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Social computing is an area of computer science concerned with the intersection of social behavior and computational systems, built around creating or fostering social conventions and social contexts through software and technology. Blogs, email, instant messaging, social network services, wikis and social bookmarking are all instances of what is often called social software and illustrate ideas from social computing, a field whose growth is attributed to the spread of personal devices and increased overall computing power letting more users share content and interact with one another.

Facts
Origin Year
1994 1
Core Concern
Intersection of social behavior and computational systems, fostering social conventions through software 1
Connections

Associated With

Computer-Supported Cooperative Work, Fields

Field-to-field association; both are standard neighbouring areas of computing

Human Computer Interaction, Fields

Social computing's own theoretical-foundations section frames it around the interaction between humans and computers.

Source Social Computing (Wikipedia)
Human-Based Computation, Fields
Recommender Systems, Fields
Source Social Computing (Wikipedia)
Web Science, Fields

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Amy S. Bruckman, Pioneers
Source Wikipedia: Amy S. Bruckman
Chrisanthi Avgerou, Pioneers
Source Chrisanthi Avgerou (Wikipedia)
Danielle Bunten Berry, Pioneers
Source Danielle Bunten Berry (Wikipedia)
Ed Huai-Hsin Chi, Pioneers
Source Ed Huai-Hsin Chi - Wikipedia
Elizabeth F. Churchill, Pioneers
Source Elizabeth F. Churchill - Wikipedia
Leah Culver, Pioneers
Source Leah Culver (Wikipedia)
Mary Gardiner, Pioneers
Source Mary Gardiner (Wikipedia)
Nichole Pinkard, Pioneers
Source Nichole Pinkard (Wikipedia)
Noshir Contractor, Pioneers
Source Wikipedia: Noshir Contractor
Serkan Piantino, Pioneers
Source Wikipedia: Serkan Piantino
Stella Atkins, Pioneers
Source Stella Atkins (Wikipedia)
Telle Whitney, Pioneers
Source Telle Whitney (Wikipedia)
Sources
1. Social Computing (Wikipedia)
Wikimedia Foundation
  • Lead section, para 1
    Social computing is an area of computer science that is concerned with the intersection of social behavior and computational systems.
  • History section, Term appearance
    In 1994, the concept of social computing was first proposed by Schuler.
  • Associated With: Human Computer Interaction, Theoretical foundations section
    These systems result in new behaviors that occur as a result of the complex interaction between humans and computers and can be explained by several different areas of science.
  • Associated With: Recommender Systems, Paragraph on the TikTok content recommendation example
    One recent example of social computing is how platforms like TikTok use community engagement and user feedback to influence content recommendation algorithms, effectively blending algorithmic curation with social behavior.
  • In Group: Collaborative Work and Social Computing, lead section
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Wikipedia: Noshir Contractor
Includes: Noshir Contractor, Infobox: fields
Quote, Includes: Noshir Contractor, Infobox: fields
Organizational communication, Network science, Computational social science
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Wikipedia: Serkan Piantino
Includes: Serkan Piantino, 2007-2016: Facebook
Quote, Includes: Serkan Piantino, 2007-2016: Facebook
Piantino began his career at Facebook as lead engineer for News Feed
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Leah Culver (Wikipedia)
Includes: Leah Culver, Career section
Quote, Includes: Leah Culver, Career section
Pownce was a micro-blogging site she programmed by herself as an experiment
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Danielle Bunten Berry (Wikipedia)
Includes: Danielle Bunten Berry, Career
Quote, Includes: Danielle Bunten Berry, Career
Throughout her career, she was involved in the creation of 12 games, 10 of which revolved around multiplayer compatibility.
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Mary Gardiner (Wikipedia)
Includes: Mary Gardiner, Career, AussieChix
Quote, Includes: Mary Gardiner, Career, AussieChix
Gardiner was a co-founder of AussieChix, which later became Oceania Women of Open Tech.
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Telle Whitney (Wikipedia)
Includes: Telle Whitney, Lead, Grace Hopper Celebration
Quote, Includes: Telle Whitney, Lead, Grace Hopper Celebration
she cofounded the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing with Anita Borg in 1994
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Stella Atkins (Wikipedia)
Includes: Stella Atkins, Lead, Systers community
Quote, Includes: Stella Atkins, Lead, Systers community
one of the founding members of the Systers community for technical women in computing
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Nichole Pinkard (Wikipedia)
Includes: Nichole Pinkard, Career, social networks research
Quote, Includes: Nichole Pinkard, Career, social networks research
Her research is focused on the design and use of pedagogical-based social networks
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Chrisanthi Avgerou (Wikipedia)
Includes: Chrisanthi Avgerou, Lead, social study of information systems
Quote, Includes: Chrisanthi Avgerou, Lead, social study of information systems
is a Greek-born British scholar in the field of the Social Study of Information Systems
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Elizabeth F. Churchill - Wikipedia
Includes: Elizabeth F. Churchill, Lead paragraphView the Source
Wikipedia: Amy S. Bruckman
Wikimedia FoundationIncludes: Amy S. Bruckman, Infobox field and known_for, lead paragraphView the Source
Ed Huai-Hsin Chi - Wikipedia
Includes: Ed Huai-Hsin Chi, Infobox field and known_for, lead paragraphView the Source
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