• DocumentCode
    1426398
  • Title

    The Promise and Peril of Social Computing

  • Author

    Riedl, John

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Comput. Sci. & Eng., Univ. of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA
  • Volume
    44
  • Issue
    1
  • fYear
    2011
  • Firstpage
    93
  • Lastpage
    95
  • 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;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Computer
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    0018-9162
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/MC.2011.28
  • Filename
    5688159