Social media intersects across physical spaces, digital infrastructures, and social
subjectivities in terms of what is being called the “postdigital,” in an increasingly merging …

Preface xi societal problem. Television, social media, and publications have interrogated the
topic with memorable headlines. Yet, not all of the information on bullying is anecdotal or …

Purpose This chapter discusses the application of community informatics (CI) principles in
the rural Southern and Central Appalachian (SCA) region to further the teaching of …

This thesis addresses the question: What implications do ICTs, and their related techno-
social contexts, have on expanding the scope of collaborative research and information …

Today's decision management systems focus on supporting selected decisions rather than
including and linking pre-and post-decision information, that is, big data. The purpose of this …

Method. Literature searches on activity theory, the systems and ecological approaches
combined with information behaviour and information retrieval systems and information …

The industrialisation of the food system that favours efficiency and highest yield, also came
at the expense of small farmers' livelihoods, autonomy and traditional ways of living and …