This workshop will be held on July 17, 2012, with the central participation of Boleslaw Szymanski, Josep Maria Terricabras, and Miquel Duran, and with the explicit invitation of the UdG researchers whose research on issues related to social networks may place them in position to have an opinion on the issue of amplification of the social networks.

 

The success of social networking is based on facilitating human interaction with the online means. Human capabilities are the heart of the social network and are in their core value. Yet, the human factor, that otherwise is strength, it is also an important restriction: the people are the bottleneck of the networks, because they have no ability to respond 24/7 or attend many networks at once. So there is need of enlarging the human capacity, namely the amplification, to work in the network and extract all its fruits: there is need to filter the information in social networks, or to have available a kind of answering machines to automate the frequent responses and contact requests.

 

The amplification of the social network means more network, more social, without suffering drawbacks such as being slave of the social networks in the sense of having total availability to the network to provide contents at all times and getting infoxicated (intoxicated by tones of information provided by the social networks). However, amplification of the social network