社会信息学是近年来在美国迅速兴起的一个新的研究领域 ,主要研究计算机化的社会方面。该领域的发展说明在信息技术迅猛发展和日益普遍应用的今天 ,与之相关的社会问题变得日益突出并已引起人们的关注。社会信息学的正式提出标志着对有关问题的研究将进入一个新的发展阶段 Social informatics is a new field of research that has rapidly emerged in the United States in recent years. It focuses on computerized social aspects. The development in this field shows that with the rapid development of information technology and its increasingly widespread application, the social issues related to it have become increasingly prominent and have drawn people’s attention. The formal proposal of social informatics indicates that the research on related issues will enter a new stage of development