Group Members: Kevin Almeroth, Bruce Bimber, Jennifer Earl, Andrew Flanagin, James Frew, Tobias Höllerer, Alan Liu, Miriam Metzger, Ben Y. Zhao.

Research Assistants and Graduate Students: Monica Bulger (lead RA for group), Katrina Kimport (lead RA for group), Ben Adams, Basak Alper, Alex Bostandijiev, Pablo Colapinto, Camilla Fiorese, Darren Hardy, Daniel Havey, Rama Hoetzlein, Jim Kleban, Rebekah Pure, Milena Viljoen.

The Transliteracies Social Computing Group is affiliated with the Center for Information Technology and Society (CITS) and the project on Credibility and Digital Media at UC Santa Barbara. Recognizing the increasing impact of social processes today on the creation, circulation, assessment, and use of online documents (so-called “Web 2.0”), the group works on defining the new field of “social computing.” Particular topics of study include: social computing technologies, analytical and data-mining methods, information credibility (new socio-technological mechanisms of authority, quality, and trust), and collective action.