Social Science, Technical Systems, and Cooperative Work

Download or read book Social Science, Technical Systems, and Cooperative Work written by Geoffrey C. Bowker and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The "great divide" between the approaches of systems developers and those of the social scientists to computer supported cooperative work has been vigorously debated in the systems development literature. In spite of their differences in style, the two groups have been cooperating more and more in the last decade, as the "people problems" associated with computing become increasingly evident to everyone. This book is the first to address directly the problem of how to bridge the divide. It offers an exciting overview of the cutting edge of research and theory, and will constitute a solid foundation for the rapidly coalescing field of social informatics.