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COMP 650: Social Computing
Owner: Jon Dron
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This group is intended to support COMP 650, Social Computing, a masters level course in SCIS. Membership is open to anyone (otherwise it would be a bit anti-social!) though it is intended primarily for those on the course, alumni of the course and invited guests. Some elements may be visible to logged in users and the general public, if their owners allow it.
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DD joined the group COMP 650: Social Computing- Jon Dron commented on a bookmark Handful of “highly toxic” Wikipedia editors cause 9% of abuse on the site | Ars Technica
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Machines might be very good at *identifying* problems, and that's great, but humans are needed to react to and deal with them: there are infinite possible ways to do that, and there are always vastly many opportunities to heal rifts, and make things positive again. It's about humans socializing with humans and the smartest AI in the world does not yet (and likely never will) know what it is like to be a human, so will not be able to respond creatively or appropriately to that unique social context.
Jon Dron February 15, 2017 - 1:54pm
- Jon Dron commented on a bookmark jwz: Instagram Hates The Internet
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- Sandra Mulalic commented on a bookmark jwz: Instagram Hates The Internet
- Jon Dron bookmarked dlvr.it: Smart Social Media Automation
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Why Zuckerberg Is (Almost) Right About Great Talent
Started by Dickson Wai Hei Lam July 14, 2011 - 7:05pm Replies (1) Last reply by Eric von Stackelberg July 15, 2011 - 10:38amDo you agree with Zuckerberg: “Some programmers and programming teams are, indeed, 100X more productive than their more typically talented counterparts.” http://blogs.hbr.org/schrage/2011/06/why-zuckerberg-is-almost-right.html Dickson
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SCA2011: Social computing conference CFP (deadline Aug 15)
By Jon Dron July 25, 2011 - 9:17am Comments (1)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,...
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Americans’ Attitudes About Privacy, Security and Surveillance | Pew Research Center
By Jon Dron 20 May 2015 @ 8:27am Comments (3)www.pewinternet.org - Another fine Pew report on US attitudes to privacy etc. Everyone wants more, no one trusts that they are getting it. The US is a country that is singularly lacking in effective privacy legislation which is odd, given how much privacy appears to be... -
Coase's Penguin, or, Linux and the Nature of the Firm.
By Jon Dron 9 January 2017 @ 2:26pmwww.benkler.org - Yochai Benkler's seminal paper from 2002, introducing themes later explored in greater depth in the Wealth of Networks (very highly recommended, albeit very long indeed). In this shorter and earlier paper, he outlines his central notion of a third...
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Handful of “highly toxic” Wikipedia editors cause 9% of abuse on the site | Ars Technica
By Jon Dron 13 February 2017 @ 12:32pm Comments (2)arstechnica.com - Reporting on a very interesting study (linked from the article) on aggressive comments on Wikipedia pages, revealing that less than half of all personal attacks on the site are from anonymous users. Although it is true (as conventional wisdom... -
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... -
danah boyd | apophenia » Why America is Self-Segregating
By Jon Dron 23 January 2017 @ 4:31pmwww.zephoria.org - A thoughtful piece from danah boyd on how difficult it is to avoid self-segregation in online (as well as physical) communities: in simplistic terms, that we tend to gravitate to those we see as like us, away from those that seem different, and that... -
dlvr.it: Smart Social Media Automation
By Jon Dron 15 January 2017 @ 3:01pmhttps://dlvrit.com/ - One of a number of services, tools and plugins to enable syndication of content to and from various social media. As far as I can tell this is, in some ways, not quite as smart as something like Known, inasmuch as (from a cursory glance) it seems to... -
Coase's Penguin, or, Linux and the Nature of the Firm.
