300961 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Social Computing, Recaptcha, Citeulike
Document Summary
Social information processing is "an activity through which collective human actions organize knowledge. " it is the creation and processing of information by a group of people. As an academic eld social information processing studies the information processing power of networked social systems. Authoring tools: e. g. , blogs: collaboration tools: e. g. , wikis, in particular, e. g. , wikipedia, collaborative ltering: e. g. , digg, the amazon product recombination. Although computers are often used to facilitate networking and collaboration, they are not required. For example the trictionary in 1982 was entirely paper and pen based, relying on neighborhood social networks and libraries. The creation of the oxford english dictionary in the 19th century was done largely with the help of anonymous volunteers organized by help wanted adds in newspapers and slips of paper sent through the postal mail. Social overload corresponds to being imposed to high amount of information and interaction on social web.
