Title :
The Promise and Peril of Social Computing
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. Sci. & Eng., Univ. of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA
Abstract :
Social computing has the potential to fundamentally change the structure of human relationships. Will it succeed? This paper will highlight interesting developments in the world of social computing. In addition to exploring interesting phenomena in the social computing world, these articles will strive to peek into what the future holds by examining recent research.
Keywords :
social sciences computing; human relationship structure; social computing; Behavioral science; Facebook; Internet; Social network services; Social computing;