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Posts tagged with: social computing
Forget TikTok. China’s Powerhouse App Is WeChat. - The New York Times
By Jon Dron 10 September 2020 @ 11:44am Comments (3)www.nytimes.com - This is a terrifying article on the all-powerful (in China) WeChat app, revealing some fascinating insights into the ways it is organized and policed - very literally - by Chinese authorities. As one source puts it, "The filter bubbles on WeChat...An Introduction to Social Media for Scientists
By Jon Dron 27 January 2017 @ 6:52pmjournals.plos.org - A practical guide for researchers wishing to make use of the social web in a professional academic context. Given the intent to offer an introduction as to why social media should matter to the academic research community, it provides quite a good...Noah Kagan: Why entrepreneurs should have one goal - Business Insider
By Jon Dron 18 March 2016 @ 2:04pmwww.businessinsider.com - And the one goal is growth. Zuckerberg would always ask the same question: "Does it help us grow?" If not, he would tell Kagan he wasn't interested. This relentless and single-minded pursuit of growth not matter what the cost is of course what I...Facebook opens up Internet.org amidst net neutrality row - BBC News
By Jon Dron 4 May 2015 @ 10:12am Comments (4)www.bbc.co.uk - An interesting bit of news to start the new session of our social computing course (COMP650) rolling: Facebook is now allowing a few more sites to be available from its internet.org initiative. I find there to be so many things that are wrong with...Introduction to Recommender Systems | Coursera
By Jon Dron 12 July 2013 @ 4:13pm Comments (1)www.coursera.org - From the announcement sent to me via the recsys mailing list, this may be of interest to some: "An Introduction to Recommender Systemstaught this fall by Joe Konstan and Michael Ekstrandon Coursera (https://www.coursera.org/course/recsys)We're...SCA2011: Social computing conference CFP (deadline Aug 15)
By Jon Dron July 25, 2011 - 9:17am Comments (2)Call for papers: SCA2011 - International Conference on Social Computing and its Applications, Dec.12-14, 2011, Sydney, Australia. Website: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/sca2011/ Key dates: Submission Deadline: extended to August 15,...6 Scientific Reasons Social Networks Are Bad for Society | Cracked.com
By Jon Dron 19 July 2011 @ 9:26amwww.cracked.com - Despite the lighthearted tone of the article and its aims at mass appeal, this actually points to some good papers on a range of interesting facets of social site use and behaviour.Shirky: A Group Is Its Own Worst Enemy
By Jon Dron 8 May 2011 @ 8:51pmshirky.com - Clay Shirky in stellar form on why groups can be a bit, er, problematic. Great stuff on what social software is all about, from 2003.The Virtual Community: Howard Rheingold
By Jon Dron 8 May 2011 @ 8:50pmwww.rheingold.com - A seminal book, available online, one of the earliest in the field, mainly exploring the communities of the Well, a pre-Internet social system. Great stuff.
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COMP 650: Social Computing
In support of COMP 650, Social Computing
