International Journal of Social Sciences
  • Year: 2014
  • Volume: 3
  • Issue: 2

Social Software Engineering as non profit technologies: Trends and future Potentials for Social Informatics and Digital Humanities

1Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology (IIEST), Shibpur, West Bengal, India

2DIT, Birla Institute of Technology, Mesra, Ranchi, India

3Institute of Engineering and Management, Salt Lake, Kolkata, West Bengal, India

4Department of Computer Science and Engineering, SRM University, Tamil Nadu, India

*Corresponding author: prantoshkpaul@gmail.com

Online published on 11 June, 2014.

Abstract

Software Engineering and its application and integration to the community or society is called as Social Software Engineering. This is a concept and procedure rather than tools and products towards design, development and management of products, software, application and system for the society or community; directly and indirectly and thus social Software Engineering gain popularity recently for building Social Computing and Social Informatics much more advance and popular. In other sense, such Engineering practice may also known as Non Profit Technologies. This paper is talks about Social Software Engineering including its basic feature and characteristics. Paper also illustrated some technologies and products which are helps in promotion of Digital Humanities and Digital product application too.

Keywords

Social software engineering, SSE, digital humanities, social information system, information culture, knowledge management, information science, software engineering