hi there in the last academic year i prototyped a 20 week course for 2nd year computing students called 'social computing'. i append below the syllabus and a link to the blog where the raw(!) slides and lecture notes can be found under a CC-by-nc-sa license. i'll also be teaching a 1st year version this year, and an MA module. i'd be interested to hear from anyone who's also teaching a social computing / critical social media course or similar, especially with ideas and/or notes to share :). the syllabus: 1. the emergence of web 2.0 2. internet infrastructure & global social media 3. seeing through social networks 4. the dark side of social networks 5. open source code, copyright & culture 6. programming & participatory culture 7. computing and crowds 8. crowdsourcing, flashmobs & crowdfunding 9. social computing & business 10. social business 11. datascapes 1: tracking, scraping & opendata 12. datascapes 2: visualisation & big data 13. liveness 14. mobile 15. civic hacking 16. civic hacking case studies 17 hackspaces & 3D printing 18 getting stuff done: agile, lean & startups 19 critical theory 20 review (pub quiz!) thanks to barry wellman for the heads up on 'Networked'. cheers dan http://www.gold.ac.uk/computing/staff/d-mcquillan/