ISYS111 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: List Of Social Networking Websites, Enterprise Social Networking, Social Computing
25 May 2018
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ISYS111 – Fundamentals of Business Information Systems
Week 6 Workshop
Essential Question:
• How is social computing empowering individuals?
What is Social Computing?
• Type of IT that combines social behaviour and information systems
• Social computing concentrates on improving collaboration and interaction among
people through user-generated content
• Not anonymous
• Linked to particular individuals who are in tern linked to their networks
• Users produce, control, use and manage content
• Employees and customers are empowered by their ability to use social computing to
organise themselves
• Social computing can influence those in power to listen to concerns of ordinary
people
What’s the differene etween We . and We .?
• Web 1.0 – First generation of the Web (1990):
- Ability to create websites
- Commercialisation of the Web
- Minimal user interaction with Web 1.0 sites
- Passive reception of information
• Web 2.0:
- A loose collection of information technologies, applications and the websites
that use them
- Provides an enriched experience
- A new digital ecosystem that promotes creativity, connectivity, collaboration,
convergence and community
- For example:
▪ Facebook
▪ RSS
▪ Blogs
▪ Wiki
▪ Social networking websites
▪ Enterprise social networks
▪ Mashup
Social computing in business:
• Social commerce:
- The delivery of electronic commerce activities and transactions through
social computing
- Supports social interactions and user contributions
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