RKCSI Student Pub Nite: Feb. 22, 2008
Social Computing
Elisabeth Davenport, Napier University
Elin Jacob, IUB School of Library & Information Science
Date: Friday, Feb. 22, 2008
Time: 6:00 pm - ???
Location: Irish Lion
RSVP: To Kathryn Clodfelter (preferably by Feb. 21, but feel free to just show up)
’Social software and computing drives Web 2.0 technology, enabling global connections and providing rich social experiences. Social networking services challenge established notions of privacy, identity and relationship management. Beyond the browser, mobile devices promise new forms of ubiquitous connectivity and presence, offering unprecedented research and business opportunities. To understand the successful applications of tomorrow, we come together today to share research and insight’.
The opening quotation comes from a flier on the ASIS&T website (http://www.asis.org/Conferences/SCS08/SCS08.html) for the first ‘summit’ on social computing, to be held in April this year. Systematic and integrated exploration of the ethical, political, societal and personal implications of this generic technology has barely begun, though there are numerous studies across a number of socially oriented domains – computer-mediated communication, critical discourse analysis, classification studies. A variety of research methods have been used – conversation analysis, social network analysis, formal modeling. The speakers in the ‘pub nite’ session will address the social computing phenomenon from two different traditions – sociotechnical analysis (Davenport) and classification research (Jacob) - and will explore the relationships between them.
All students interested in Social Computing and/or Social Informatics are invited to join us for this informal gathering. To ensure a fruitful discussion, please peruse the following:
