Social technology

The Technology and Society Gateway Seminar

The T&S Gateway Seminar meets every Tuesday beginning September 30, 2008 in Harold Frank Hall 1152 (formerly Engineering I)

The Fall 2008 offering of the Technology & Society Seminar Series (re)addresses the theme of social computing and its impacts on technology and society. Even in the short two years since the first time this topic was explored, social computing technology and its use in everyday society have greatly expanded. In this version of the Gateway Seminar, we will look at three broad categories of topics:

A Social Computing Approach to Information Authority in the Age of Web 2.0
Feb 21, 2008

A Social Computing Approach to Information Authority in the Age of Web 2.0

Alan Liu 's talk examines how Web 2.0 presents new challenges for research in an area that is variously called information credibility, authority, trust, and quality.