Course Schedule
Jan 6 – Introductions
Dewar, J. A. (1998). The Information Age and the Printing Press: Looking Backward to See Ahead. Rand Corporation Research & Papers.
Wellman, B. (2004). “The three ages of internet studies: ten, five and zero years ago”, New Media & Society, Vol 6(1), pp.123–129.
Castells, M. (2000). “Materials for an exploratory theory of the network society”. British Journal of Sociology, 51(1), pp. 5–24.
Wellman, B. et al. (2003). “The Social Affordances of the Internet for Networked Individualism”, Journal of Computer Mediated Communication, Vol 8, No 3. (web)
Jan 20 –The Networked Society & Social Media
boyd, d. m., & Ellison, N. B. (2007). Social network sites: Definition, history, and scholarship. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, 13(1), article 11.
Cormode, G. & B. Krishnamurthy. (2008). “Key differences between Web 1.0 and Web 2.0”, First Monday, Vol 13 (6).
Creating Information
Lamb, B. (2004). “Wide Open Spaces: Wikis, Ready or Not”. EDUCAUSE Review, 39(5), pp. 36–48. (web)
Rafaeli, S., & Ariel, Y. (2008). Online motivational factors: Incentives for participation and contribution in Wikipedia. In A. Barak (Ed.), Psychological aspects of cyberspace: Theory, research, applications (pp. 243-267). Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
Searching for Information
Feb 3 – Social Bookmarking & Tagging
Heymann, P., Koutrika, G. & H. Garcia-Molina. (2008). “Can Social Bookmarking Improve Web Search?”, Info Lab Technical Report, Presented at WSDM, Standford, CA.
Millen, D. Yang, M., Whittaker, S. & J. Feinberg. (2007). “Social Bookmarking and exploratory search”, IBM discussion Paper.
Golder, A. & B. Huberman. (2008). “The Structure of Collaborative Tagging”, Discussion Paper, Information Dynamics Lab, HP Labs.
Circulating Information
Feb 10 – Blogs
Blood, R. (2000) “Weblogs: A History and Perspective”, Rebecca’s Pocket. 07 September 2000.
Boulos, M.K.N., Maramba, I. & S. Wheeler. (2006). “Wikis, blogs and podcasts: a new generation of Web-based tools for virtual collaborative clinical practice and education” BMC Medical Education, 6:41.
Feb 24 – Social Networking Sites
Ellison, N., Steinfield, C. & C. Lampe. (2007). “The Benefits of Facebook “Friends”: Social Capital and College Students’ Use of Online Social Network Sites”, Journal of Computer Mediated Communication, Vol 12, No 4, pp. 1143-1168.
Humphreys, L. (2007). Mobile social networks and social practice: A case study of Dodgeball. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, 13(1), article 17.
Mar 3 – Micro-blogging Practices
Huberman, B., Romero, D. & F. Wu. (2008). “Social Networks that matter: Twitter under the microscope”. Social Computing Lab, HP Laboratories.
Java, A., Song, X., Finin, T. & B. Tseng. (2007). “Why We Twitter: Understanding Microblogging Usage and Communities”. SNA-KDD Workshop ’07, August 12, 2007, San Jose, California.
The complexity of infomania: risks & implications
Mar 10 – Searching for (mis?)information
Pan, B., Hembrooke, H., Joachims, T., Lorigo, L., Gay, G., and Granka, L. (2007). In Google we trust: Users’ decisions on rank, position, and relevance. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, 12(3), article 3.
Hargittai, E., (2007). The social, political, economic, and cultural dimensions of search engines: An introduction. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, 12(3), article 1.
Grimmelmann, J. (2008). “Facebook and the Social Dynamics of Privacy” The Selected Works of James Grimmelmann.
Acquisti, A. & R. Gross (2006). “Imagined Communities: Awareness, Information Sharing, and Privacy on the Facebook”, in Privacy Enhancing Technologies, Berlin: Springer, pp 36-58.
Mar 24 – Commodifying personal information
Rohle, T. (2007). “Desperately seeking the consumer: Personalized search engines and the commercial exploitation of user data”, First Monday, Vol 12 (9).
Mar 31 – Presentations
