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 * Rob Kling** (dob- 2003)

Rob Kling was Professor of Information Science and Information Systems at Indiana University, where he worked with Sasha Barab. Kling directed the Center for Social Informatics, (e.g. Barab, Kling, & Gray, 2004), he was an advocate for cross-disciplinary understanding of the social aspects of online information sharing (e.g. Kling, McKim, & King, 2003).

Rob Kling proposed an approach which he called 'social informatics'.


 * References include**

Barab, S. A., Kling, R., & Gray, J. H. (Eds.). (2004). //Designing virtual communities in the service of learning//

Kling, R., McKim, G., & King, A. (2003). A bit more to it: Scholarly communication forums as socio-technical interaction networks. //Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 54//(1), 47-67.