SWIE 2010 - The Social Media and Web 2.0 as an Intelligent Environment Workshop (SWIE 2010)

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Category Intelligent Environment;Social Media

Deadline: May 18, 2010 | Date: July 18, 2010

Venue/Country: Monash Uni, Malaysia

Updated: 2010-06-04 19:32:22 (GMT+9)

Call For Papers - CFP

Goals

SWIE also has the goal of discovering how social media could be an extension of the real world, by discussing on how social media technologies affect users in real life, how it could be leveraged to help solve problems and improve the quality of life, and how social media becomes a social enabler in the real world. Discussion on social media and the Social Web is not limited to the field of information technology per se, but also related areas such as the arts, humanities, engineering, multimedia and information science.

Themes

Themes include, but are not limited to, the following:

Online social networks (e.g. Facebook)

Blogging and the blogosphere

Microblogging and its applications (e.g. Twitter)

User-generated media and content (e.g. Youtube, Flickr)

Crowdsourcing, collaboration, and problem solving (e.g. Wikipedia, Yahoo Answers)

Social content sharing, discovery, and bookmarking (e.g. Digg, del.icio.us)

The Social Web’s online communities and the real world

Entertainment as a form of social media (e.g. MMORPGs)

Presence in an intelligent online environment (e.g. geotagging, status updates)

The dynamics of the Social Web: user interactions, online habits and recent trends

Social media aggregation: unifying multiple online social media identities

Privacy implications of using social media

Viral information spread, memetics, subcultures, and phenomena in an online environment

Social media and popular culture

Paradigm shifts: how social media changes the way we do things

Applications of social media sites in activism, collective action and awareness campaigns

Leveraging the Social Web in times of crisis and emergency

Case studies and deployments