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Artistic Use of Information Technology: Toward a Definition of Literature and Art Informatics

Paling, Stephen (2006) Artistic Use of Information Technology: Toward a Definition of Literature and Art Informatics.

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Abstract

Kling (1999) defined social informatics as "the interdisciplinary study of the design, uses and consequences of information technologies that takes into account their interaction with institutional and cultural contexts" (Kling, 1999). This extended abstract proposes a definition of literature and art informatics (LAI): the interdisciplinary study of the design, uses and consequences of information technologies that takes into account their role in the creative efforts of writers and artists. Expanding social informatics to include creative activities in literature and the arts will benefit the social informatics research community in several ways. First, it will address the paucity of empirical scholarship meant to examine the role of information technology in the creative efforts of writers and artists. Second, it will open another area of inquiry within social informatics which will provide additional opportunities for validating bodies of theory that can usefully inform our scholarship. This abstract will also discuss a current set of studies being conducted as examples of one possible path for LAI research.

EPrint Type:Extended Abstract
Subjects:Digital Humanities
Social Informatics
ID Code:1475
Deposited On:16 September 2006
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