Tuesday, October 2, 2012
Social Network Analysis Fever
Social Network Analysis (SNA) has got tremendous attention from researchers from various domains. An interesting contribution from one of the most famous social network analysis advocate, Danah Boyd (together withe Ellison N.) can be found here, Social Network Sites: Definition, History, and Scholarship
An over view on social computing from technological point of view can be found here
[Update from Anne West follows]
Monday, October 1, 2012
What is (or what is not) Social Computing?
Social Computing is a relatively new domain of research interest among the computer and systems scientists. However, social network analysis dates back to the early days of nineteenth century. The power of the 'wisdom of crowd' was recognized in the social science research domain. However, there was no tool to apply the knowledge easily into the computation. With the advent of modern communication and computation technologies, now online presence and participation of individuals become ubiquitous. Therefore, the social network analysis has gain next wave of interests from the research communities.
Interestingly, often social network analysis is (wrongly) considered as social computing. However, social network analysis is a smaller subset of the original problem domain. In its strong definition, social computing has to do with supporting "computations" that are carried out by groups of people (original source is
Apart from the social (and behavioral) science, social computing has become the central place for number of research fields within the communication and computation domain. It has attracted broad interest from researchers as well as technologists, software and online game vendors, Web entrepreneurs, business strategists, political analysts, and digital government practitioners, to name a few. (Original source is: Social Computing: From Social Informatics to Social Intelligence)
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