The IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) has recently launched a new journal “Journal of Social Computing” starting this autumn, jointly sponsored by Tsinghua University, University of Göttingen, and University of Chicago.

Social computing concerns the intersection of social behavior and computational systems. Journal of Social Computing (jOsOcO) is an open access, peer-reviewed scholarly journal which aims to publish high-quality, original research that pushes the boundaries of thinking, findings, and designs at the dynamic interface of social interaction and computation. This will include research in traditional social computing and computer supported cooperative work (CSCW), but also computational social science (CSS)—the use of computation to learn from the explosion of social data becoming available today; socially intelligent computing or the analysis of how dynamic, evolving social collectives constitute emergent computers to solve their own problems; socially inspired computer science, human computer interaction (HCI) and human-centered computing (HCC) whereby machines and persons recursively combine to generate unique knowledge and collective intelligence. The journal seeks to take risks, avoid boredom and failure on the path to transformative new paradigms, insights, and possibilities.

The URL of the journal is https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/RecentIssue.jsp?punumber=8964404

Related to the journal, a new International Conference on Social Computing has been established in 2019 and this year's edition is taking place in a hybrid way (in Beijing and online) on 14-15th December 2020:

http://css.aerber.cn/institution/social_computing/social_computing.html

Editors in Chief:
James Evans, University of Chicago
Xiaoming Fu, University of Göttingen
Jar-Der Luo, Tsinghua University