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Social computing is the study of the social use and impact of information technology, and the study of information technology designed specifically for social purposes, such as interpersonal and group communication, discussion, and social interaction (e.g., electronic mail, instant messenger, discussion tools, blogging, and social websites, such as Friendster, Facebook, and MySpace).
Social Network Software Research:
- Social Network Sites Research: a collection by Danah Boyd of publications on social network sites.
Digital Government and Democratic Processes:
- Digital Government Research Group at Virginia Tech HCI Center: this project seeks to understand how information technology can help support citizen-to-citizen discussion and to design or modifty tools to help local government become more aware of diverse voices and opinions on issues and concerns at the local level.
- Digital Government Society: the Digital Government Society is a newly-formed organization of professionals and scholars who share an interest in furthering the development of democratic digital government. As noted on it's website: The Society grew out of the community of researchers sponsored by the US National Science Foundation Digital Government Research Program and the government partners involved in their projects. The Society is comprised of government professionals, managers, researchers, educators, students, and others interested in the linkages among democratic processes, government management, innovation, information, and technology.
Community Informatics or Community Computer Networking: the design, deployment and investigation of information technology in geographic communities.
Journals that publish research on social computing:
- The Information Society
- Information, Communication & Society
- Journal of Community Informatics brings together academics, Community Informatics (CI) practitioners and national and multi-lateral policy makers from around the world. Each issue of the Journal of Community Informatics contains double blind peer-reviewed research articles as well as commentaries by leading CI practitioners and policy makers.
