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Gunilla Bradley I 2008
Social and Community Informatics - Selected ppt
Doctoral and Master Seminar
April 15- 17 2008
Salzburg University ICT & S Center
Gunilla Bradley I 2008
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.
Gunilla Bradley I 2008
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
Gunilla Bradley I 2008
Focus of Research: Interplay ICT - Humans - Society
OrganizationOrganizationCompetenceDevelopmentCompetenceDevelopment
PsychosocialCommunicationPsychosocial
Communication
LeadershipManagementLeadership
Management
NetworkingNetworking
I
C
T
Urban & Ruralareas
Urban & Ruralareas
IntegrationIntegrationEmploymentEmployment
Qualityof
Life
PrivateRole
ProfessionalRole
CitizensRole
Some key processes:• Psychosocial processes • Convergence processes• Convergence of human roles• Democratic processes• Globalization
Gunilla Bradley I 2008
Computer Technology and Work Environment
Bradley’s model 1977
Gunilla Bradley I 2008
Gunilla Bradley I 2008
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
Gunilla Bradley I 2008
”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
Gunilla Bradley I 2008
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
Gunilla Bradley I 2008
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
Gunilla Bradley I 2008
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/
Gunilla Bradley I 2008
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