Individual and Group Cognition about Social Cloud

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In the latest lecture, two questions are raised for the article Social Cloud Computing: A Vision for Socially Motivated Resource Sharing:

1. What is the definition of Social Cloud?

2. What are the possible applications of a Social Cloud?

The answers are easily found in the article:

1. A Social Cloud is a resource and service sharing framework utilizing relationships established 

between members of a social network.

2.  A Social Computation Cloud; A Social Storage Cloud; A Social Collaborative Cloud; A Social Cloud for Public Science; An Enterprise Social Cloud.

- Is there any differences in terms of individual and group epistemic cognition, how?

All of our group members got the same answer except for Guan Hao, who had more comments on the definition by searching the Internet. And we have all agreed to adopt the comments. The comments are below:

Social Cloud can provide some kinds of services and these services are actually provided and maintained by a social network instead of centralized servers. The type of the services does not matter, it can be computational work, storage, collaborative… therefore there are lots of applications listed in this article. As long as the services are provided by a social network and it utilizes the relationships established in a social network, it is considered as a Social Cloud.

- How did you approach to the problem individually and in group, respectively? Is there any differences in the processes involved?

As for the epistemic aim, I believe there is difference between two activities. For activity one, due to the time limit, I just tried to understand the article and the new concept, to answer the questions; while for activity two, we have already had answers about the social cloud, and our aims are more likely to verify whether the answers are correct and explore more about the concept.

The approach is also different. For activity one, I just try to find answer in the article. In the activity two, more approaches are added including discussing and searching the Internet. However, due to time limit, we didn't find much more about it.