[Air-l] social informatics history

[C. Courtright]

Rob Kling's home page is also still online at 
<http://www.slis.indiana.edu/faculty/kling/>. It contains scads of 
publications, including the 210-page report from the 1997 NSF-sponsored 
conference that Barry mentions 
<http://www.slis.indiana.edu/SI/Arts/SI_report_Aug_14.doc>.

Christina Courtright

Barry Wellman wrote:

> Rob Kling organized a seminal conference,
> Advances in Organizational and Social Informatics Workshop, Indiana Univ.,
> Bloomington, Nov. 1997. It helped to define the field and identify its
> proper label. Many smart and leading people were there.
> 
> Rob is dead now, alas, but my guess is that if you google on this
> conference or go to the IU School of Information website you should find
> some useful stuff. Which raises the ghoulish question: Does Rob's website
> live on after him.[Which further reminds me that I was Judy Merril's email
> executor for 3 months after she passed away.]
> 
>  Barry