| Lecture # | Date | Day | Module | Read | Skim | Due at noon |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 8/19 | W | Introduction | Travers &
Milgram Kleinfeld |
-- | -- |
| 2 | 8/24 | M | Sociological Concepts | Granovetter | Granovetter: Revisited | -- |
| 3 | 8/26 | W | Social Media and Network Analytics | McCulloh | Freeman | -- |
| -- | 8/31 | -- | -- | -- | -- | Project
report R0 (Initial proposal and team members) |
| No Class | 8/31 | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| No Class | 9/2 | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| Labor Day | 9/7 | M | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| 4 | 9/9 | W | Social Media and Network Analytics | Watts
& Strogatz Collins & Shaw |
Faust
Liben-Nowell |
-- |
| 5 | 9/14 | M | Social Media and Network Analytics | McCulloh | Valente | -- |
| 6 | 9/16 | W | Mobile Social Context Analytics | -- | Yolum & Singh Murukannaiah & Singh |
-- |
| 7 | 9/18 | F 2:00-3:15 | Crowdsourcing | Galton Vox Populi | Hooker Perry-Coste; Galton (two) |
-- |
| -- | 9/19 | -- | -- | -- | -- | Project Report R1 (Proposal) |
| 8 | 9/21 | M | Crowdsourcing: Randomized and Negative Surveys |
Warner
Mangat Esponda & Guerrero |
Bao et al. | -- |
| 9 | 9/23 | W | Human Computation: Prediction Markets Gamification Social Mobilization |
Wolfers
and Zitzewitz Pickard |
Law & von Ahn WSJ Rothschild and Sethi Rutherford |
-- |
| 10 | 9/28 | M | Human Computation: Beauty Contests |
Camerer et al. | -- | -- |
| 11 | 9/30 | W | Human Decision-Making | Tversky
& Kahneman Kahneman & Tversky |
Gigenrenzer Kahneman & Tversky Gigenrenzer |
-- |
| -- | 10/03 | -- | -- | -- | -- | P1 (Social analytics) |
| 12 | 10/5 | M | Human Decision-Making | -- | -- | -- |
| 13 | 10/7 | W | Economic Concepts | Milgrom | -- | -- |
| 14 | 10/12 | M | Auctions | -- | Ausubel and Milgrom | -- |
| 15 | 10/14 | W | Resource Allocation | -- | Gao et al. | -- |
| 16 | 10/16 | F 2:00-3:15 | Incentive Compatibility | -- | -- | -- |
| -- | 10/17 | -- | -- | -- | Solutions | H1 |
| 17 | 10/19 | M | Preference Aggregation: Voting |
Pacuit | Galton Voting | -- |
| 18 | 10/21 | W | Preference Aggregation: Voting |
Sen: Paretian | Sen: Nobel | -- |
| -- | 10/25 | -- | Exam 1 | -- | -- | Exam 1 |
| 19 | 10/26 | M | Preference Aggregation: Arrow's Theorem |
Geanakoplos | Feldman and Serrano | -- |
| 20 | 10/28 | W | Judgment Aggregation | Kornhauser and Sager | Kornhauser
and Sager Kornhauser and Sager |
-- |
| 21 | 10/30 | F 2:00-3:15 | Judgment Aggregation | Grossi & Pigozzi | Grossi & Pigozzi | -- |
| -- | 10/31 | -- | -- | -- | -- | Project Report R2 (Design and Partial Implementation) |
| 22 | 11/2 | M | Argumentation | Walton Besnard and Hunter Besnard and Hunter |
-- | -- |
| 23 | 11/4 | W | Argumentation | -- | -- | -- |
| -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | Twitter Guide |
| -- | 11/7 | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| 24 | 11/9 | M | Argumentation | -- | -- | -- |
| 25 | 11/11 | W | Norms | Sherif: Autokinesis | Sherif: Robbers Cave Sherif: status |
-- |
| 26 | 11/16 | M | Norms and Emergence: Social Simulation |
Axelrod | Epstein Ostrom |
-- |
| 27 | 11/18 | W | Sociotechnical Systems | Singh | -- | -- |
| -- | 11/21 | -- | -- | -- | -- | P2 (Crowdsourcing) |
| -- | 11/23 | -- | Exam 2 | -- | -- | Exam 2 |
| 28 | 11/23 | M | Computing Social State | Chopra and Singh | Chopra and Singh | -- |
| Thanksgiving | 11/25 | W | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| 29 | 11/30 | M | Synthesis | -- | -- | -- |
| -- | 11/30 | -- | -- | -- | Solutions | H2 |
| -- | 12/6 | -- | -- | -- | -- | Project Report R3 (Final Report) |