Published by Equipo GNOSS
02/02/2010
This report examines the socio-economic impact of Social Computing applications in Europe. It finds that Social Computing applications, or Social Computing for short, has already brought about significant changes which have led to disruptive impacts on industry, citizens, identity, social inclusion, education, health and public governance. The emergence of Social Computing in the Information Society scene in 2003 was unexpected. Today, a little more than five years later, hundreds of millions of users worldwide are using Social Computing applications such as Social Networking Sites, blogs, collaborative filtering of content, file, photo and video sharing, tagging and annotation, online multi-player games and collaborative platforms for content creation and sharing. And this is only the beg...