SOCIAL COMPUTING

• It refers to things like wikipedia, newsgroups, messageboards, email lists , blogs, the web itself etc. In such fora, a lot of value is "collectively constructed" by many users.

• A major job in social computing is to identify "ecosystems" in online communities. What kind of people tend to pipe up with useful answers, in a newsgroup, how information spreads through blogs and wikis, are just two examples of questions which social computing tries to answer.