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Social Sciences and Humanities

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65
Citations
17941
World Ranking
1026
National Ranking
478

Engineering and Technology

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63
Citations
17424
World Ranking
1731
National Ranking
558

Overview

Rob Kling is affiliated with Indiana University in the United States. Their academic profile indicates an engagement primarily within this institution, which provides a context for their research activities and scholarly contributions.

The data available does not include recent papers, coauthors, publication venues, fields of study, subfields, or main topics of work. There is no record of book publications or awards attributed to Rob Kling in the current dataset.

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Best Publications

  • Social Analyses of Computing: Theoretical Perspectives in Recent Empirical Research

    Rob Kling

  • Reconceptualizing users as social actors in information systems research

    Roberta Lamb;Rob Kling

  • The Web of Computing: Computer Technology as Social Organization

    Rob Kling;Walt Scacchi

  • Students' frustrations with a Web-based distance education course

    Noriko Hara;Rob Kling

  • Designing for Virtual Communities in the Service of Learning

    Sasha Barab;Rob Kling;James H. Gray;Roy Pea

  • What Is Social Informatics and Why Does It Matter

    Rob Kling

  • Students' Distress with a Web-based Distance Education Course:

    Noriko Hara;Rob Kling

  • Learning About Information Technologies and Social Change: The Contribution of Social Informatics

    Rob Kling

  • Computerization and controversy: value conflicts and social choices

    Charles Dunlop;Rob Kling

  • Does technology drive history? The dilemma of technological determinism

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  • Not just a matter of time: field differences and the shaping of electronic media in supporting scientific communication

    Rob Kling;Geoffrey McKim

  • The control of information systems developments after implementation

    Rob Kling;Suzanne Iacono

  • Cooperation, coordination and control in computer-supported work

    Rob Kling

  • A bit more to it: scholarly communication forums as socio-technical interaction networks

    Rob Kling;Geoffrey McKim;Adam King

  • Students’ Distress with a Web-based Distance Education Course: An Ethnographic Study of Participants' Experiences

    Noriko Hara;Rob Kling

  • Understanding and Communicating Social Informatics: A Framework for Studying and Teaching the Human Contexts of Information and Communication Technologies

    Steve Sawyer;Howard Rosenbaum;Rob Kling

  • Group Behavior and Learning in Electronic Forums: A Sociotechnical Approach

    Rob Kling;Christina Courtright

  • IT and organizational change in digital economies: a socio-technical approach

    Rob Kling;Roberta Lamb

  • Computerization and social transformations

    Rob Kling

  • Defining the boundaries of computing across complex organizations

    R. Kling

  • Not Just a Matter of Time: Field Differences and the Shaping of Electronic Media

    Rob Kling;Geoffrey McKim

Frequent Co-Authors

Walt Scacchi
Walt Scacchi University of California, Irvine
Noriko Hara
Noriko Hara Indiana University
Sasha A. Barab
Sasha A. Barab Arizona State University
John Leslie King
John Leslie King University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Kenneth L. Kraemer
Kenneth L. Kraemer University of California, Irvine
Joey F. George
Joey F. George Iowa State University
Jay F. Nunamaker
Jay F. Nunamaker University of Arizona
Ramesh Sharda
Ramesh Sharda Oklahoma State University
Steve Sawyer
Steve Sawyer Syracuse University
Stephen J. Lepore
Stephen J. Lepore Temple University

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