| SES # | TOPICS | CONTENT AND READINGS | KEY DATES |
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| 1 | Collaboration science framework |
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| 2 | Condor 1 | Introduction to Condor. Web-coolhunting, and the "communication view" to measure the popularity of topics. Download and install Condor prior to class. Information on Condor can be found in the Software section of this course. | |
| 3 | Social network analysis |
Hands-on with Gephi.
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| 4 | Condor 2 | Analyzing Twitter feeds and Facebook friends and walls. Visualizing and analyzing these results with Gephi. | |
| 5 | Measuring brands, concepts, people | What is the context and sentiment on the Web, Blogs, Facebook and Twitter of a brand or product? How can we measure the success of Web campaigns? How can we find the most influential people? | |
| 6 | Condor 3 | Analyzing your own mailbox, visualizing and analyzing the social network and the contents network (term view). | |
| 7 | Collective prediction | Predicting trends on the global level by mining the Web, Blogs, online forums, and Twitter. Examples include "Who will win the Oscars?", political elections, and movie box office success. | |
| 8 | Group analysis | Analyzing the success of startup entrepreneurs (Israel, Boston biotech, XING cases). Creating Collaborative Care Networks (C3N). | |
| 9 | No class—Holiday | ||
| 10 | Midterm project 1 | Condor coolhunting team project | |
| 11 | Midterm project 2 | Condor coolhunting team project (cont.) | |
| 12 | Midterm project 3 | Midterm exam |
Individual coolhunting assignment due In-class midterm exam |
| 13 | Virtual status meeting | Jointly with Helsinki/Cologne/SCAD. Team formation on Flashmeeting. | |
| 14 | Sociometric badges | Analyzing individual creativity and knowledge flow optimization. | |
| 15 | Virtual status meeting | Virtual project update with Flashmeeting with Savannah, Cologne, Helsinki students and instructors. | |
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Student presentation:Aral, Sinan, and Dylan Walker. "Creating Social Contagion Through Viral Product Design: A Randomized Trial of Peer Influence in Networks." Management Science 57, no. 9 (2011): 1623–39. Traud, Amanda L., Peter J. Mucha, et al. "Social Structure of Facebook Networks." Hill, R. A., and R. I. M. Dunbar. "Social Network Size in Humans." Human Nature 14, no. 1 (2003): 53–72. | Group A presentation due | |
| 17 | Virtual mirror | Presentation of team networking results—analyzing communication in class using dynamic social network analysis and Condor. | |
| 18 | Wikipedia |
Learning from Wikipedians for efficient open source project management in different cultures. Student presentation:Kittur, Aniket, and Robert E. Kraut. "Harnessing the Wisdom of Crowds in Wikipedia: Quality Through Coordination." CSCW '08 Proceedings of the 2008 ACM conference on Computer supported cooperative work, 2008. Liu, Jun, and Sudha Ram. "Who Does What: Collaboration Patterns in the Wikipedia and Their Impact on Data Quality." ACM Transactions on Management Information Systems 2, no. 2 (2011): 175–80. Welser, Howard T., Dan Cosley, et al. "Finding Social Roles in Wikipedia." Proceedings of the 2011 iConference, 2011. | Group B presentation due |
| 19 | Altruism and behavioral economics |
Coolfarming—Nurturing COINs in the virtual and real world. Self-organizing, intrinsically motivated project management. To become a better manager stop being a manager. Student presentation:Judge, Timothy A., and John D. Kammeyer-Mueller. "Happiness as a Societal Value Why Happiness Is Worthy of Study." Academy of Management Perspectives 25, no. 1 (2008): 30–42. Frey, Bruno S. "Happy People Live Longer." Science 331, no. 6017 (2011): 542–3. Ariely, Dan, Uri Gneezy, et al. "Large Stakes and Big Mistakes." Review of Economic Studies 76, no. 2 (2009): 451–69. Hassanpour, Navid. "Media Disruption Exacerbates Revolutionary Unrest: Evidence from Mubarak's Natural Experiment." APSA 2011 Annual Meeting Paper (2011). | Group C presentation due |
| 20 | Coolhunting results | Presentation of online social network analysis and prediction results. | |
| 21 | No class—Q&A final project work | ||
| 22 | No class—Holiday | ||
| 23 | Virtual status meeting | Virtual project update with Flashmeeting with Savannah, Cologne, Helsinki students and instructors. | |
| 24 | Twitter and prediction markets |
Student presentation:Bollen, Johan, Bruno Goncalves, et al. "Happiness is Assortative in Online Social Networks." Artificial Life 17, no. 3 (2011): 237–51. Bollen, Johan, Huina Mao, et al. "Twitter Mood Predicts the Stock Market." Journal of Computational Science 2, no. 1 (2011): 1–8. Wolfers, Justin, and Eric Zitzewitz. "Prediction Markets." Journal of Economic Perspectives 18, no. 2 (2004): 107–26. Ott, Myle, Yejin Choi, et al. "Finding Deceptive Opinion Spam by Any Stretch of the Imagination." HLT '11 Proceedings of the 49th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, 2011. | Group D presentation due |
| 25 | No class—Q&A final project work | ||
| 26 | Coolfarming results | Presentation of final results and insights of coolhunting and coolfarming projects. | Group project due |
