The IEEE Computer Society issues the following Call for Participation and invites interested parties to join the Special Technical Community (STC) on Social Networking.

The aim of this STC is to provide the entry point for researchers and practitioners in Social Networking, fostering communication and interaction between people in the community.

The STC on Social Networking intends to be Agora for researchers with similar interests to meet and gather. We are interested in (but not limited to) the following topics:

• Social network services, applications, and tools
• Social computing and social search 
• Social multimedia and social communications
• Mobile social networking
• Social network analysis and visualization
• Standardization trends and federated social Web initiatives
• Business models
• Societal issues (e.g., privacy and data protection)

How to participate? Come and join us via: