COIN83 Web 2.0 / Social Computing
Welcome to Social Computing in a Global Context. This website contains the pages you will access through ETUDES. You may navigate the COIN83 course directly through this website, and quickly access the lecture topics for each week. Please remember that your assignments follow a schedule as shown in ETUDES, and you must submit all your work, as pasted text, through ETUDES. If you have questions, please email me, and always include COIN83 in the subject line of your correspondence.
Course information
- Course summary - please review this before you start the course
- Syllabus - course syllabus
- Grading - course grading
- Assignments - course assignment description
- Links - case studies and articles
- Final project - description of your final project
Lessons
Each lesson contains lecture material, links to resources, and the assignment.
- Lesson 1 - Social Computing and context of Web 2.0/3.0/4.0
- Lesson 2 - Wikinomics and Macrowikinomics
- Lesson 3 - Web 2.0 technology
- Lesson 4 - Web Portals
- Lesson 5 - Social computing & networking, Social Networking Analysis (SNA)
- Lesson 6 - Web as a Platform for Distributed Computing
- Lesson 7 - Organizational Trends and Collaboration Tools and Process
- Lesson 8 - Open Innovation - Building Social and Enterprise Knowledge
- Lesson 9 - Social data / media & open data
- Lesson 10 - Putting Social Networks to Work: Social Change
- Lesson 11 - Social Media and Revolutionary Change
- Lesson 12 - Course Reflections / Big Ideas
Resources
Required Reading:
"Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything" by Don Tapscott and Anthony D. Williams. ISBN-10: 1591841933
Strongly Recommended Reading:
"Building Social Business: The New Kind of Capitalism That Serves Humanity's Most Pressing Needs" by Mohammad Yunus. ISBN-13: 978-1586488246
"Collaboration 2.0: Technology and Best Practices for Successful Collaboration in a Web 2.0 World" by David Coleman and Stewart Levine. ISBN-13: 978-1600050718
"Crowdsourcing" by Jeff Howe. ISBN-10: 0307396207
"Groundswell: Winning in a World Transformed by Social Technologies" by Charlene Li and Josh Bernoff. ISBN-10: 0132244799
"The Wisdom of Crowds" by James Surowiecki. ISBN-10: 0385721706
"Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us" by Seth Godin. ISBN-13: 978-1591842330
"The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference" by Malcolm Gladwell. ISBN-10: 0316346624
"We Are Smarter Than Me: How to Unleash the Power of Crowds in Your Business" by Barry Libert and Jon Spector. ISBN-10: 0132244799
"Wikipatterns" by Stewart Mader. ISBN-10: 0470223626
Websites:
Wired Online - articles on how technology affects culture, the economy, and politics
Socialnomics - Word of mouth for social good at www.socialnomics.net
Tutorials and Resources
- Using ETUDES - a good tutorial to start using our course management system
- Library2go - use your local library card to check out and download audiobooks
- Presentations - COIN83 PowerPoint presentations folder
