SWIE 2010 - The Social Media and Web 2.0 as an Intelligent Environment Workshop (SWIE 2010)

SWIE aims to bring together researchers and practitioners of social media and its related technologies to discuss social media on the web as an intelligent environment. The workshop intends to discuss issues related to social media on the web, including, but not limited to its potential applications, benefits, and issues.

Goals
SWIE also has the goal of discovering how social media could be an extension of the real world, by discussing on how social media technologies affect users in real life, how it could be leveraged to help solve problems and improve the quality of life, and how social media becomes a social enabler in the real world. Discussion on social media and the Social Web is not limited to the field of information technology per se, but also related areas such as the arts, humanities, engineering, multimedia and information science.

Themes
Themes include, but are not limited to, the following:

Online social networks (e.g. Facebook)
Blogging and the blogosphere
Microblogging and its applications (e.g. Twitter)
User-generated media and content (e.g. Youtube, Flickr)
Crowdsourcing, collaboration, and problem solving (e.g. Wikipedia, Yahoo Answers)
Social content sharing, discovery, and bookmarking (e.g. Digg, del.icio.us)
The Social Web’s online communities and the real world
Entertainment as a form of social media (e.g. MMORPGs)
Presence in an intelligent online environment (e.g. geotagging, status updates)
The dynamics of the Social Web: user interactions, online habits and recent trends
Social media aggregation: unifying multiple online social media identities
Privacy implications of using social media
Viral information spread, memetics, subcultures, and phenomena in an online environment
Social media and popular culture
Paradigm shifts: how social media changes the way we do things
Applications of social media sites in activism, collective action and awareness campaigns
Leveraging the Social Web in times of crisis and emergency
Case studies and deployments