The success of new social networking systems for residents of inner-city neighborhoods depends on the software's ability to animate and support meaningful interaction between proximate users, to network serendipitous social encounters, and to seamlessly integrate with the way interaction takes place in existing urban social networks.
Index Terms:
urban computing, pervasive computing, social networking systems
Citation:
Marcus Foth, "Facilitating Social Networking in Inner-City Neighborhoods," Computer, vol. 39, no. 9, pp. 44-50, Sept. 2006, doi:10.1109/MC.2006.305