Editing Social informatics (section)

==Future==
Social informatics is a young intellectual movement and its future is still being defined.  However, because SST theorists such as [[Robin Williams (academic)|Williams]] and Edge suggest that the [[amorphous]] boundaries between humans and technology that emerge in social shaping technology research indicate that technology is not a distinct social endeavor worthy of individual study,<ref name="WilliamsEdge1996" /> indicating that there is a need for social informatics research that bridges the gap between technological and social [[determinism]].  This observation, coupled with the many fields that contribute research, suggest a future in which social informatics theories and concepts settle to form a substrate, an "indispensable analytical foundation"<ref name="Kling2000a" /> for work in other disciplines. Such foundations can be found in social informatics frameworks such as The Web of Computing perspective or Socio-Technical Interaction Networks.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Kling|first=Rob|date=2003|title=A bit more to it: scholarly communication forums as socio-technical interaction networks.|journal=Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology|volume=54|pages=47–67|doi=10.1002/asi.10154}}</ref>

Relevant topics about future direction of social informatics are discussed in the book by Fichman and Rosenbaum.<ref name="FichmanRosenbaum2014" /> Conceptualization of international discourse, including current trends in research and direction of social informatics development is presented in an article by Smutny.<ref name="Smutny2016" /> This article discusses current possibilities of development of social informatics within the international discourse of various concepts including possible areas for future cooperation. Other topical article by Marcinkowski<ref name="Marcinkowski2016">{{cite journal|last1=Marcinkowski|first1=Michael|title=Data, Ideology, and the Developing Critical Program of Social Informatics|journal=Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology|date=2016|volume=67|issue=5|pages=1266–1275|doi=10.1002/asi.23483|s2cid=22109515|url=http://researchspace.bathspa.ac.uk/7592/1/7592.pdf}}</ref> presents a perspective shift from studying only the effects of the implementation and use of technology to the primary discussion of what are the ideological implications of empirical work in social informatics connected with data analytics approach.