Perspectives on Computer Mediation • Spring 2008


Readings: Defining Computer Mediation

11 March 2008 | Comments (0)

Readings on Mediated Identity

  • Donath, J.S. Identity and Deception in the Virtual Community. In M. Smith and P. Kollock (eds.) 1998. Communities in Cyberspace. London: Routledge.
  • Goffman, E. Introduction and Chapter 1 from The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life. New York: Doubleday, 1956.
  • Hiltz, S. R. and Turoff, M. The Network Nation: Human Communication Via Computer (Revised Edition). Cambridge: MIT Press, 1993. Pages 76-103.

(Goffman and HIltz/Turoff readings will be handed out in class on Tuesday, and also made available in myCourses.)

13 March 2008 | Comments (0)

Readings on Research Contexts for Mediation: CMC, CSCW, CSCL, Social Computing

  • Grudin, J. (1991). CSCW: the convergence of two development contexts. Paper presented at the Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on Human factors in computing systems: Reaching through technology.
  • Grudin, J. (1994). Computer-supported cooperative work: history and focus. Computer, 27(5), 19-26.
  • Wang, F.-Y., Carley, K. M., Zeng, D., & Mao, W. (2007). Social Computing: From Social Informatics to Social Intelligence. Intelligent Systems, 22(2), 79-83.
  • Williams, S., & Roberts, T. S. (2002). Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning: Strengths and weaknesses. Paper presented at the International Conference on Computers in Education.

All readings available in the Content section of myCourses.

18 March 2008 | Comments (0)

Readings on Research Approaches to CMC

  • Gifford, B.R. and Enyedy, N.D. Activity Centered Design: Towards a Theoretical Framework for CSCL
  • Halverson, C. Activity theory and distributed cognition: or What does CSCW need to do with theories?
  • Nardi, B.A. Coda and Response to Christine Halverson
20 March 2008 | Comments (0)

Readings on Mediation of Work and Organizational Process

The following readings can be downloaded from the Content section in myCourses:

Palen, L. (1999). Social, individual and technological issues for groupware calendar systems. Paper presented at the Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on Human factors in computing systems: the CHI is the limit, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States.

Prinz, W., & Zaman, B. (2005). Proactive support for the organization of shared workspaces using activity patterns and content analysis. Paper presented at the Proceedings of the 2005 international ACM SIGGROUP conference on Supporting group work, Sanibel Island, Florida, USA.

Rama, J., & Bishop, J. (2006). A survey and comparison of cscw groupware applications. Paper presented at the Proceedings of the 2006 annual research conference of the South African institute of computer scientists and information technologists on IT research in developing couuntries, Somerset West, South Africa.

Redmiles, D., Wilensky, H., Kosaka, K., & de Paula, R. (2005). What ideal end users teach us about collaborative software. Paper presented at the Proceedings of the 2005 international ACM SIGGROUP conference on Supporting group work, Sanibel Island, Florida, USA.

25 March 2008 | Comments (0)

Readings on CSCL

  • Bruckman, A. (2002). The future of e-learning communities. Commun. ACM, 45(4), 60-63.
  • Jones, C., Dirckinck-Holmfeld, L., & Lindtr, B. (2005). CSCL - the next ten years: a view from Europe. Paper presented at the 2005 conference on Computer support for collaborative learning: learning 2005: the next 10 years!
  • Ssemugabi, S., & Villiers, R. D. (2007). A comparative study of two usability evaluation methods using a web-based e-learning application. Paper presented at the Proceedings of the 2007 annual research conference of the South African institute of computer scientists and information technologists on IT research in developing countries.
  • Williams, S., & Roberts, T. S. (2002). Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning: Strengths and weaknesses. Paper presented at the International Conference on Computers in Education. [this paper was assigned week 1, and should be reviewed again for this week's class]
1 April 2008 | Comments (1)

Readings on Trust and Reputation

These articles are in the myCourses system, or can be retrieved from the ACM Digital Library using an RIT login.

