noun
social informatics
An interdisciplinary academic field studying the social aspects of information and communication technologies.
彼は大学で社会情報学を専攻している。
He is majoring in social informatics at university.
情報学 is informatics or information science in general, while 社会情報学 specifically focuses on the social dimensions.
Compound of 社会 (society) + 情報 (information) + 学 (study). A modern academic term.