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What is Social Informatics and Why Does it Matter?
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Originally published in D-Lib Magazine, January, 1999. Available at http://www.dlib.org/dlib/january99/kling/01kling.html Reprinted with permission. A serviceable working conception of “social info...
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- Authors
- Kling, R.
- Venue
- D-Lib Magazine
- Publisher
- CNRI Acct
- Published
- 1999-01
- Volume
- 5
- Issue
- 1
- ISSN
- 1082-9873 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W1980953150
- Cited by
- 290
- References
- 30
- FWCI
- 58.39
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- diamond
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