Talk:Social Software
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I have tagged this page for multiple issues. First of all, putting an "under construction" sign on an article does not grant you ownership of that article. Second, and more importantly, I find it disgraceful that a researcher (or group of them actually) would choose to use Wikipedia to publish their research. There is such a thing as academic integrity and if you wish to gather more attention to your research you can use the usual channels for doing so (journals, working papers in general and conference papers in particular). Coming from an academic background myself I find it appaling that you would choose to do this. While you are thinking about this you may want to read WP:COI, WP:OR and WP:SPS MartinDK 08:20, 4 July 2007 (UTC)
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Dear MartinDK: If you had gone to the end of the article you would have found 27 references to published work. The entry is not being used to announce new unpublished work, but to inform people of exciting new work which has been done and which is being done. Four conferences, either partly or wholly on social software have already taken place, in Copenhagen, London, Utrecht and New York. As for the conflict of names with two difference meanings or usages, the best thing to do is to be polite to the other community. Our purpose is to convey information and not to block others from conveying theirs. Sincerely, Rjpc 22:25, 11 July 2007 (UTC)Rjpc --
- Well to be honest I'm very disappointed that searching for the term social software led me to this page on wikipedia. I'm really interested in Eric Pacuits work and I try to understand it but obviously it clearly fails to distinguish itself from the "other" meaning of social software. If I'd be a scientist I'd be more modest if I just forgot about the other meanings of the term.
- Eric's definition in my eyes clearly doesn't earn to occupy the lemma Social Software as I found no other reference that defines Social Software his way("Social software is an interdisciplinary research program that combines mathematical tools and techniques from game theory and computer science in order to analyze and design social procedures. Research in social software can be divided into three different but related categories: modeling social situations, developing a theory of correctness of social procedures and designing socialp rocedures." [1]
- Whoever published the article this way, clearly didn't understand what an encyclopedia is. Torstenpeh 15:15, 27 July 2007 (UTC)
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This article is very clearly against the spirit of wikipedia. I am also an academic researcher, and I find the author's choice to use wikipedia as a venue for pushing a very marginal and decidedly non-neutral viewpoint on what "social software" might mean to be appalling. Grow a backbone and let your ideas fight it out in the usual places, i.e., the peer-reviewed literature. If you're successful you'll get a wikipedia page summarizing your work and viewpoint soon enough. 152.78.64.180 (talk) —Preceding comment was added at 12:14, 5 March 2008 (UTC)
The article has been recently updated to meet Wikipedia standards. There is no unpublished work in this article. You would notice this if you take the time to scroll down the page and look under 'references' section. Best, CM —Preceding unsigned comment added by Yash M (talk • contribs) 03:13, 20 March 2008 (UTC)
I am distressed by rude expressions like "Grow a backbone and let your ideas fight it out in the usual places". How about growing a backbone and scrolling down to the rest of the entry to see that in fact a lot of the material HAS been published in "the usual places"? Somehow I feel that those who want to identify social software solely with their approach are being a little selfish. The problems of society looked at from the point of view of computer science (as well as game theory and epistemic logic) are extremely important and those of us who care about social problems should be grateful that precise methods from mathematics and computer science are being used to discuss social procedures. It is an inconvenience that the expression "social software" has two different usages but we just have to live with it rather than try to kill off the other community.Rjpc (talk) 17:03, 26 March 2008 (UTC)
