Proliferation of Social Computing: Cultural Computing Paradigm

Abstract

This paper provides a historical perspective of computing technology along with its evolutionary phases. It is a scientific endeavour to understand and further investigate the significant role played by human which leads to the development of innovative technologies. A comprehensive study of invention from personal to cooperative and then to social computing has been done and its impacts have been highlighted. This paper focuses on two aspects explicitly. The first part renders how cultural computing evolved as a technological paradigm. The second part explicates the interaction of culture and technology through dynamics of mind, to define cultural computing.

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“…This was then cleaned to remove repetitions, yielding 4,681 records (tables S1 and S2 in Bialik et al, 2021) Numbers of articles published per year in each journal were obtained from Scimago Journal and Country Rank (https://www.scimagojr.com/). The time range was limited to focus only on the period of proliferation of personal computing and introduction of widespread communication between computers (‘social computing’, Sharma et al, 2016). From the narrower range of years, 117 were selected manually by the authors in no particular order (semi‐randomly) from the list generated by the initial search with supplementary searches to explore additional journals from adjacent fields.…”

“…scima gojr.com/). The time range was limited to focus only on the period of proliferation of personal computing and introduction of widespread communication between computers ('social computing', Sharma et al, 2016). From the narrower range of years, 117 were selected manually by the authors in no particular order (semi-randomly) from the list generated by the initial search with supplementary searches to explore additional journals from adjacent fields.…”

Exploratory Research on Cultural Computing for Human-Computer Interaction. The Case of Sustainability.

“…The focus is made on the sharing of static content: Scope: "Interactive multimedia was the main center of attention in this phase" (Sharma et al, 2016) Examples: Start of the Internet and development of mails, newsgroups. Development of standards to allow this communication.…”

“…The focus is made on the computer (mainly interaction between one person and ond computer, also called mancomputer interaction in this article): Scope: "Besides its limited reach of no collaboration, no sharing and narrow vision, the personal computing extended its domain from desktop to the industries without any timeline" (Sharma et al, 2016) Examples: "... attention was on personal productivity applications, mainly text editing and spreadsheets" (Sharma et al, 2016) Cooperative computing…”

“…The focus is made on social interactions. Scope: "Social Computing refers to applications and services that aid combined action and social interaction on the Internet" (Sharma et al, 2016). Examples: the disappearing computer, the ease of use and positive experience, the building of communities Cultural computing…”