Social Study of Information Systems

The Social Study of Information Systems (SSIS) is interested in people developing and using technology and the "culture" of those people.

SSIS studies these phenomena by drawing on and using "lenses" provided by social sciences, including philosophy, sociology, social psychology, organisational theory, political science.

Key Universities involved in SSIS are: the London School of Economics (LSE), Lancaster University, University of Manchester University of Warwick, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), University of Salford, Case Western Reserve University, the University of Cambridge, Edinburgh University, Harvard University, and Peking University.

High profile people in the field are Claudio Ciborra, Jannis Kallinikos, Chrisanthi Avgerou, Susan Scott, Tony Cornford, Edgar Whitley and Shirin Madon (LSE), Wanda Orlikowski (MIT), Shoshana Zuboff (Harvard), Mike Chaisson, Niall Hayes, Lucas Introna & Lucy Suchman (Lancaster),Debra Howcroft & Chris Westrup (Manchester), Joe Nandhakumar (Warwick), Wendy Currie (Greenwich), Geoff Walsham, Mathew Jones & Michael Barrett (Cambridge), Richard Boland (Case Western), Kalle Lyytinen (Case Western), Rob Kling (Indiana University),Robert Davidson (City University of Hong Kong ), and Qiu Zeqi (PKU).

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