Welcome to the Rob Kling Center for Social Informatics web site, hosted at Indiana University Bloomington, in honor of the late Rob Kling. Among its many activities, the Center supports a speaker series, Ph.D. minor, research support for faculty fellows, the Rob Kling Social Informatics Fellowship, supporting doctoral students research, and travel support for doctoral students.
Professor Pnina Fichman of the Luddy School of Informatics, Computing and Engineering is the Director of the Rob Kling Center for Social Informatics. RKCSI is governed by an Advisory Committee comprised of faculty from various programs at Indiana University, who support the activities of the center, its Faculty Research Fellows and the Doctoral Group. Graduate students who are interested in social informatics at Indiana University, Bloomington should consider joining the doctoral student group, sponsored by the Rob Kling Center for Social Informatics. This group hosts both social and academic events to support students across departmental boundaries.
Social Informatcis (SI) refers to the study of social aspects of computerization, including the role of information technology in social and organizational change, the use of information technologies in social contexts, and the way that the social organization of information technologies is influenced by social forces and social practices.