Horizon Report 2006: Examples - Slide 1
From RG-Bibliowiki
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Academic uses of social computing
"Social computing is essentially the application of computer technology to facilitate collaboration and working in groups. The emphasis is on the social part of social computing: what makes this phenomenon interesting, and what is likely to make it long-lasting, is the way it facilitates an almost spontaneous development of communities of people who share similar interests."
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A few examples from inside and outside academia...
- Range of social computing applications is large and growing
- Focus on:
- Wikis
- Blogs
- Brief discussion of tagging and folksonomies
