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Contents 1 Introductions 2 Morning Keynote 2.1 Community History 2.2 Future 2.3 Questions 2.3.1 Items to consider 2.3.2 NSF Grants 3 First Panel Session

Introductions

• Doug Schuler’s book – Liberating Voices
• Conference: www.coopsys.org
• Action Research book - from Australia

Community gone from romanticisation by Marxists in the rural to confusion with ecommerce

Morning Keynote

Community History

• 1980’s - local communities (Santa Monica PEN (1989)
• 1990’s -Search engines DejaNews 1995
• 2000’s - Distributed contributors?

Future

• Society systems
• Ecosystem of niche communities -> not islands due to shared membership
• Infrastructure development

Questions

• Intentional communities vs. unanticipated communities (because community became necessary to achieve something else)
• Crowdsourcing things you wouldn’t expect to crowdsource

Airline security? -> you can expose the limitations

Items to consider

• skill sets
• community standards
• task independence
• individual motivation
• interface and interaction
• maintaining quality
• mitigating possible collusion

NSF Grants

• NSF directions (SoCS)
• Collective intelligence -> emerges from collaboration and competition
• Socially intelligent computing -> Computers as participants

Better understanding of people Social and perceptual intelligence

What are the types of problems one could sole when computers and people are partners in large scale systems – The question lying behind NSF grant.

www.Pensivepuffin.com/dwmcphd NSF Social-Computational Systems - > Deadline Sept 21st 2009

Community as a reason to buy something, attend an event and now as a trick to get me to do things – Wayne from UMBC

Look at Virtual Organizations as Social Systems projects –NSF grantmaking program

Network Science and Engineering - NSF grants

Diversity of participants, most interesting projects had the novelty at the interstices

Information Schools

First Panel Session

Supportive Communication and Sense of Virtual Community

• Blanchard and Markus
• Social Exchange Theory Goulder

Rotman - Youtube community

• Community can be felt to exist because people only need a very few connections across the network (you can only know a very few people) to feel community (which they feel)

Community exists for everyone yet though there isn't a single community out there. Is this a new structure?

• Can we differentiate people who are in the community or outside? Does the structural analysis reveal types of people?

• nature of vloggers being "out there"
• Grounded analysis and graph theory combined provide a better answer.

Online answering services

• Wiki library services - apparently as reliable as reference library services