Special Technical Community Chairs 
Christian Timmerer (Chair) 

Klagenfurt University, Austria 
George K. Thiruvathukal (Co-Chair) 
Loyola University Chicago, USA 

Editorial Board 
Sagee Ben-Zedeff
Serendip Media, Israel
Ian S Burnett
RMIT, Australia 
Pablo Cesar
CWI, The Netherlands
Thomas Gottron
Univ. of Koblenz-Landau, Germany
Alejandro Jaimes
Yahoo! Research Barcelona, Spain
Ramesh Jain
University of California, Irvine, USA 
Ralf Klamma
RWTH Aachen University, Germany 
Keith Mitchell
BBC, UK
Jérôme Picault
Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs, France

Why to participate? 

The Agora for researchers in SN. Communication with like-minded people through existing SN tools 

How to participate? 
For the moment, come and join us here and via 
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  • Social TV     Extract of: P. Cesar and D. Geerts, "Understanding Social TV: a survey," in Proceedings of the Networked and    Electronic Media Summit (NEM Summit 2011), Torino, Italy, September 27-29, 2011 ...
    Posted Nov 2, 2011 2:24 AM by Pablo Cesar
  • Schools That Rule The Web The realm of higher education has, so far, responded to the Internet revolution with decidedly mixed results. Though enthusiasm about online learning, for example, is shared by many institutional leaders ...
    Posted Oct 25, 2011 5:42 PM by Tony Shin
  • Conversions in Social Media Nice infographic found in "Digital - Die Zeitschrift für die Informationsgesellschaft, Sep/Oct 2011"
    Posted Oct 13, 2011 6:48 AM by Christian Timmerer
  • Call for Book Chapters on Social Media Retrieval SOCIAL MEDIA RETRIEVAL, a book edited by: Dr. Naeem Ramzan, Queen Mary University of London, UK Dr. Roelof van Zwol, Yahoo! Research, USA Dr. Jong-Seok Lee, Yonsei University, Korea ...
    Posted Oct 6, 2011 5:50 AM by Christian Timmerer
  • Call for Participation The IEEE Computer Society issues the following Call for Participation and invites interested parties to join the Special Technical Community (STC) on Social Networking.The aim of this STC is ...
    Posted Sep 28, 2011 1:17 PM by Christian Timmerer
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Social Life Networks

In this column, Ramesh Jain blogs about Social Life Networks (SLN), i.e., networks that connect people with other people and essential life resources.

IEEE Social Computing

Social Computing is a bi-monthly column of IEEE Computer edited by John Riedl.

DateURLAbstract
January 18, 2012 Are Our Online "Friends" Really Friends? Do social media contribute to or detract from the creation of social capital, the vital currency that forms the basis of enduring relationships? 
November 16, 2011 Crowdsourcing Maps Geowikis combine user-contributed content with map-based interactive Web applications. 
September 12, 2011 Let's Gang Up on Cyberbullying  The novel design of social network software can help prevent and manage the growing problem of cyberbullying. 
July 1, 2011 Expressing My Inner Gnome: Appearance and Behavior in Virtual Worlds Role-playing gamers take on the behavior they think appropriate for the "body" they inhabit in a virtual environment. 
May 1, 2011 Folksonomy Formation The combination of eager taggers and intelligent algorithms that nurture effective tagging behavior promises a bright future for tagging systems.  
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