  • Resnick, P., Kuwabara, K., Zeckhauser, R., and Friedman, E. 2000. Reputation systems. Commun. ACM 43, 12 (Dec. 2000), 45-48. DOI= http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/355112.355122
  • Shneiderman, B. 2000. Designing trust into online experiences. Commun. ACM 43, 12 (Dec. 2000), 57-59. DOI= http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/355112.355124
  • Terveen, L. and McDonald, D. W. 2005. Social matching: A framework and research agenda. ACM Trans. Comput.-Hum. Interact. 12, 3 (Sep. 2005), 401-434. DOI= http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1096737.1096740
22 April 2008 | Comments (0)

Readings on Cooperation and Collaboration

  • Marlow, C., Naaman, M., Boyd, D., and Davis, M. 2006. HT06, tagging paper, taxonomy, Flickr, academic article, to read. In Proceedings of the Seventeenth Conference on Hypertext and Hypermedia (Odense, Denmark, August 22 - 25, 2006). HYPERTEXT '06. ACM Press, New York, NY, 31-40. DOI= http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1149941.1149949
  • Millen, D. R., Feinberg, J., and Kerr, B. 2006. Dogear: Social bookmarking in the enterprise. In Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (Montréal, Québec, Canada, April 22 - 27, 2006). R. Grinter, T. Rodden, P. Aoki, E. Cutrell, R. Jeffries, and G. Olson, Eds. CHI '06. ACM Press, New York, NY, 111-120. DOI= http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1124772.1124792
  • Sen, S., Lam, S. K., Rashid, A., Cosley, D., Frankowski, D., Osterhouse, J., Harper, F. M., and Riedl, J. 2006. tagging, communities, vocabulary, evolution. In Proceedings of the 2006 20th Anniversary Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work (Banff, Alberta, Canada, November 04 - 08, 2006). CSCW '06. ACM Press, New York, NY, 181-190. DOI= http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1180875.1180904
  • Sen, S., Geyer, W., Muller, M., Moore, M., Brownholtz, B., Wilcox, E., and Millen, D. R. 2006. FeedMe: a collaborative alert filtering system. In Proceedings of the 2006 20th Anniversary Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work (Banff, Alberta, Canada, November 04 - 08, 2006). CSCW '06. ACM Press, New York, NY, 89-98. DOI= http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1180875.1180890
24 April 2008 | Comments (0)

Readings on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing

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29 April 2008 | Comments (1)

Readings on Mediation Issues in Gaming & Entertainment Computing

Williams, Dmitri. (2006) "Why Game Studies Now? Gamers Don't Bowl Alone." Games and Culture 1(1), 13-16.

Pearce, Celia. (2006) "Productive Play: Game Culture From the Bottom Up." Games and Culture 1(1), 17-24.

Yee, Nick. (2006) "The Labor of Fun: How Video Games Blur the Boundaries of Work and Play." Games and Culture 1(1), 68-71.

Steinkuehler, Constance A. (2006) "Why Game (Culture) Studies Now?" Games and Culture 1(1) 97-102.

6 May 2008 | Comments (0)

Readings on Community

  • Oldenburg, Ray. (1999) The Great Good Place: Cafes, Coffee Shops, Bookstores, Bars, Hair Salons and Other Hangouts at the Heart of a Community. 2nd edition. New York: Marlowe & Company. (Preface and Chapters 1-3 are all available in PDF via myCourses; you only need to read the preface and chapter 1 but I've included the other two chapters in case you find the book interesting and want to read the rest)
  • Putnam, Robert D. (2000) Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community. New York: Simon & Schuster. (Chapters 1 and 9 are all available in PDF via myCourses)
  • Tonnies, Ferdinand. (2001) Community and Civil Society. (Available via RIT's ebrary service; read book one, pages 17-91)
13 May 2008 | Comments (0)