Recommended Readings & Links

• Bimber, Bruce, Andrew J. Flanagin, and Cynthia Stohl. 2005. "Reconceptualizing Collective Action in the Contemporary Media Environment." Communication Theory 15:365-388.[download bimber, et al.pdf]
• Bose, R. and Frew, J. 2005. Lineage retrieval for scientific data processing: A survey. ACM Computing Surveys 37(1), 1-28. [download bose & frew.pdf]
• Remixing Çatalhöyük is a project using new media to explore and summarize information about Çatalhöyük, a 9000-year-old village located in present-day Turkey: http://okapi.dreamhosters.com/remixing/mainpage.html
• For those who are Second Life users, this link should take you to Okapi Island, a virtual reconstruction of the excavation of Çatalhöyük: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Okapi/128/128/0
• "Exposed" by Emily Gould about blogging to appear in the Sunday's Times Magazine was pretty interesting. http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/25/magazine/25internet-t.html?hp
• My suggestion for reading is the latest special issue in the Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication on Social Network Sites. http://jcmc.indiana.edu/vol13/issue1/
  • The first article is a particularly good summary of the latest research on social network websites. Social Network Sites: Definition, History, and Scholarship danah m. boyd and Nicole B. Ellison http://jcmc.indiana.edu/vol13/issue1/boyd.ellison.html
• Kollock, P. & Braziel, E.R. (2006). How not to build an online market: The sociology of market microstructure. Social Psychology of the Workplace Advances in Group Processes, 23, 283-306. [download kollock.pdf]
• Leah A. Lievrouw  (2006). Oppositional and activist new media: Remediation, reconfiguration, participation. In G. Jacucci, F. Kensing, I. Wagner and J. Blomberg (Eds.), Proceedings of the Participatory Design Conference, PDC 2006: Expanding Boundaries in Design, pp. 115-124. Trento, Italy, July 31-August 5. Palo Alto, CA: Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility and Association for Computing Machinery.
• Michael Jensen, "The New Metrics of Scholarly Authority," Chronicle Review (Chronicle of Higher Education), 53, no. 41 (15 June 2007): B6, available online http://chronicle.com/free/v53/i41/41b00601.htm
• Carl Zimmer, "From Ants to People, an Instinct to Swarm," New York Times, 13 November 2007 (on Ian Duncan's modelings of animal swarms), http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/13/science/13traff.html
  • Excerpt from "Ants Have Algorithms: A Talk with Ian Couzin," Edge, 13 March 2008 http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/couzin08/couzin08_index.html
• Viégas, F. B., M. Wattenberg, and M. M. McKeon (2007). The hidden order of Wikipedia. In D. Schuler (Ed.), Online Communities and Social Computing (HCII 2007), Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pp. 445–454. Berlin: Springer.
• Jaron Lanier, "Digital Maoism" (http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/lanier06/lanier06_index.html) Sanger
• Check out the latest additions to http://maps.google.com/ (photos and Wikipedia links)
• http://www.larrysanger.org/
• History Flows: Wikipedia Edit History Visualizations. Fernanda B. Viegas, Martin Wattenberg, & Kushal Dave, MIT Media Lab & IBM Research http://www.research.ibm.com/visual/projects/history_flow/results.htm
• Wikiscanner: Publicly searchable database that links anonymous Wikipedia edits to where the edits came from. Virgil Griffith Santa Fe Institute, CalTech http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WikiScanner http://wikiscanner.virgil.gr/
• Trust Coloring. Luca de Alfaro, B. Thomas Adler, Krishnendu Chatterjeee, Iam Pye, Vishwanath Raman, Marco Faella UCSC Wiki Lab http://trust.cse.ucsc.edu/
• Swamynathan, G., Wilson, C., Boe, B., Almeroth, K.C., & Zhao, B.Y. (forthcoming). Do Social Networks Improve e-Commerce? A Study on Social Marketplaces. To be presented at ACM SIGCOMM 2008. [ download swamynathan, et al.pdf]
• Wikidashboard. PARC research. http://wikidashboard.parc.com/ http://asc-parc.blogspot.com/2007/08/wikidashboard-providing-social.html
• http://www.panoramio.com/ Post geo-coded photographs (a great layer in Google Earth)
• http://www.touchgraph.com Graph visualization for social network or web site hierarchies.
• http://www.gigapan.org/ Explore really high-resolution images with other users
• http://metaverseroadmap.org/resources.html
• Bowker, G. C. Memory Practices in the Sciences. MIT Press,  Cambridge, Mass, 2005.
• Handouts from UCSB Social Computing Workshop [ download handout1.jpg | handout2.jpg]

Readings & Links related to the workshop's discussions

• TouchGraph for social network visualization http://touchgraph.com/TGGoogleBrowser.html
•  label your network connections as friends or foes: http://www.essembly.com/
• CHI2008 paper on Essembly Friend of Foe: Ideological Social Networking
•  YouTube's parody of Facebook in reality http://youtube.com/watch?v=nrlSkU0TFLs
•  Where's George http://www.wheresgeorge.com/
• Many Eyes collaborative data visualization www.many-eyes.com
• Citizendium http://en.citizendium.org/wiki/Main_Page
• Amazon's Kindle
• Stanford Laptop Orchestra