teaching social computing / critical social media?
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/
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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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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Dear list members, if you hear or read "informatization", how would you contextualize this term? I am asking this, because I have a rather specific idea of what informatization entails (a rather quantitative, technocratic context, looking for measurements of technological diffusion and impact on labour, e-commerce and other fields...) and I would like to know more about other approaches. Are there any other connotations? Maybe in french literature? (Since the term was used in the 1978 presidential report by Nora/Minc: L'informatisation de la societe.) Thanks for your assistence, Katja --- Dr. Katja Mayer Department of Social Studies of Science University of Vienna, Austria http://homepage.univie.ac.at/katja.mayer
Katja Would a translation to the word "digitization" work? Much of my working life ( and in computer programming and other clerical work) from database entry to creating scanned images and microfilm has been in the 1970's to now about digitizing paper knowledge containers such as learned journals and government records into digital format. Peter Timusk B.Math statistics, B.A. legal studies. -----Original Message----- From: air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org [mailto:air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org] On Behalf Of Katja Mayer Sent: July-08-12 10:26 AM To: air-l@listserv.aoir.org Subject: [Air-L] Informatization? Dear list members, if you hear or read "informatization", how would you contextualize this term? I am asking this, because I have a rather specific idea of what informatization entails (a rather quantitative, technocratic context, looking for measurements of technological diffusion and impact on labour, e-commerce and other fields...) and I would like to know more about other approaches. Are there any other connotations? Maybe in french literature? (Since the term was used in the 1978 presidential report by Nora/Minc: L'informatisation de la societe.) Thanks for your assistence, Katja --- Dr. Katja Mayer Department of Social Studies of Science University of Vienna, Austria http://homepage.univie.ac.at/katja.mayer _______________________________________________ The Air-L@listserv.aoir.org mailing list is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org Join the Association of Internet Researchers: http://www.aoir.org/
I have largely seen this term used in Japanese (in which the -ization suffix is a lot less cumbersome), and used in the sense of other developmental -izations, like "modernization," "industrialization," and "internationalization," to refer to public policy designed to encourage changes in social and economic structure. I have seen it used in other contexts--e.g., by IGOs--but always assumed for some reason it was borrowed from the Japanese. Alex On Jul 8, 2012 10:26 AM, "Katja Mayer" <katja.mayer@univie.ac.at> wrote:
Dear list members,
if you hear or read "informatization", how would you contextualize this term?
I am asking this, because I have a rather specific idea of what informatization entails (a rather quantitative, technocratic context, looking for measurements of technological diffusion and impact on labour, e-commerce and other fields...) and I would like to know more about other approaches.
Are there any other connotations? Maybe in french literature? (Since the term was used in the 1978 presidential report by Nora/Minc: L'informatisation de la societe.)
Thanks for your assistence, Katja
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Hi Katja, I would also compare with "mediatization" as it is understood in (cultural) communication studies: a process of cohabitation and amalgamation of media practices, leading to an emergence of new modes of communication. Not in the deterministic view of media effects, but rather a more Latourian approach to systems and institutions/individuals/technologies that inhabit them. http://www.mediatization.eu/ECREA_Temporary_Working_Group_Mediatization/Home... Hepp, A. (2011). Mediatization, media technologies and the “moulding forces” of the media. http://www.mediatisiertewelten.de/fileadmin/mediapool/documents/Vortraege_IC... regards, Alex. On 8 July 2012 16:26, Katja Mayer <katja.mayer@univie.ac.at> wrote:
Dear list members,
if you hear or read "informatization", how would you contextualize this term?
I am asking this, because I have a rather specific idea of what informatization entails (a rather quantitative, technocratic context, looking for measurements of technological diffusion and impact on labour, e-commerce and other fields...) and I would like to know more about other approaches.
Are there any other connotations? Maybe in french literature? (Since the term was used in the 1978 presidential report by Nora/Minc: L'informatisation de la societe.)
Thanks for your assistence, Katja
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Peter Timusk