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Social Media and Collective Intelligence—Ongoing and Future Research Streams

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The tremendous growth in the use of Social Media has led to radical paradigm shifts in the ways we communicate, collaborate, consume, and create information. Our focus in this special issue is on the reciprocal interplay of Social Media and Collective Intelligence. We therefore discuss constituting attributes of Social Media and Collective Intelligence, and we structure the rapidly growing body of literature including adjacent research streams such as social network analysis, Web Science, and computational social science. We conclude by making propositions for future research where in particular the disciplines of artificial intelligence, computer science, and information systems can substantially contribute to the interdisciplinary academic discourse.

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  1. Dept. of Information Systems and Information Management & Institute of Broadcasting Economics, University of Cologne (Köln), Cologne, Germany

    Detlef Schoder

  2. Center for Collective Intelligence, MIT Sloan School of Management, Cambridge, MA, USA

    Peter A. Gloor

  3. Dept. of Computer Science, Wellesley College, Boston, MA, USA

    Panagiotis Takis Metaxas

  4. Center for Research on Computation and Society, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA

    Panagiotis Takis Metaxas

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Schoder, D., Gloor, P.A. & Metaxas, P.T. Social Media and Collective Intelligence—Ongoing and Future Research Streams. Künstl Intell 27, 9–15 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13218-012-0228-x

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