As computing goes “collaborative and social” [1], the 2012 ACM Computing Classification System (CCS) [2] has made a few modifications that put CSCW under the umbrella called "Collaborative and social computing", along with other social media, blogs, wikis, etc.
Best, han-teng liao [1]: http://people.oii.ox.ac.uk/hanteng/2012/10/01/computing-goes-collaborative-and-social-new-terms-in-the-2012-acm-computing-classification-system-ccs/ [2]: http://www.acm.org/about/class/2012 [3]: http://dl.acm.org/ccs.cfm 2014-07-02 22:38 GMT+07:00 Carlos Castillo <[email protected]>: > Hi, > > I will go as far as saying that Wikipedia research actually changed the > nature of the CSCW field and the CSCW conference. A few years ago an > avalanche of Wiki-related papers arrived to the CSCW conference, which > (in my opinion as a semi-outsider to that community) added social media > as a major element. Indeed in recent years the conference changed name > and now is "Computer-Supported Collaborative Work and Social Computing". > > Cheers, > > -- > ChaTo (Carlos Castillo) > http://chato.cl/ - https://linkedin.com/in/chato - > https://twitter.com/chatox > > On Wed, Jul 2, 2014, at 07:15 AM, Finn Årup Nielsen wrote: > > > > Can I ask a silly question: Is wiki research (including Wikipedia > > research) research on computer-supported collaborative work (CSCW). > > > > My immediate thought was: yes of course. I do note that on Wikipedia > > there is only a parenthetic mentioning of Wikipedia in > > "Computer-supported cooperative work" and no mentioning of CSCW in > > "Wiki" (but I have also heard that you shouldn't trust Wikipedia because > > anyone can edit). > > > > I suppose that some wiki research could be non-CSCW research? E.g., > > research on named entity extraction using Wikipedia would not be called > > CSCW. > > > > > > best regards > > Finn Årup Nielsen > > http://www.compute.dtu.dk/~faan/ > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Wiki-research-l mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l > > _______________________________________________ > Wiki-research-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l >
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