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Policing the People, Peopling the Police: A Social Computing Approach to Information Authority in the Age of Web 2.0. Alan Liu is a Professor of English at UC Santa Barbara. As instanced by well-known controversies regarding Wikipedia and other collection points for socially produced information, the era of so-called Web 2.0 presents new challenges for research in an area that is variously called information credibility, authority, trust, and quality. In this talk, Alan Liu describes an integrated technological, social, and humanities/arts approach to the problem of information authority, then concentrates on a social computing approach now being brainstormed by the UCSB Social Computing Group in conjunction with the UC Transliteracies Project. Originally recorded February 21, 2008.