ReFerences



Social Software References


 

Tracing the Evolution of Social Software by Christopher Allen provides a historical reference to social software.

 

Wenger, E. (1998). Communities of practice: Learning, meaning, and identity. New York: Cambridge University Press.

 

Ulises Ali Mejias' thoughtful critique of Social Software titled What is social about social software?

 

Clay Shirky's article: Social Software and the Politics of Groups

 

Maarten de Laat's dissertation on "Networked learning." (Boy, check out his vita -- and he's only 33!)

 

Garton, L., Haythornwaite, C., & Wellman, B. (1997) Studying online social networks. Journal of Computer Mediated Communication: 3(1)

 

Danah Boyd's article Autistic Social Softare.

 

Rohit Parikh's 2002 article Social Software from Synthese 132(3) 187-211.

 

Michele Tepper's 2003 article The rise of social software from netWorker 7(3) 18-23.

 

Green & Pearson's 2005 presentation from the 38th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS'05) - Track 5 p. 117b Social Software and Cyber Networks: Ties That Bind or Weak Associations within the Political Organization?

 

about Social Software -- a weblog by grant

 

thesocialsoftwareweblog -- a weblog by Weblogs, Inc.

 

An article by Jennie Bristow titled Social Software -- Get Real.

 

And a rebutal, Social Software is Real, by Ross Mayfield.

 

AOK's Knowledge Sharing and Social Software wiki.

 

programmableweb's Web 2.0 Mashup Matrix -- An experimental matrix of Web 2.0 mash-ups.

 

Social Software Research

 

 

Note: Several of these links I found were available when I was connected to my university network. Outside of that particular net, I found I was locked out.


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