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 First International Workshop on Social Computing (SOCO 2008) intends to 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. Below are some sample research topics.

SOCO 2008 is part of the pre-conference workshop series of the Sixth IEEE International Conference on Intelligence and Security Informatics (IEEE ISI-2008).
 

SOCO 2008 Workshop Proceedings was published in Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science Series.