Social computing can be broadly defined as computational facilitation of social studies and human social dynamics as well as the design and use of information and communication technologies that consider social context.

The Second International Workshop on Social Computing (SOCO 2009) intends to build on the success of SOCO 2008, held in June 2008 as part of the IEEE ISI 2008  Conference. SOCO 2009 will bring together social computing researchers from a wide spectrum of academic disciplines to (a) report and review the current state of the art of social computing research and its applications, (b) identify key technical challenges   facing social computing studies; and (c) provide a forum to bring together researchers and practitioners to identify future research opportunities.

SOCO 2009 is part of the pre-conference workshop series of the Seventh IEEE International Conference on Intelligence and Security Informatics (IEEE ISI-2009).