By Jon Dron 9 January 2017 @ 2:26pmwww.benkler.org - Yochai Benkler's seminal paper from 2002, introducing themes later explored in greater depth in the Wealth of Networks (very highly recommended, albeit very long indeed). In this shorter and earlier paper, he outlines his central notion of a third... -
115 Must Know Facts about Social Media [INFOGRAPHIC] - 2016
By Jon Dron 12 December 2016 @ 4:23pmskilled.co - Quite an interesting infographic snapshot of a (small but significant) subset of popular social media sites and their users, in infographic form, with sources. Gives a good overview of who, how, why and to what extent people tend to use some popular... -
jwz: Instagram Hates The Internet
By Jon Dron 30 March 2016 @ 11:00am Comments (3)www.jwz.org - Quite opinionated perspective on Instagram as an old fashioned bulletin board system and the deeply harmful lock-in practiced by most social media companies on the Internet today. Though the tone of the article is angry (and, strangely, doesn't... -
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... -
Taking back control of the web: an easy way to host and run secure open source apps
By Jon Dron 18 March 2016 @ 11:22ammedium.com - This sounds interesting, especially as (now but not forever) the better tiers are free. There will always be a free tier, according to the ads. It's trying to be an app store for open source web applications, allowing you to install all sorts... -
Americans’ Attitudes About Privacy, Security and Surveillance | Pew Research Center
By Jon Dron 20 May 2015 @ 8:27am Comments (3)www.pewinternet.org - Another fine Pew report on US attitudes to privacy etc. Everyone wants more, no one trusts that they are getting it. The US is a country that is singularly lacking in effective privacy legislation which is odd, given how much privacy appears to be...
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Social physics (collection from Scientific Reports at nature.com)
By Jon Dron 7 July 2020 @ 3:11pmwww.nature.com - This is an incredibly large (more than 50) and broad collection of recent articles from nature.com - all or almost all of which appear to be open access - that in some way apply methods from physics to social contexts. There's a predictably large... -
A novel approach to protecting academic freedom of speech: allow it, but do not allow it to be heard
By Jon Dron June 14, 2020 - 1:40pm Comments (1)AUFA (the Athabasca University Faculty Association) has taken a novel approach to protecting academic freedom of expression by allowing it but preventing it from being heard. -
Excellent news: Twitter Makes A Bet On Protocols Over Platforms.
By Jon Dron 11 December 2019 @ 12:05pmwww.techdirt.com - Well this is good news! Of course, the road to Hell is paved with good intentions and there is much that could go wrong in between plan and execution, but it seems that Twitter is recommitting itself to openness, standards, and the use of protocols... -
Social Media Has Not Destroyed a Generation - Scientific American
By Jon Dron 25 October 2019 @ 6:32pmwww.scientificamerican.com - Well this is not a surprise. It turns out that social media and cellphone use have little to no effect on the mental well-being of teenagers. And, having just hung out with more than 10,000 young people in Vancouver, I'd say that they seem to be... -
Premature optimism
By Jon Dron 28 February 2019 @ 3:35pmtechcrunch.com - Despite careful future-proofing and a structure that was deliberately built to evolve over time so that it would remain current, my elderly Social Computing course has pretty much reached the end of its useful life, so I have started to revise and... -
A blast from my past: Google reimplements CoFIND
By Jon Dron February 26, 2019 - 6:07pmWhile searching for a movie using Google Search last night I got (for the first time that I can recall) the option to tag the result, as described in this article. I was both very pleased and a bit disconcerted to discover that the tool they...
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You Can Learn Everything Online Except for the Things You Can't
By Jon Dron 9 August 2018 @ 1:36pm Comments (3)www.wired.com - A Wired magazine article from Rhett Allain that is big on metaphor (courses are the chocolate chips, the cookie is the on-campus experience) but very small on critical thinking. What it does highlight, though, is the failure of imagination lurking... -
Tim Berners-Lee: we must regulate tech firms to prevent 'weaponised' web
By Jon Dron 13 March 2018 @ 3:57pm Comments (2)www.theguardian.com - TBL is rightfully indignant and concerned about the fact that “what was once a rich selection of blogs and websites has been compressed under the powerful weight of a few dominant platforms.” The Web, according to Berners-Lee, is at... -
Facebook has a Big Tobacco Problem
By Jon Dron 18 February 2018 @ 12:08pmmondaynote.com - A perceptive article listing some of Facebook's evils and suggesting an analogy between the tactics used by Big Tobacco and those used by the company. I think there are a few significant differences. Big Tobacco is not one company bent on profit no...
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Hi Dr. Dron,
Interesting topic. Your comment about having reserve if this was automated reminds me of Linus Torvald's concerns when his lieutenants wanted to use automated code merges. He resisted for a while and then wrote Git. It's become common place to just trust code merges now with high degree of confidence.
What concerns you with an automated system for detecting and responding to attacks when there are known patterns? Assume of course that there these changes still hit the Wiki history and there is some way to appeal. (I'm not enticing you to write this tool though ;-) )
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Daryl Campbell February 15, 2017 - 12:57pm