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COMP 650: Social Computing
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This group is intended to support COMP650, 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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Matthew Charette bookmarked The Facebook Papers- Jon Dron commented on a bookmark The Good Place
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- Narius Farhad Davar commented on a bookmark Inisde - Bo Burnham
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I enjoyed this, too, and I didn't make the connection with last week's work: thanks for the reminder. For those not wanting to watch (or wanting to know more about it) there's an overview of the special at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bo_Burnham:_Inside
When my kids came to have a look at my half-finished new office (formerly bedroom) a couple of weeks ago they observed that it looked very much indeed like Bo Burnham's room: a lot of cables, microphones, cameras, musical instruments, lighting, computers, monitors, a chair, a desk, and not much else. I felt quite pleased.
Jon Dron October 18, 2021 - 3:55pm
Thanks Matt, I have been looking for something to watch on Netflix.
Narius Farhad Davar October 18, 2021 - 10:31pm
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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
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,...
The Facebook Papers
By Matthew Charette 25 October 2021 @ 12:57pmapnews.com - The bad times continue to role for Facebook. Intresting article outlining the systemmic organizational and cultural issues facing Facebook amid it's already declining user base. Facebook's inertia on the fundamental issues of...Course: Applied Social Network Analysis in Education
By Jon Dron 23 October 2021 @ 1:46pmbookdown.org - This is an interesting and largely open course that teaches social network analysis, applied in the context of education (though it is much more about social network analysis in general). It has quite comprehensive coverage, including ethical...The Good Place
By Matthew Charette 22 October 2021 @ 7:29am Comments (1)http://www.netflix.com - This week we are discussing ethical design and we began with an overview of ethics in general. If anyone hasn't seen it, I recommend watching The Good Place which is available on Netflix. Aside from being pretty funny and very unique, the...Inisde - Bo Burnham
By Matthew Charette 18 October 2021 @ 2:42pm Comments (2)http://www.netflix.com - Week 5 from of COMP650 saw us looking into cyberbullying and general abuse online. This led me down some interesting rabbit holes, a lot of which were centered around self-worth/self identification and how the internet has implicated those in...
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...We still need to unlock the web
By Jon Dron 26 September 2020 @ 11:20amwerd.io - This is a bit of brainstorming by the ever wonderful and utterly brilliant Ben Werdmüller von Elgg (one of the originators of the Elgg social media framework that sits under the Landing) on methods and standards for setting up payments for...
The Facebook Papers
By Matthew Charette 25 October 2021 @ 12:57pmapnews.com - The bad times continue to role for Facebook. Intresting article outlining the systemmic organizational and cultural issues facing Facebook amid it's already declining user base. Facebook's inertia on the fundamental issues of...Course: Applied Social Network Analysis in Education
By Jon Dron 23 October 2021 @ 1:46pmbookdown.org - This is an interesting and largely open course that teaches social network analysis, applied in the context of education (though it is much more about social network analysis in general). It has quite comprehensive coverage, including ethical...The Good Place
By Matthew Charette 22 October 2021 @ 7:29am Comments (1)http://www.netflix.com - This week we are discussing ethical design and we began with an overview of ethics in general. If anyone hasn't seen it, I recommend watching The Good Place which is available on Netflix. Aside from being pretty funny and very unique, the...Inisde - Bo Burnham
By Matthew Charette 18 October 2021 @ 2:42pm Comments (2)http://www.netflix.com - Week 5 from of COMP650 saw us looking into cyberbullying and general abuse online. This led me down some interesting rabbit holes, a lot of which were centered around self-worth/self identification and how the internet has implicated those in...UBCO study says it’s not if, but how people use social media that impacts their well-being
By Jon Dron 16 November 2020 @ 6:04pm Comments (1)news.ok.ubc.ca - This is a report on an interesting study which, unsurprisingly, confirms previous findings that the use of popular social media (in this case Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter) correlates very closely with negative feelings, reduced well-being, and...We still need to unlock the web
By Jon Dron 26 September 2020 @ 11:20amwerd.io - This is a bit of brainstorming by the ever wonderful and utterly brilliant Ben Werdmüller von Elgg (one of the originators of the Elgg social media framework that sits under the Landing) on methods and standards for setting up payments for...Five Things We Need to Know About Technological Change, by Neil Postman
By Jon Dron 25 September 2020 @ 12:36pm Comments (4)web.cs.ucdavis.edu - I mentioned this in a reply I recently made to a post by Gio (and comments by Jenny), but it occurs to me that it deserves a more prominent place in a course on social computing so here it is. I consider this very short talk given by Postman to be...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...LambdaMOO Takes a New Direction
By Jon Dron 19 August 2020 @ 10:53amwww.cc.gatech.edu - This is a fantastic example - from 1992 - of how it is completely impossible to separate out the digital technologies from the social technologies (the rules, norms, procedures, etc) in a social software system. Social software is not just code: it...WT.Social
By Jon Dron 18 August 2020 @ 10:31pm Comments (1)https://wt.social/ - A social network that you can pay for, created by Jimmy Wales (of Wikipedia fame). You can get in right away with no payment but I chose to pay because I believe in this kind of thing. It looks pretty cool, more set-like than network-like. From the...
