Social translucence: an approach to designing systems that support social processes
ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction (TOCHI) - Special issue on human-computer interaction in the new millennium, Part 1
Reinventing Academic Publishing-Part 1
IEEE Intelligent Systems
The challenge of modern academic knowledge exchange
ACM SIGITE Newsletter
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Social computing application innovations develop faster than academics theories about them. While online computing changes radically every few years, a paper can take 3-5 years to reach an audience, often addressing issues relevant a decade ago and increasing the gap between the worlds of theory and practice. Using social computing technologies helps narrow this gap by applying socio-technical principles to an open knowledge exchange system (KES). We propose an open electronic KES that not only increases dissemination (by publishing all) but also increases discrimination (by rating all). This would go beyond current repositories like CoRR by providing an electronic portal that not only disseminates but also reviews computing research. It would address reviewer bottleneck problems by involving more people in more ways, facilitating an online research community where theorists, analysts and practitioners can contribute, converse and create knowledge in a vibrant knowledge commons.