9th International Conference on Information Technology: Social Computing Track

March 30, 2012 - PRLog -- The relentless development of Internet technologies in recent years has radically altered the landscape for human/social interaction. Characterized by flexibility, user-friendliness and simplicity, Web applications such as wikis, blogs, microblogs, video sharing platforms and social networking sites offer rich, interactive user experiences that facilitate community-based knowledge sharing and collaboration.

Previously, users visited static web pages and accessed institutional content that mirrored print-based publications. Now, users are provided with the tools and platforms to undertake their own collaborative content creation and distribution.
With the Internet rapidly taking on the role of a global marketplace for the exchange of ideas, experiences and knowledge, an interesting research area has emerged: social computing. Social computing lies at the intersection of social behavior and computing systems. It focuses on the use of technology to create social conventions and contexts, as well as the new relationships and power structures that result. Three widely-agreed tenets of social computing are (i) the shift of innovation from a top-down to a bottom-up model; (ii) the shift of value from ownership to experiences; and (iii) the shift of power from institutions to communities.

Social computing (also known as Web 2.0 and social media) has drawn much interest in academia, the information technology industry and among Internet users. This track at ITNG 2012 is therefore timely, and will serve as a platform for those researching this area. Submissions may include research, system, evaluation, policy and position papers.

Topics include, but are not limited to:

Use of information communication technologies for social computing
Mobile social computing
Infrastructure and architectures for social computing
Online communities and social networking
Social tagging and collaborative information organization
Information retrieval and sharing techniques
Usability and user needs
Applications and case studies in social computing
Novel applications supporting user-generated content and social interaction
Social, institutional and policy issues in social computing
Social computing in schools, enterprises and other organizations
Collaboration and social computing
Social computing trends and issues


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