Week 5: Contemporary Social Computing

The growing availability and adoption of Internet technology has resulted in an explosion of social and collaborative computing tools. We'll talk about how the new generation of social computing differs from more traditional CSCW, and also what aspects remain consistently important.

Week 5 Readings: Contemporary Social Computing

Readings are available in the Content section of myCourses:

• Sen, S. et al. (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.
• Musser, J. (2006). Web 2.0 Principles and Best Practices. O'Reilly & Associates, Sebastopol, CA.
• Carron, C, Favier, J., and Li, C. (2006). Social Computing. Forrester Associates.

Week 5 Lab Assignment: Refining Your Weblog

This week I'd like you to add categories to your weblog. At a minimum, you need categories for entry type (e.g. assigned reading review, additional reading review, lab assignment, etc) and week (week 1, week 2, week 3). You may choose to add other categories as well.

Once you've created the categories, go through your existing entries and add appropriate categories to each one.

Finally, take the time to look through your classmate's blogs this week. Leave a comment or two along the way when you see an entry that you find particularly interesting or problematic. Write a post in your blog highlighting one or two entries that you enjoyed reading, and explain what you liked or disagreed with.