The dual influence of design and social theory on Informatics in Norway and Scandinavia

• “critical computing”
• “Aarhus”
• informatics as CS in europe? but how different is it? how much more political? (and how different between countries – erik the elder says Very)
• is that what i see informatics as? a politically aware CS? and does political awareness translate into design? -> making statements about how things should *change* [write more about this]
• do i think this should happen in all fields, or is there something particular about computing? [write more about this]
• the potential impact?
• OOP as an outgrowth of of political/critical computing?
• modeling that more fully reflects the full social worldview of the program – users included
• more transparent – leads to easier discussion and greater opportunities for participation
• (erik taking an OOP approach to capstone? -> chunks of the program, not just the algorithm)
• scandinavian object orientation vs. US approach
• US = entity relationships, scandinavian = something else?

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• HISP – Health Information Systems Project: globally distributed, FLOSS, participatory, not always computerized, actor-network theory, Foucalt

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Summary of sorts:

• OO as a way of weighing all of the players and influences, or at least motivated by that desire
• identifying the parts that influence the whole as a means of better understanding how to direct the impact of the system

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