Social Computing

Today we interact with our friends and enemies, our team partners and romantic partners, and our organizations and societies, all through computational systems. How do we design these social computing systems to be effective and responsible? This course covers design patterns for social computing systems, and the foundational social scientific and technical concepts that underpin them. Students will engage in the creation of new computationally-mediated social environments.

Week	Assignments	Tuesday	Thursday
1: March 30 - April 3 Unit 1: Something from Nothing	Assignment 1: Going Viral Submission due Tuesday April 7 at 11:59pm Votes due Friday April 10 at 11:59pm	Going Viral	Bustling Streets and Ghost Towns
2: April 6-10	Project Proposal + Piggyback Prototype Due Wednesday April 15 at 11:59pm Week 2 Reading Responses due Wednesday April 8 at 11:59pm	Norms	Cold Start
3: April 13-17	Project Milestone Due Wednesday May 6 at 11:59pm Week 3 Reading Responses due Wednesday April 15 at 11:59pm	Guest Lecture or cancelled (Lindsay at CHI)	No lecture (Lindsay at CHI)
4: April 20-24 Unit 2: Oh #@&%, It Got Big	Assignment 2: Community Simulation Due Tuesday April 28 at 11:59pm Week 4 Reading Responses due Wednesday April 22 at 11:59pm	Growing Pains	Feed Ranking
5: April 27-May 1 Unit 3: We Work	Week 5 Reading Responses due Wednesday April 29 at 11:59pm Assignment 3: Let's Crowdsource An Exam Questions due Tuesday May 5 at 11:59pm Remixes due Thursday May 7 at 11:59pm Votes due Monday May 11 at 11:59pm Reflection due Friday May 22 at 11:59pm	Strong and Weak	Wisdom of the Crowd
6: May 4-8		Peer Production	Group Collaboration
7: May 11-15 Unit 4: Don't Feed the Trolls	Exam Question Bank Published Using A3 Data Released on Wednesday May 13 Week 7 Reading Responses due Wednesday May 13 at 11:59pm	Anti-Social Computing	Content Moderation
8: May 18-22		Exam	Misinformation
9: May 25-29 Unit 5: AIs in Social Environments	Week 9 Reading Responses due Wednesday May 27 at 11:59pm	AIs in Social Environments	Governance
10: June 1-5	Project Final Report Due Friday June 5 at 11:59pm	Unintended Consequences	End-quarter period: no class

Lecture

Tuesday+Thursday 10:30pm-11:50pm
NVIDIA Auditorium

Faculty

Lindsay Popowski Office hours: Wed 2:30–3:45pm, CoDa E350

Teaching Assistants

Ed Forum If you have a question that any TA could answer, please make an Ed post.
Anavi Baddepudi (Head TA) Office hours: [TO BE FILLED IN], Zoom
Jordan Troutman Office hours: [TO BE FILLED IN]
Angela Mao Office hours: [TO BE FILLED IN]
Poonam Sahoo Office hours: [TO BE FILLED IN]

The link for all Zoom Office Hours can be found on Ed.

Social Computing

1: March 30 - April 3

Unit 1: Something from Nothing

2: April 6-10

3: April 13-17

4: April 20-24

Unit 2: Oh #@&%, It Got Big

5: April 27-May 1

Unit 3: We Work

6: May 4-8

7: May 11-15

Unit 4: Don't Feed the Trolls

8: May 18-22

9: May 25-29

Unit 5: AIs in Social Environments

10: June 1-5

Lecture

Faculty

Teaching Assistants