| Date |
Topic |
Readings & Online Sites |
| 1/12 |
Introduction |
|
| 1/14 |
Community: Face to Face and Online |
Reading:
Recommended/Optional:
Online Sites:
|
| 1/19 |
Third Places |
Reading:
Recommended:
Online Site:
Due:
|
| 1/21 |
Research Methods |
Reading:
Recommended:
Online Site:
|
| 1/26 |
Research Ethics |
Reading:
Recommended:
Online Site:
Due:
- Obtain ethics certification via the online
basic course, if you do not already have certification.
Please do not miss this class. If you do miss this lecture, you
must watch a video of class and meet with the TA. |
1/28 |
Design Factors |
Meet jointly with Eric Gilbert's class
Reading:
Online Site:
| 2/2 |
Ethics Continued:
Disguising Subjects in Published Accounts |
Reading:
Online site:
Please do not miss this class. If you do miss this lecture, you
must watch a video of class and meet with the TA.
Due:
|
| 2/4 |
Guest Lecture by Bob Kraut, CMU |
Join GVU Brown Bag in TSRB 132
"Crowd Work, from Production to Creativity"
|
| 2/9 |
Theory of Identity |
Reading:
- The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life, by
Erving Goffman. Pages 1-58, intro & most of chapter
1.
Online Sites:
Due:
|
| 2/11 |
Identity Online |
Reading:
Online Site:
- Optional: Pro Ana Tumblr. Go to Tumblr search and supply keywords "pro ana". (If you have tendancies towards eating disorders, please avoid.)
|
| 2/16 |
Gender Online |
Reading:
Online Sites:
Due:
|
| 2/18 |
Anonymity |
Reading:
Recommended:
Online sites (apps for Android or iOS; please borrow a friend's phone if necessary):
Warning: adult content.
|
| 2/23 |
The Social, the Technical, the Political |
Reading:
- Do Artifacts Have Politics? (Use library web localizer to get free access).
by Langdon Winner. (in The Whale and The Reactor)
- Code v2.0 by Lawrence Lessig. Chapters 3& 7. (Available free online, but you may wish to buy it anyway.)
Online Site:
Due:
- HW: First interview transcript
|
2/25 |
Guest Lecture by Andres Monroy-Hernandez, Microsoft Research |
Join GVU Brown Bag in TSRB 132
Reading:
- Monroy-Hernandez, A., De Choudhury, M., Kiciman, E. , boyd, d.,
Counts, S. (2013).
The New War Correspondents: The Rise of Civic Media
Curation in Urban Warfare. In Proceedings of the ACM Conference on
Computer Supported Collaborative Work (CSCW '13).
- Agapie, E., Teevan, J. Monroy-Hernandez, A. (2015)
Crowdsourcing
in the Field: A Case Study Using Local Crowds for Event Reporting.
In
Proceedings of the Third AAAI Conference on Human Computation and
Crowdsourcing (HCOMP '15)
|
| 3/1 |
The Internet in China |
Guest lecturer: Chaya Hiruncharoenvate
Reading:
|
| 3/3 |
No Class (CSCW) |
|
3/8 |
Social Roles |
Reading:
Due:
- HW: Second interview transcript
|
| 3/10 |
Deviant Behavior |
Reading:
- A
Rape in Cyberspace (or chapter 1 of "My
Tiny Life") by Julian Dibbell
-
Regulating Behavior in Online Communities by Sara Kiesler, Robert Kraut, Paul Resnick, & Aniket Kittur
-
"DeviantArt: A Constructionist Community of Practice for Artists"
by Barbara J. Ericson and Umashanthi Pavalanathan (shared as a resource on T-Square)
Recommended:
- Approaches
to Managing Deviant Behavior in Virtual Communities,
panel, CHI 94, by Amy Bruckman, Pavel Curtis, Cliff
Figallo, and Brenda Laurel
- Managing
Deviant Behavior in Online Communities., panel,
CHI 2006. Amy Bruckman, Catalina Danis, Cliff Lampe,
Janet Sternberg, and Chris Waldron.
- "The Purple Guest" (Chapter 3) in "My
Tiny Life" by Julian Dibbell
- "Banished!" and "Who Let the Nazi In?" (chapters 7 and 8) in Cyberville by Stacy Horn, pp. 157-220.
Online Site:
|
| 3/15 |
Governance |
Reading:
Recommended:
Online Sites:
Due:
- HW: Third interview transcript
|
| 3/17 |
Participation and Lurking |
Reading:
Recommended:
Online Site:
|
| 3/22 & 3/24 |
Spring break--no class |
|
| 3/29 |
Online Privacy |
Reading:
Recommended:
Online Site:
- Electronic Frontier
Foundation (EFF) on Privacy (browse)
- Read the privacy policies of two online sites you use. List
your sites on the wiki, making sure no one else in the class
has picked your sites. Come to class prepared to discuss those
policies.
|
| 3/31 |
Constructionism & Citizen Science |
Reading:
Recommended:
Online Sites:
|
| 4/5 |
The Internet in Cuba
|
Guest Lecturer: Michaelanne Dye
Reading:
|
| 4/7 |
Mechanical Turk and Turkopticon |
Meet jointly with Eric Gilbert's class
Readings:
Online Sites:
|
4/12 |
Community Study Presentations |
Due:
|
| 4/14 |
Community Study Presentations, continued |
|
| 4/19 |
Wikipedia and the nature of "truth" |
Reading:
Online Sites:
|
| 4/21 |
Design Presentations |
Due:
|
| 4/26 |
Online Cooperation and the Open Source Movement |
Reading:
Online Site:
|
Readings and assignments are subject to change.