1 Intro

Background The Social Life of Small Urban Places by Whyte (video)

Background Social translucence: an approach to designing systems that support social processes

by Erickson & Kellogg

3 None no class: labor day

Part 1. Design Beyond Being There by Hollan & Stornetta pitches: most vexing problem

9 None no class: fall break

Project Prep design project discussion

10 Design Projects presentations: design project

Design Projects presentations: design project

11 Part 2. Analyzing Social Data Computational Social Science by Lazer, et al.

How Happy Are We? by Facebook's Data Team

None no class: principal investigator meeting

13 Networks 1 The Strength of Weak Ties by Granovetter

Networks 2 Predicting Tie Strength With Social Media by Gilbert & Karahalios

Predicting Tie Strength in a New Medium by Gilbert practicum: networks and other social data in R (bring laptops)

None no class: thanksgiving break

15 Data Projects data mini-project presentations

Text 1 Opinion Mining and Sentiment Analysis by Pang & Lee (chapters 1, 3 & 4) guest lecture: sunah suh, etsy

16 Text 2 Widespread Worry and the Stock Market by Gilbert & Karahalios

Phrases That Signal Workplace Hierarchy by Gilbert practicum: processing social text (bring laptops)