The Future of Social Computing??
The future of Social Computing?? * Ruchika Arora
The article is based on the article John Riedl, “The Promise and Peril of Social Computing”, IEEE publication, Volume: 44, Issue: 1, Publication Year: 2011, Page(s): 93 - 95.
The author of the article presents to us the world of social computing, its evolution and its scope, highlights some interesting developments in this field, and evaluates its impact on human lives and social structures, in particular. The article leads the deliberation to an interesting question –
Is social computing here to stay or die out? And the aim is to find the answer by assessing its potential to benefit or harm the social structures, which would eventually determine its own fate. The author would write few more articles to present unfolding trends in Social Computing based on the research results that would guide us towards resolving the mystery about the future of Social Computing.
Social computing can be described as use of computers/Internet technologies for the gathering, processing and dissemination of information across groups of people which can be an organization, group of friends, family, social communities or markets. It provides the opportunity to interact, and thereby enables knowledge sharing i.e. exchange of information, expertise or skills among people. The column maintains a broad perspective on what constitutes Social Computing, citing a few examples - Wikipedia, social networking sites like Facebook, content sharing sites like Flickr, product review and rating systems as offered by Amazon. It also includes micro blogging services like Twitter despite the limitation on the length the content. Videocasts are also counted in, however smart phones are not. Another part of Social Computing are the social organizations performing actual computing, known as collective intelligence systems, which includes Futures markets like Iowa Electronic Markets (that predicts real-world events by collecting and processing
The article is based on the article John Riedl, “The Promise and Peril of Social Computing”, IEEE publication, Volume: 44, Issue: 1, Publication Year: 2011, Page(s): 93 - 95.
The author of the article presents to us the world of social computing, its evolution and its scope, highlights some interesting developments in this field, and evaluates its impact on human lives and social structures, in particular. The article leads the deliberation to an interesting question –
Is social computing here to stay or die out? And the aim is to find the answer by assessing its potential to benefit or harm the social structures, which would eventually determine its own fate. The author would write few more articles to present unfolding trends in Social Computing based on the research results that would guide us towards resolving the mystery about the future of Social Computing.
Social computing can be described as use of computers/Internet technologies for the gathering, processing and dissemination of information across groups of people which can be an organization, group of friends, family, social communities or markets. It provides the opportunity to interact, and thereby enables knowledge sharing i.e. exchange of information, expertise or skills among people. The column maintains a broad perspective on what constitutes Social Computing, citing a few examples - Wikipedia, social networking sites like Facebook, content sharing sites like Flickr, product review and rating systems as offered by Amazon. It also includes micro blogging services like Twitter despite the limitation on the length the content. Videocasts are also counted in, however smart phones are not. Another part of Social Computing are the social organizations performing actual computing, known as collective intelligence systems, which includes Futures markets like Iowa Electronic Markets (that predicts real-world events by collecting and processing
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