Critique Session

by: Renee Hudson

•    Kevin’s Presentation

        o    Social computing definition: the deployment of network communication systems for the purpose of allowing communities of people to interact within particular domains of knowledge for one or more goals”

        o    Series of training workshops designed to allow graduate students to gain higher levels of expertise that we might not be able to acquire otherwise

        o    Cross-pollination of disciplines

        o    Where is the scientific rigor?

        o    Among the themes for today: understanding the evolutionary forces that have molded social computing and understanding what will drive the next generation

        o    What are we trying to model? The relationships? The people? The space between the people?

•    Discussion

        o    What’s the aim of social computing training? Start now, look at the past, etc.?

        o    Don’t just focus on behaviors, but cultures

        o    Assumptions of the proposal – web-based, large groups – suggestion to address and incorporate these concerns in the proposal

        o    Ethnographers need to be a part of this project – used to doing in the field analysis