Online Communities and Social Computing Third International Conference, OCSC 2009, Held as Part of HCI International 2009, San Diego, CA, USA, July 19-24, 2009, Proceedings / [electronic resource] : edited by A. Ant Ozok, Panayiotis Zaphiris. - 1st ed. 2009. - XXI, 731 p. online resource. - Information Systems and Applications, incl. Internet/Web, and HCI, 5621 2946-1642 ; . - Information Systems and Applications, incl. Internet/Web, and HCI, 5621 .

Designing and Developing Online Communities -- Social Behaviour of Humans and Artificial Agents in Online Communities -- Web 2.0: Emerging Challenges -- Learning, Education and Culture -- Online Games -- Online Communities and Society.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third International Conference on Online Communities and Social Computing, OCSC 2009, held in San Diego, CA, USA in July 2008 in the framework of the 13th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, HCII 2009 with 10 other thematically similar conferences. The 77 revised papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions. The papers accepted for presentation thoroughly cover the thematic area of online communities and social computing, addressing the following major topics: designing and developing online communities; social behavior of humans and artificial agents in online communities; Web 2.0: emerging challenges; learning, education and culture; online games; and online communities and society.

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Computers and civilization.
Computers--Law and legislation.
Information technology--Law and legislation.
Computer networks .
Electronic data processing--Management.
Microcomputers.
Application software.
Computers and Society.
Legal Aspects of Computing.
Computer Communication Networks.
IT Operations.
Personal Computing.
Computer and Information Systems Applications.

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