| Lecture # | Date | Day | Module | Read | Skim | Due at noon |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1/6 | M | Introduction | Travers &
Milgram Kleinfeld |
-- | -- |
| 2 | 1/8 | W | Social Media | Granovetter | Granovetter v2 | -- |
| 3 | 1/13 | M | Social Relationships | McCulloh | Freeman | -- |
| 4 | 1/15 | W | Social Network Analysis | Watts
& Strogatz Collins & Shaw |
Faust | -- |
| 5 | 1/16 | H | Social Network Analysis | McCulloh | -- | -- |
| MLK Day | 1/20 | M | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| 6 | 1/22 | W | Social Network Analysis | -- | Yolum & Singh | -- |
| 7 | 1/23 | H | Crowdsourcing | Galton Vox Populi | Hooker Perry-Coste; Galton (two) |
-- |
| -- | 1/25 | -- | -- | -- | -- | Project
report R0 (Ideas to pursue and team members) |
| 8 | 1/27 | M | Crowdsourcing: Beauty Contests |
-- | -- | -- |
| Snow | 1/29 | W | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| 9 | 1/30 | H | Crowdsourcing: Randomized and Negative Surveys |
Warner Mangat |
-- | -- |
| No Class | 2/3 | M | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| 10 | 2/5 | W | Human Computation | -- | Law & von Ahn | -- |
| 11 | 2/10 | M | Mobility and Social Context | -- | -- | -- |
| -- | 2/9 | -- | -- | -- | -- | Project Report R1 (Initial proposal) |
| Snow | 2/12 | W | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| Snow | 2/13 | H | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| No Class | 2/17 | M | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| -- | 2/18 | -- | -- | -- | -- | P1 (Social analytics) |
| No Class | 2/19 | W | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| 12 | 2/24 | M | Markets and Gamification | Wolfers
and Zitzewitz Rothschild, Sethi |
WSJ | -- |
| 13 | 2/25 | T | Incentive Mechanisms | Galton Voting | -- | -- |
| 14 | 2/26 | W | Incentive Mechanisms | -- | -- | -- |
| 15 | 2/27 | H | Incentive Mechanisms | -- | -- | -- |
| -- | 3/2 | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| Snow | 3/3 | M | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| 16 | 3/5 | W | Incentive Mechanisms | -- | -- | -- |
| Spring Break | 3/10 | M | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| Spring Break | 3/12 | W | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| 17 | 3/17 | M | Aggregation Methods | -- | -- | -- |
| -- | 3/18 | -- | Exam 1 | -- | -- | Exam 1 |
| 18 | 3/19 | W | Aggregation Methods | Pacuit | Pigozzi | -- |
| 19 | 3/20 | H | Aggregation Methods | Kornhauser and Sager | Kornhauser
and Sager Kornhauser and Sager |
-- |
| 20 | 3/24 | M | Arrow's Theorem | Geanakoplos | >Feldman and Serrano | -- |
| 21 | 3/26 | W | Arrow's Theorem | -- | -- | -- |
| 22 | 3/27 | H | Argumentation | Walton Besnard and Hunter Besnard and Hunter |
-- | -- |
| 23 | 3/31 | M | Argumentation | -- | -- | -- |
| 24 | 4/2 | W | Argumentation | -- | -- | -- |
| 25 | 4/3 | H | Argumentation | -- | -- | -- |
| -- | 4/6 | -- | -- | -- | -- | Project Report R2 (Revised proposal; design) |
| 26 | 4/7 | M | Organizational Modeling | Singh | -- | -- |
| 27 | 4/9 | W | Social Commitments | Chopra and Singh | -- | -- |
| -- | 4/12 | -- | -- | -- | -- | P2 (Crowdsourcing) |
| 28 | 4/14 | M | Interaction-Oriented Software Engineering | -- | -- | -- |
| 29 | 4/16 | W | Synthesis: Sociotechnical Systems | -- | -- | -- |
| -- | 4/20 | -- | Exam 2 | -- | -- | Exam 2 |
| -- | 4/30 | -- | Project | -- | -- | Project Report R3 (Final report) |