hi dan, this syllabus looks great! i have not looked in detail at all your slides, but what about creating tools for a critical and responsible (social) science. i am currently preparing a course on digital methods, and sometimes i wonder about both some of the tools (social) scientists are using, and how they are using it... with all the "digital groundedness" (rogers) research of social media and social structure etc is facing today, a bit of social computing expertise cannot hurt.... with best regards katja --- Dr. Katja Mayer Department of Social Studies of Science University of Vienna, Austria http://homepage.univie.ac.at/katja.mayer Am 03.07.12 23:14, schrieb dan mcquillan:
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
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