Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : social informatics in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic / Shengnan Yang, Xiaohua Zhu, Pnina Fichman

Part 1. Governance

Toward a sociotechnical framework for misinformation policy analysis / Xiaohua Zhu, Shengnan Yang

Governing privacy as contexts overlap during crisis / Madelyn Rose Sanfilippo, Chang Liu

Part 2. Community

A social informatics approach to online communities of practice of the art recreation challenge on instagram during COVID-19 / Pnina Fichman, Meredith Dedema

Treating a viral culture : using cultural competency and social informatics to design contextualized information literacy efforts for specific social information cultures / Rachel N. Simons, Aaron J. Elkins

Part 3. Information behavior

Information behavior and emotion change during a public health emergency of international concern : a case study of middle-aged people / Shijuan Li, Xiaolong Chen, Hui Lin, Xinmei Hu

Evolution of discussion topics in online depression self-help groups before, during, and after COVID-19 lockdown in China / Honglei Lia Sun, Pnina Fichman

Public engagement with science during and about COVID-19 via twitter : who, when, what, and how / Meredith Dedema, Noriko Hara

Part 4. Everyday life

From paperless offices to peopleless offices : the effects of enforced ICT usage during Covid-19 lockdowns on workplace information practices / Katriina Byström

Algorithmic assemblages, the natural attitude, and the social informatics of the pandemic lifeworld / Howard Rosenbaum