Coming Soon: The Social Software Department
Posted June 6th, 2007 by Laura Blankenship, Bryn Mawr College
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The University of Michigan has created a graduate program in social computing, solidifying the topic as a topic of interest to a critical mass of researchers. This article in the Wall Street Journal points to many indicators that social computing and social software is becoming popular. It's a recognition, I think, that social networking, blogging, and the Wikipedia are part of the permanent infrastructure of our lives.
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Laura Blankenship. "Coming Soon: The Social Software Department." Academic Commons Issue Name (Spring 2008): 16 March 2010. <http://www.academiccommons.org/>.Bookmark/Search this post with:
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On June 21st, 2007 Michael Roy, Middlebury College said:
What I find most interesting in these developments is the shift from technology as instrument to accomplish educational and communication goals to technology as object of study. This shift dramatically narrows how interested large swaths of campus will actually be interested in such questions, but deepens the level of involvement from those who do want to engage with these questions.
