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COMP 650: Social Computing
Owner: Jon Dron
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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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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 wisdom of crowds versus the madness of mobs: An evolutionary model of bias, polarization, and...
By Jon Dron 29 October 2022 @ 10:19amjournals.sagepub.com - This is a math-heavy, long, but extremely rewarding paper modelling collective behaviour from a dynamic evolutionary perspective, demonstrating (I think very effectively) that collective ignorance and polarization are likely to be amplified by...Social Media Use Linked to Developing Depression Regardless of Personality | University of Arkansas
By Jon Dron 4 October 2022 @ 5:00pmnews.uark.edu - This describes an interesting study that seems to confirm social media use can be harmful no matter who you are though, as the article notes, more research is needed to confirm the findings. Quite a few similar studies have come to quite similar...
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 wisdom of crowds versus the madness of mobs: An evolutionary model of bias, polarization, and...
By Jon Dron 29 October 2022 @ 10:19amjournals.sagepub.com - This is a math-heavy, long, but extremely rewarding paper modelling collective behaviour from a dynamic evolutionary perspective, demonstrating (I think very effectively) that collective ignorance and polarization are likely to be amplified by...Social Media Use Linked to Developing Depression Regardless of Personality | University of Arkansas
By Jon Dron 4 October 2022 @ 5:00pmnews.uark.edu - This describes an interesting study that seems to confirm social media use can be harmful no matter who you are though, as the article notes, more research is needed to confirm the findings. Quite a few similar studies have come to quite similar...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...
The wisdom of crowds versus the madness of mobs: An evolutionary model of bias, polarization, and...
By Jon Dron 29 October 2022 @ 10:19amjournals.sagepub.com - This is a math-heavy, long, but extremely rewarding paper modelling collective behaviour from a dynamic evolutionary perspective, demonstrating (I think very effectively) that collective ignorance and polarization are likely to be amplified by...Social Media Use Linked to Developing Depression Regardless of Personality | University of Arkansas
By Jon Dron 4 October 2022 @ 5:00pmnews.uark.edu - This describes an interesting study that seems to confirm social media use can be harmful no matter who you are though, as the article notes, more research is needed to confirm the findings. Quite a few similar studies have come to quite similar...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...
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