Aims & Scope
Bulletin of Social Informatics Theory and Application is the first Asia-Pacific journal in social informatics. The journal aims to create a better understanding of novel and unique socially-centric platforms not just as a technology, but also as a set of social phenomena and to provide a media to help scholars from the two disciplines define common research objectives and explore methodologies.
Research topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- New theories, methods and objectives in computational social science
- Computational models of social phenomena, including behavior modeling
- Dynamics of social collaborative systems and collective intelligence
- Social network analysis and mining
- Mining big social data
- Web mining and its social interpretations
- Quantifying offline phenomena through online data
- Forecasting of social phenomena with digital traces
- Social influence and social contagion
- Ethical, security, privacy, trust, reputation, and incentive issues
- Opinion mining and social media analytics
- News production & consumption in the Internet era
- Credibility of online content
- Tracing and preventing of harmful content and risk events
- Health informatics
- Social media and health behaviors
- Equity in social and information systems
- Social applications of the semantic Web
- Social psychology and personality in the era of new ICTs & Internet
- Virtual reality, augmented reality, & hologram technology impact in social life
- Ambient computing
- Virtual communities
- Game studies
- Human-computer interaction
- Urban informatics
- Social implications of geoinformation systems
- Socio-economic systems and applications
- Digital entertainment
- The impact of new ICT in education
- IoT impact in social life
- National and international policies
- The economic, cultural, and organizational dimensions of computerization
- Social behaviour of people who develop and use computerized systems
- The growing importance of cyber-culture
- Social Life of Deep Web & Dark Web