F09_MIS406_Social+Computing

=**MIS406: Social Computing**= Following is the tentative outline that I intend to follow this Fall:

**Course Description**
The course will focus on the new area of 'Social Computing' which is becoming quite popluar and important these days. This course format would be a mix of lectures, student presentations, and guest speaker sessions. Every week students will make a presentation on the given topic in the first session, and there would be a lecture in the following session. The students will be asked to submit all their asignments and presentations on a class wiki. There will be a semester report to be submitted by the students.

Outline
The course will begin with a discusion of the basics of Network thoery, its models and metrics. Then it will focus on the emerging topics in social computing. Currently the following topics are identified.

INTRODUCTION TO NETWORKS NETWORK THEORY THEORIES OF SOCIAL INFLUENCE VIRTUAL COMMUNITIES OF PRACTICE ANALYSIS AND DESIGN OF INTERACTIVE ONLINE ENVIRONMENTS SOCIAL NETWORK ANALYSIS AND VISUALIZATION BLOGOSPHERE, BUSINESS BENEFITS WIKI CULTURE, COLLABORATION SOCIAL WEB PREDICTION MARKETS RECOMMENDER SYSTEMS REPUTATION MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS CSCW: COMPUTER SUPPORTED COOPERATIVE WORK RECAP

Books
Going Virtual: Distributed Communities of Practice by Paul M. Hildreth

Web Resources
Any web resources that may be used during the course.

Grading Policy
Midterm 30% Final 40% Class Participation (presentations, class assignments, quizzes) 20% Final Report 10%