Editing Social informatics (section)

==In education==
Social informatics is also about teaching social issues of computing to computer science students.<ref name="KlingJewett1996">{{cite book|last1=Kling|first1=Rob|last2=Jewett|first2=Tom|title=The Social Design of Worklife with Computers and Networks: An Open Natural Systems Perspective|journal=Advances in Computers|date=1994|volume=39|pages=239–293|doi=10.1016/S0065-2458(08)60381-2|url=http://escholarship.org/uc/item/13m1k4jg|accessdate=1 September 2016|isbn=9780120121397}}</ref> Depending on educational traditions, social informatics is scattered in the curriculum of different disciplines, as well as in [[computer science]], information science, [[informatics (academic field)|informatics]] (Europe) and web sociology.<ref name="Kling2007" /> In some instances there might be a lack of understanding of why teaching social issues of computing is important, both by individual lecturers and students, resulting in a view that social informatics is boring and without importance.<ref name="Godejord2007">{{cite journal|last1=Godejord|first1=Per Arne|title=Fighting child pornography: Exploring didactics and student engagement in social informatics|journal=Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology|date=2007|volume=58|issue=3|pages=446–451|doi=10.1002/asi.20522}}</ref> Some researchers have pointed out that in order to create awareness of the importance of social issues of computing, one has to focus on [[didactics]] of social informatics.<ref name="Godejord2007" />