Social mediating technologies: developing the research agenda

  • Authors:
  • Alistair Sutcliffe;Victor M. Gonzalez;Robert Kraut

  • Affiliations:
  • Manchester University, Manchester, United Kingdom;Manchester University, Manchester, United Kingdom;Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

  • Venue:
  • CHI '09 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

Social Mediating Technologies (SMTs) range from e-mail to social networking sites and community websites. The popularity of these technologies is increasing rapidly, yet we have little understanding about how and why people find these technologies so appealing. The research challenge is to try to understand the causal drivers for usage of social technologies, and theory-based understanding of how the affordances of such technologies meet with people's cognitive and social needs. This workshop will provide a forum for researchers to synthesise current knowledge on SMTs and map out future research directions.