Love to see the outline, Alison. Andrew Herman, Ph. D. Associate Professor Department of Communication Studies Director, Graduate Program in Cultural Analysis and Social Theory Wilfrid Laurier University Waterloo, Ontario N2L 3C5 CANADA 519 884-1970 x3693

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Alison Powell <a.powell@lse.ac.uk> 07/04/12 5:12 AM >>> Hi Dan,

I taught a similar course last year at LSE, for MSc Media students - the content was much the same but I organized the course around the theme of the transformation of the relationship between the citizen and the state. The first section was theoretical, the second was empirical (case studies of transformations including open data and policing) and the third was methodological. We spent a lot of time working with Scott Lash's ideas about post-hegemony, especially as they might apply to different forms of mediated citizenship. Next year I'm thinking of making the theme civic hacking, and include more on making, what you call 'getting stuff done' and something on citizen science. I'd be interested to know what readings you were working with . . . maybe we could even organize a joint event or symposium for students?? Alison. On 03/07/2012 22:14, dan mcquillan wrote:

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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