INFORMATICS
Charles François (2004). INFORMATICS, International Encyclopedia of Systems and Cybernetics, 2(1): 1651.
| Collection | International Encyclopedia of Systems and Cybernetics |
|---|---|
| Year | 2004 |
| Vol. (num.) | 2(1) |
| ID | ◀ 1651 ▶ |
| Object type | Discipline oriented |
Everything that has to see with information processing by digital computers.
This term is used mainly in Europe and in Latin America (“Inform-tica”)
K. KRIPPENDORFF writes that Informatics “includes (the largely U.S.) computer science, the more application oriented efforts of management information systems, automation of production but also data processing including statistics for decision making”.
He adds: “Because of its technological commitments, informatics has desemphasized the study of information flows and computation within organisms and largely ignored the organizational consequences of information flows, human communication and the use of computers in large social systems” (1986, p.38).