Course Outline

1. January 08: Introduction - Web 2.0, History of social web
2. January 15: Social Navigation - Social Search
3. January 22: Collaborative Filtering - Digital media, podcasting
4. January 29: Virtual Communities - Collaborative Peer rating
5. February 05: Supporting Technologies: Javascript, Ajax, SOAP, REST, RSS
6. February 12: APIs and Mash-ups
7. February 19: Sharing: Files and Music, Images, URLs, Videos - Collaborative content management (DRUPAL)
8. February 26: Publishing: Blogs - Collaborative Publishing: Wikis, Wikipedia
9. March 04: Social Booomarking, Tagging, Folksonomy - Discussing and socializing: Forums, Social Networking Sites, Social Network Visualization
10. March 11: no class - spring recess
11. March 18: Social Network Analysis - Social Awareness
12. March 25: Trust and Reputation - Master's students presentation I
13. April 01: Privacy, Ethics of Participation - Master's students presentation II
14. April 08: Behavioral Theories: Social Psychology, Economics - One of the related issues: Art and the Social Web, or Education and the Social Web.
15. April 15: Issues of online communities: Participation, Lurking, Relationships, Social Capital - One of the related issues: Political Activism and the Social Web or The Future of the Social Web
16. April 22: Final project presentations