SIRU, the Social Informatics Research Unit,http://www.york.ac.uk/res/siru/ is part of the Department of Sociology at the University of York

University of York

The University of York , is an academic institution located in the city of York, England. Established in 1963, the campus university has expanded to more than thirty departments and centres, covering a wide range of subjects...

. Social informatics

Social informatics

Social informatics is the study of information and communication tools in cultural, or institutional contexts...

is the critical social scientific study of information and communication technologies. SIRU is concerned with some of the macro-sociological questions invoked by the global spread of information and communication technologies. Its focus is community informatics, cultural informatics, health informatics, political informatics and spatial informatics. SIRU is co-directed by Brian Loader and Roger Burrows.