Rob Kling Explained

Rob Kling (August 1944 – 15 May 2003) was a North American professor of information systems and information science at the School of Library and Information Science (SLIS) and adjunct professor of computer science, Indiana University, United States. He directed the interdisciplinary Center for Social Informatics (CSI), at Indiana University.[1] He is considered to have been a key founder of social analyses of computing[2] and a leading expert on the study of social informatics.[3]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Rob Kling Center for Social Informatics. Indiana University. 24 November 2012. dead. https://archive.today/20121212055830/http://rkcsi.indiana.edu/About/RobKling.shtml. 12 December 2012.
  2. Wellmann, Barry & Hiltz, Starr Roxanne (2004). "Sociological Rob: How Rob Kling Brought Computing and Sociology Together", The Information Society, 20(2)
  3. Robbin, Alice (2007). "Rob Kling In Search of One Good Theory", The Information Society, 23(4)