Foreword

Social Computing is a new course in the IT Department of the College of Computer Studies of the De La Salle University. There are several ways in approaching this course. First is to learn the fundamental paradigm of how social computing came into being, understand the various ways social computing is experienced thru various social network applications. Second, it can be approached in an evaluative experience, allowing the students to study and test social computing sites,understand the impact of Web 2.0 in the new changes taking place in online social interactions.

Hopefully, the course will help the students acquire a broader perspective of social computing at the end of the course and not just regular subscribers or users of social computing internet sites.