Readings

Overviews

• Doug Schuler. Introduction to Special Issue on Social Computing. Communications of the ACM, Volume 37 Issue 1 (Jan 1994)
• Fei-Yue Wang, Kathleen M. Carley, Daniel Zeng, Wenji Mao. Social Computing: From Social Informatics to Social Intelligence. IEEE Intelligent Systems, Volume 22 Issue 2 (March/April 2007)
• Irwin King, Jiexing Li, and Kam Tong Chan. A Brief Survey of Computational Approaches in Social Computing. Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Neural Networks, 2009, 1625-1632.
• Elizabeth Churchill. The (Anti)Social Net. Interactions. (September + October 2010)
• Rob Kling. Computerization and Social Transformations. Science, Technology, & Human Values. Vol. 16 No. 3 (Summer 1991)

Online Discussion and Q&A Systems

• Cliff Lampe and Paul Resnick. Slash(dot) and Burn: Distributed Moderation in a Large Online Conversation Space. Proceedings of the 2004 SIGCHI conference on Human factors in computing systems (CHI'04). 543-550
• Diane Maloney-Kirchmar and Jenny Preece. A Multilevel Analysis of Sociability, Usability, and Community Dynamics in an Online Health Community. ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction, Vol. 12, No. 2, 201–232.
• Jun Zhang, Mark S. Ackerman and Lada Adamic. Expertise Networks in Online Communities: Structure and Algorithms. Proceedings of the 16th World Wide Web Conference (WWW'07).
• Lada A. Adamic, Jun Zhang, Eytan Bakshy and Mark S. Ackerman. Knowledge Sharing and Yahoo Answers: Everyone Knows Something Proceedings of the 17th World Wide Web Conference (WWW'08).

Social Bookmarking

• Shilad Sen, Shyong K. (Tony) Lam, Al Mamunur Rashid, Dan Cosley, Dan Frankowski, Jeremy Osterhouse, F. Maxwell Harper, and John Riedl. tagging, communities, vocabulary, evolution. Proceedings of the 2006 ACM conference on Computer supported cooperative work (CSCW'06). 239-248
• David R Millen, Jonathan Feinberg and Bernard Kerr. Dogear: Social Bookmarking in the Enterprise. Proceedings of the 2006 SIGCHI conference on Human factors in computing systems (CHI'06). 111-120
• Umer Farooq, Thomas G. Kannampallil, Yang Song, Craig H. Ganoe, John M. Carroll, and C. Lee Giles. Evaluating Tagging Behavior in Social Bookmarking Systems: Metrics and design heuristics. Proceedings of the 2007 international ACM SIGGROUP conference on Supporting group work (GROUP'07). 351-360
• Emilee Rader and Rick Wash. Influences on Tag Choices in del.icio.us. Proceedings of the 2008 ACM conference on Computer supported cooperative work (CSCW'08). 239-248
• Shaoke Zhang, Umer Farooq and John M. Carroll. Enhancing Information Scent: Identifying and Recommending Quality Tags. Proceedings of the 2009 international ACM SIGGROUP conference on Supporting group work (GROUP'09). 1-10

Micro-blogging

• Dejin Zhao and Mary Beth Rosson How and why people Twitter: the role that micro-blogging plays in informal communication at work. Proceedings of the ACM 2009 international conference on Supporting group work (GROUP'09). 243-252
• Sarah Vieweg, Amanda L. Hughes, Kate Starbird and Leysia Palen Microblogging during two natural hazards events: what twitter may contribute to situational awareness. Proceedings of the 28th international conference on Human factors in computing systems (CHI'10). 1079-1088.
• Kate Starbird, Leysia Palen, Amanda L. Hughes and Sarah Vieweg Chatter on the red: what hazards threat reveals about the social life of microblogged information. Proceedings of the 2010 ACM conference on Computer supported cooperative work (CSCW'10). 241-250.
• Kate Ehrlich and N. Sadat Shami Microblogging Inside and Outside the Workplace. Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM-2010). 42-49.

Wikipedia

• Susan L. Bryant, Andrea Forte and Amy Bruckman Becoming Wikipedian: Transformation of Participation in a Collaborative Online Encyclopedia. Proceedings of the 2005 international ACM SIGGROUP conference on Supporting group work (GROUP'05). 1-10.
• Aniket Kittur and Robert E. Kraut. Harnessing the Wisdom of Crowds in Wikipedia: Quality Through Coordination. Proceedings of the 2008 ACM conference on Computer supported cooperative work (CSCW'08). 37-46
• Travis Kriplean, Ivan Beschastnikh and David W. McDonald. Articulations of WikiWork: Uncovering Valued Work in Wikipedia through Barnstars. Proceedings of the 2008 ACM conference on Computer supported cooperative work (CSCW'08). 47-56.
• Bongwon Suh, Ed H. Chi, Aniket Kittur and Bryan A. Pendleton. Lifting the veil: improving accountability and social transparency in Wikipedia with wikidashboard Proceeding of the twenty-sixth annual SIGCHI conference on Human factors in computing systems (CHI'08). 1037-1040.
• Aniket Kittur, Ed H. Chi and Bongwon Suh. What's in Wikipedia? Mapping Topics and Conflict Using Socially Annotated Category Structure Proceeding of the twenty-seventh annual SIGCHI conference on Human factors in computing systems (CHI'09). 1509-1512.
• Shyong (Tony) K. Lam, Jawed Karim and John Riedl. The Effects of Group Composition on Decision Quality in a Social Production Community. Proceedings of the 2010 international ACM SIGGROUP conference on Supporting group work (GROUP'10). 55-64.

Crowdsourcing

• Aniket Kittur, Ed H. Chi and Bongwon Suh. Crowdsourcing User Studies With Mechanical Turk. Proceedings of the 26th international conference on Human factors in computing systems (CHI'08)
• M. Six Silberman, Lilly Irani and Joel Ross. Ethics and Tactics of Professional Crowdwork. ACM Crossroads XRDS, Winter 2010, Vol. 17, No. 2
• Michael S. Bernstein, Desney Tan, Greg Smith, Mary Czerwinski and Eric Horvitz. Personalization via Friendsourcing. ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction, Vol. 17, No. 2
• Jeffrey Heer and Michael Bostock. Crowdsourcing Graphical Perception: Using Mechanical Turk to Assess Visualization Design. Proceedings of the 28th international conference on Human factors in computing systems (CHI'10)
• Greg Little, Lydia B. Chilton, Max Goldman and Robert C. Miller. TurKit: Human Computation Algorithms on Mechanical Turk. Proceedings of the 23nd annual ACM symposium on User interface software and technology (UIST'10).

Online Social Networking

• Bonnie A. Nardi, Steve Whittaker and Heinrich Schwarz. NetWORKers and their Activity in Intensional Networks Computer Supported Cooperative Work 11: 205–242, 2002.
• Adeline Lee and Amy Bruckman. Judging You by the Company You Keep: Dating on Social Networking Sites Proceedings of the 2007 international ACM SIGGROUP conference on Supporting group work (GROUP'07)
• Cliff Lampe, Nicole Ellison and Charles Steinfield. A Familiar Face(book): Profile Elements as Signals in an Online Social Network Proceeding of the twenty-fifth annual SIGCHI conference on Human factors in computing systems (CHI'07).
• Eric Gilbert and Karrie Karahalios. Predicting Tie Strength With Social Media Proceeding of the twenty-seventh annual SIGCHI conference on Human factors in computing systems (CHI'09).