The Social Study of Information Systems (SSIS) is interested in people developing and using technology and the "culture" of those people.
SSIS brings social sciences concepts and methods to study information systems.
SSIS studies these phenomena by drawing on and using "lenses" provided by social sciences, including philosophy, sociology, social psychology, organisational theory, political science.
Thus, it relates to Social Informatics, Human-centered computing (HCC), Science and Technology Studies (STS), Design science.
High profile people in the field are Claudio Ciborra, Jannis Kallinikos, Chrisanthi Avgerou & Susan Scott (LSE), Wanda Orlikowski (MIT), Shoshana Zuboff (Harvard), Lucas Introna & Lucy Suchman (Lancaster), Joe Nandhakumar (Warwick), Wendy Currie (Greenwich), Geoff Walsham, Mathew Jones & Michael Barrett (Cambridge), Kalle Lyytinen (Case Western), Rob Kling (Indiana).