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CS 6474: Social Computing

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1		Intro
		Background	The Social Life of Small Urban Places by Whyte (video)
2		Background	Computer Networks as Social Networks by Wellman The Benefits of Facebook "Friends:" Social Capital and College Students' Use of Online Social Network Sites by Ellison, Steinfield & Lampe
		Background	Social translucence: an approach to designing systems that support social processes by Erickson & Kellogg
3		None	no class: labor day
		Part 1. Design	Beyond Being There by Hollan & Stornetta pitches: most vexing problem
4		Design Metaphors & IM	Metaphors We Live By (selection) by Lakoff & Johnson The Chat Circles Series: Explorations in Designing Abstract Graphical Communication Interfaces by Viégas & Donath Visualizing Email Content: Portraying Relationships from Conversational Histories by Viégas, Golder & Donath
		Email	Making Work Visible by Suchman Enhancing Directed Content Sharing on the Web by Bernstein, et al. hack-a-while: email (bring laptops)
5		SNSs 1	Identity and Deception in the Virtual Community by Donath Is It Really About Me?: Message Content in Social Awareness Streams by Naaman, Boase & Lai
		SNSs 2 & Twitter	Farmer's Tale: A Facebook Game to Promote Volunteerism by Jianqiang, et al. Friends, Friendsters, and Myspace Top 8: Writing Community into Being on Social Network Sites by boyd pitches: email
6		SNSs 3	Speak Little and Well: Recommending Conversations in Online Social Streams by Chen, Nairn & Chi Peaks and Persistence: Modeling the Shape of Microblog Conversations by Shamma, Kennedy & Churchill
		SNSs 4	Thanks and Tweets: Comparing Two Public Displays by Munson, Rosengren & Resnick "I'll Press Play, but I Won't Listen": Profile Work in a Music-focused Social Network Service by Silfverberg, Liikkanen & Lampinen hack-a-while: twitter api (bring laptops)
7		Trust	Trust Breaks Down in Electronic Contexts but Can Be Repaired by Some Initial Face-to-Face Contact by Rocco Regulating Behavior in Online Communities by Kiesler, Kittur & Kraut
		Calendars	Why CSCW Applications Fail: Problems in the Design and Evaluation of Organizational Interfaces by Grudin An Open, Social Microcalender for the Enterprise: Timely? by Geyer, et al. pitches: social network site
8		Video	What Video Can And Can’t Do For Collaboration: A Case Study by Isaacs & Tang Synchronous Interaction Among Hundreds: An Evaluation of a Conference in an Avatar-based Virtual Environment by Erickson, et al.
		Mobile	Plastic: A Metaphor for Integrated Technologies by Rattenbury, Nafus & Anderson Real-time Nonverbal Opinion Sharing Through Mobile Phones During Sports Events by Shirazi, et al.
9		None	no class: fall break
		Project Prep	design project discussion
10		Design Projects	presentations: design project
		Design Projects	presentations: design project
11		Part 2. Analyzing Social Data	Computational Social Science by Lazer, et al. How Happy Are We? by Facebook's Data Team
		None	no class: principal investigator meeting
12		Background	Predicting the Present by Varian Diurnal and Seasonal Mood Vary with Work, Sleep, and Daylength Across Diverse Cultures by Golder & Macy
		Background	When Can I Expect an Email Response? A Study of Rhythms in Email Usage by Tyler & Tang Social Capital on Facebook: Differentiating Uses and Users by Burke, Kraut & Marlow practicum: basics of R (bring laptops)
13		Networks 1	The Strength of Weak Ties by Granovetter
		Networks 2	Predicting Tie Strength With Social Media by Gilbert & Karahalios Predicting Tie Strength in a New Medium by Gilbert practicum: networks and other social data in R (bring laptops)
14		Networks 3	An Experimental Study of the Small World Problem by Travers & Milgram Yahoo's Small World Experiment by Watts, et al. (browse & maybe try) The Political Blogosphere and the 2004 U.S. Election: Divided They Blog by Adamic & Glance
		None	no class: thanksgiving break
15		Data Projects	data mini-project presentations
		Text 1	Opinion Mining and Sentiment Analysis by Pang & Lee (chapters 1, 3 & 4) guest lecture: sunah suh, etsy
16		Text 2	Widespread Worry and the Stock Market by Gilbert & Karahalios Phrases That Signal Workplace Hierarchy by Gilbert practicum: processing social text (bring laptops)
		Data Projects	data project presentations

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