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What’s a socio-technical system?

From Ulises Ali Mejias’ “A del.icio.us study: Bookmark, Classify and Share: A mini-ethnography of social practices in a distributed classification community“:

A socio-technical system is conformed of hardware, software, physical surroundings, people, procedures, laws and regulations, and data and data structures.

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Posted on April 29th, 2006 by Scott Granneman
Categories: Commonplace Book, Technology, Wash U: Social Software, Wash U: Tech in Changing Society
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