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An Instantiation Methodology and Its Multiple Aspects

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It is a common ground to affirm that today, all disciplines are in a crisis. Computer and social sciences are no exception. Contrary to what we diffuse in some fields, research centres and Quebec universities do not lack ideas, quite to the contrary. We experience the ideas inflation (Moles and Rohmer 1986, 1998; Moles 1990; Moles and Jacobus 1988), but it is the epistemological mechanisms and practices of ideas transition from the lab to the society that are at the heart of the storm. The crisis is also linked to the compartmentalization between disciplines, at the origin of the current view’s narrowness and the difficulty to create systems that work and contribute to the quality of life of all members of society. In our field, community informatics design, an international reflection, began 6 or 7 years ago, and the Community Informatics journal founded by Michael Gurstein (2003) questions the theoretical foundations of information systems design and those of the related disciplines (human-computer interfaces, collective teleworking, social computing, socio-digital media, interactive design, emancipated design, human-centred design and, more recently, communicational design and community-centred design). This transdisciplinary debate is often located at a very abstract level. The present chapter aims to fulfill these gaps somehow.

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Harvey, PL. (2017). An Instantiation Methodology and Its Multiple Aspects. In: Community Informatics Design Applied to Digital Social Systems. Translational Systems Sciences, vol 12. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-65373-0_8

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