Sökning: "Social Informatics"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 157 avhandlingar innehållade orden Social Informatics.
1. Shared Virtual Environments : Technology, Social Interaction, and Adaptation over Time
Sammanfattning : This thesis investigates social interaction and adaptation over time in shared virtual environments. Shared virtual environments (SVEs) are computer generated 3D graphical spaces where geographically distributed people can meet and interact with each other in a graphical space. LÄS MER
2. Developing child protection strategies: a critical study of offenders’ use of information technology for the sexual exploitation of children
Sammanfattning : The overall aim of this thesis is to critically explore offenders’ use of information technology for the sexual exploitation of children, focusing upon child abusive material and grooming, in relation to the societal response, i.e. legal and technological regulation models. LÄS MER
3. Tinkering Care Moves : Senior Home Care in Practice
Sammanfattning : This dissertation builds on the current anthropological studies of care relations in practice. It draws inspiration from science and technology studies (STS) and postfeminist technoscience. A qualitative ethnographic approach grounds the empirical data collection and analysis. LÄS MER
4. Prometheus at the wheel : Representations of road transport informatics
Sammanfattning : The dissertation deals with the challenge of developing information technology for road transport, a field often referred to as Road Transport Informatics. Oskar Juhlin studies in particular how engineers cope with the contingent and social aspects of the design process and of road use. LÄS MER
5. Lifelong learning : The social impact of digital villages as community resource centres on disadvantaged women
Sammanfattning : The overall aim of this research was to enhance the understanding of what affects the social impact of ICT in lifelong learning on disadvantaged women.In contributing to the field of social informatics, this research employs behavioural theories as strategy and analytic possibilities. LÄS MER