TPSM 2016 - 4th INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON THE THEORY AND PRACTICE OF SOCIAL MACHINES

The 2016 edition of the SOCM workshop brings together the theoretical foundations of social machines, and the emerging practice of designing and building them. Our goal is to bring scholars from a wide breadth of domains and disciplines to build a more holistic understanding of social machines and their future potential. SOCM2016 aims to identify the complex social and technical factors that governs the development of these systems, and to identify the challenges in observing these factors. With this in mind, SOCM2016 will build on the work of the Web Observatory Workshops of the last two years (WOW2013 and WOW2014) by discussing methods to analyze and explore social machines, as essential mechanisms for deriving the guidelines and best practices that will inform the design of social machine observatories.