review of book (new media)

computational social science

is explicitly transdisciplinary: quantitative methods from fields such as dynamical systems, artificial intelligence, network theory, agent-based modelling, and statistical mechanics are invoked and combined with state-of-the-art mining and analysis of large data sets to help us understand social agents, their interactions on and offline, and the effect of these interactions at the macro level.

summary of books:

Roles, Trust, and Reputation in Social Media Knowledge Markets:Theory and Methods | Editors: Elisa Bertino, Sorin Adam Matei

url: http://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-319-05467-4 

chapter 1: A Research Agenda for the Study of Entropic Social Structural Evolution, Functional Roles, Adhocratic Leadership Styles, and Credibility in Online Organizations and Knowledge Markets

using a leading question: how the notion of expertise and reputation will evolve as a consequence of the emergence and broad use of social media? this question will inter-related to traditional academic setting, research funding, homeland security and intelligence, and healthcare. 

(to be continued)