Social science, technical systems, and cooperative work
Subtitle: beyond the great divide
By: edited by Geoffrey C. Bowker ... [et al.].
Contributors: Bowker, Geoffrey C.
Series: Computers, cognition, and work
Publisher: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Mahwah, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 470
Subjects: Teams in the workplace -- Data processing; Social sciences
Description: The "great divide" between the approaches of systems developers and those of 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.