Rob Kling: A Remembrance

Rob Kling Bibliography

Sociological Rob: How Rob Kling Brought Computing and Sociology Together

I was giving a talk about communication networks and social networks at the Sunbelt Social Network conference. This was well before the Internet. No one cared about this except for this rather big, red-headed guy who was leaning forward with interest, nodding and frowning as I went on. I immediately knew that he would be Questioner #1. I was right. Rob eagerly asked good, sharp questions about ...

Rob Kling and the Irvine School

The Irvine School refers to an intellectual perspective on information technology in complex organizational settings that emerged at the University of California, Irvine, over the last three decades of the 20th century. In many ways, the rise of the Irvine School was synonymous with the rise of Rob Kling’s influence on the international community of scholars who would eventually form what Rob c...

On Rob Kling: The Theoretical, the Methodological, and the Critical

We explore Rob Kling’s conceptual scaffolding for Social Informatics: his integration of theory, method and evidence and philosophical underpinnings and moral basis of his commitment to a critical stance towards computers and social life. He extended his focus on organizational practices and a lifelong meditation on democracy, value conflicts and social choices to the discourses of computerizat...

Exploring sociotechnical interaction with Rob Kling: five "big" ideas