Advanced Topics in Computer Science: Social Computing

We use computational systems to interact with our friends and foes, our team partners and romantic partners, and our organizations and societies. How do we design these social computing systems to be effective and responsible? How does technology shape social interaction? This seminar covers the design patterns for social computing, and the foundational social scientific and technical concepts that underpin them. We read and discuss foundational and recent papers exploring different methods in social computing. Students conduct a research project on building, evaluating, or theorizing about a new social computing design.