Social Informatics (SI) refers to the body of research and study that examines social aspects of computerization, including the roles of information technology in social and organizational change and the ways that the social organization of IT is influenced by social forces and social practices. SI includes studies and other analyses that are labelled as social impacts of computing, social analysis of computing, studies of computer-mediated communication (CMC),information policy, "computers and society," organizational informatics, interpretive informatics, and so on.