Informal Learning in Digital Contexts: another chapter by me and @terguy from Springer's...
By Jon Dron April 19, 2022 - 5:15pmThis is the second of two chapters by Terry Anderson and me (the other being on the topic of pedagogical paradigms, that I shared a week or two ago) from Springer's Handbook of Open, Distance, and Digital Education.The 'paradigms' chapter more or...Gather is a remarkable retro but modern collaboration, cooperation, and socialization system: I...
By Jon Dron 9 November 2021 @ 7:15pmcelinelatulipe.medium.com - The other day a small group of students and I had a really interesting experimental classroom session in Gather. The article linked here describes a much bigger-scale and intentional approach. If you're not familiar with Gather, its a web-based...The Uncensored Library – Reporters without borders
By Jon Dron 8 November 2021 @ 9:37amwww.uncensoredlibrary.com - This is very cool - a library of articles and journals that have been censored in various regions, built inside Minecraft, that thereby evades censorship (for now). It lends a whole different meaning to 'serious games'.Just a Game? Study Shows No Evidence That Violent Video Games Lead To Real-Life Violence -...
By Jon Dron 6 November 2021 @ 11:32amneurosciencenews.com - This is a report on a plausible US-based study on the effects of violent video games, with a fairly large number of subjects (all boys for the detailed study, though also investigating broader patterns across genders). It finds no causal...The Facebook Papers
By Matthew Charette 25 October 2021 @ 12:57pmapnews.com - The bad times continue to role for Facebook. Intresting article outlining the systemmic organizational and cultural issues facing Facebook amid it's already declining user base. Facebook's inertia on the fundamental issues of...Course: Applied Social Network Analysis in Education
By Jon Dron 23 October 2021 @ 1:46pmbookdown.org - This is an interesting and largely open course that teaches social network analysis, applied in the context of education (though it is much more about social network analysis in general). It has quite comprehensive coverage, including ethical...Inisde - Bo Burnham
By Matthew Charette 18 October 2021 @ 2:42pm Comments (2)http://www.netflix.com - Week 5 from of COMP650 saw us looking into cyberbullying and general abuse online. This led me down some interesting rabbit holes, a lot of which were centered around self-worth/self identification and how the internet has implicated those in...UBCO study says it’s not if, but how people use social media that impacts their well-being
By Jon Dron 16 November 2020 @ 6:04pm Comments (1)news.ok.ubc.ca - This is a report on an interesting study which, unsurprisingly, confirms previous findings that the use of popular social media (in this case Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter) correlates very closely with negative feelings, reduced well-being, and...Echoes and polarization in Facebook, Reddit, and Twitter: it's not just about the algorithms
By Jon Dron 30 October 2020 @ 3:48pmwww.washingtonpost.com - The authors of a recent paywalled article in MIS Quarterly here summarize their findings in another restrictive and normally paywalled site, the Washington Post. At least the latter gives some access - I was able to read it without forking out $15,...
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Nice find! As a philosophy graduate with an ongoing interest in ethics I have much enjoyed the series myself. I believe that the writing team included professional philosophers to help generate and critique the plot, so there's a lot of academic depth hiding just beneath the entertaining and absurd surface. It's quite fun trying to spot the philosophers/schools of philosophy being called upon in each episode, as well as in the broader trajectory of the plot.
Jon Dron October 22, 2021 - 9:54am