• Metascience, 2003-present
• Perspectives on Science, 1998-present
• Public Understanding of Science, 1992-present
• Science as Culture, 2000-present
• Science and Public Policy, 1999-present
• Science in Context, 2001-present
• Science, Technology, and Human Values 1978-2001
• Science, Technology, and Human Values, 1999-present
• Social Epistemology, 1999-present
• Social Studies of Science, 1975-2001
• Social Studies of Science, 1999-present
• Technology and Culture, 1998-present
• Technology in Society, 1979-present