Towards a Social Science of Web 2.0 An Initial Call for Paper

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The conference will cover the full range of Web 2.0 resources that fall into the … What linkages can be made between Web 2.0 and other social and cultural …

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Towards a Social Science of Web 2.0:
An Initial Call for Papers
5th & 6th September 2007
National Science Learning Centre (NSLC), the University of York, U.K.
A 2-day event organised by the Social Informatics Research Unit (SIRU), Department of
Sociology, University of York in collaboration with the Taylor and Francis Journal Information,
Communication & Society (iCS) and the ESRC e-Society Programme.
The conference will cover the full range of Web 2.0 resources that fall into the categories that
include wikis, folksonomies, mashups and, especially, Social Networking Sites (SNS). So if
you are involved in social scientific or cultural research on Myspace, Facebook, Bebo,
YouTube, Flikr, Second Life, Del.icio.us or other similar applications then please consider
offering a paper or coming along. We also intend to use the conference to bring together those
working in the social sciences with others who may be involved in developing or using Web
2.0 applications in their everyday lives as well as policy makers, designers, and so on.
This event focuses on some significant developments in Internet
culture that have emerged in the last few years. Although these
developments have received widespread media coverage they…