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Social Computing Reading List

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Mathematical foundations    
Adamic, L. (2000). Zipf, Power-laws, and Pareto - a ranking tutorial. HP Labs Technical Report.   http://www.hpl.hp.com/research/idl/papers/ranking/ranking.html
Barabasi, A. and Albert, R. (1999). Emergence of Scaling in Random Networks. Science, 286(5439):509-512 8803SC http://www.sciencemag.org/content/286/5439/509
Holland, P. and Leinhardt, S. 1970. A Method for Detecting Structure in Sociometric Data. American Journal of Sociology, 76(3):492-513   http://www.jstor.org/pss/2775735
Newman, M. E. J., Clauset, Aaron, Shalizi, Cosma Rohilla. (2009). Power-law distributions in empirical data, SIAM Review 51, 661-703.   http://arxiv.org/abs/0706.1062
Jackson, M. (2008). Social and Economic Networks. Chapters 1-4. Princeton University Press.    
     
Sociological foundations    
Coleman, J. (1988). Social Capital in the Creation of Human Capital. American Journal of Sociology, 94:S95-S120.   http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/2780243
Granovetter, M. (1973). The Strength of Weak Ties. American Journal of Sociology. 78(6):1360-1380 8803SC http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/2776392
Heider, F. (1946). Attitudes and Cognitive Organization. The Journal of Psychology. 21(1):107-112   http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00223980.1946.9917275
Lazer, et al. (2009). Computational Social Science. Science, 323(5915):721-723.   http://www.sciencemag.org/content/323/5915/721.summary
Oldenburg, R. (1999). The Great Good Place: Cafes, Coffee Shops, Bookstores, Bars, Hair Salons, and Other Hangouts at the Heart of a Community. Chapters 1 and 2. New York: Marlowe & Company. 6470  
Putnam, R. D. (1995). Bowling Alone: America's Declining Social Capital. Journal of Democracy, 6(1), 65-78. 6470  
Travers, J. and Milgram, S. An Experimental Study of the Small World Problem. Sociometry, 32(4): 425-443. 8803SC http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/2786545
     
Networks    
Adamic, Lada and Adar, Eytan. (2003). Friends and neighbors on the Web. Social Networks, 25(3):211-230   http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0378873303000091
Burt, R. (2004). Structural Holes and Good Ideas. American Journal of Sociology, 110(2).   http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/421787?journalCode=ajs
Gilbert, Eric and Karahalios, Karrie. 2009. Predicting tie strength with social media. In Proc. CHI. 8803SC http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1518736
Newman, M. E. J., Modularity and community structure in networks, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 103, 8577-8582 (2006).   http://www.pnas.org/content/103/23/8577.short
Kleinberg, Jon M. (1999). Authoritative sources in a hyperlinked enviornment. J. ACM 46, 5 (September 1999), 604-632. 8803SC http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=324140
"Leskovec, Jure, Faloutsos, Christos and Kleinberg Jon. (2005). Graphs over time: densification laws, shrinking diameters and possible explanations. In Proc. KDD"   http://cs.stanford.edu/people/jure/pubs/powergrowth-kdd05.pdf
     
Social computing theories    
Benkler, Y. (2002). Coase's Penguin,or Linux and the Nature of the Firm. Yale Law Journal 112:369 6470  
boyd, d. and Ellison, N. (2008). Social Network Sites: Definition, History, and Scholarship. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, 13(1):210-230.   http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1083-6101.2007.00393.x/full
Donath, J. (1999). Identity and Deception in the Virtual Community. In M. A. Smith & P. Kollock (Eds.), Communities in Cyberspace (pp. 29-59). New York: Routledge. 6470, 8803SC http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1099205
Grudin, Jonathan. (1988). Why CSCW applications fail: problems in the design and evaluation of organizational interfaces. In Proc. CSCW, 1988 8803SC http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=62266.62273
Kollock, P. (1999). The Economies of Online Cooperation: Gifts and Public Goods in Cyberspace. In M. Smith & P. Kollock (Eds.), Communities in Cyberspace (pp. 220-239). New York: Routledge.    
Wellman, B., & Gulia, M. (1999). Virtual Communities are Communities: Web Surfers Don't Ride Alone. In M. Smith & P. Kollock (Eds.), Communities in Cyberspace (pp. 167-194). New York: Routledge. 6470  
     
Design & systems    
Bernstein, et al. (2010). Soylent: a word processor with a crowd inside. In Proc. UIST.   http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1866078&dl=ACM&coll=DL&CFID=82490507&CFTOKEN=33871886
Erickson, T. and Kellogg, W. (2000). Social translucence: an approach to designing systems that support social processes. ACM ToCHI 7, 1, 59-83. 8803SC http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=345004/
Gilbert, Eric (2012). Designing Social Translucence Over Social Networks. In Proc. CHI. 8803SC http://comp.social.gatech.edu/papers/chi12.trans.gilbert.pdf
Leskovec, Jure, Backstrom, Lars, and Kleinberg, Jon. 2009. Meme-tracking and the dynamics of the news cycle. In Proc. KDD, 2009 8803SC http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1557077
von Ahn, et al. (2006). Peekaboom: A Game for Locating Objects in Images. In Proc. CHI.   http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1124782
     
Studies    
Bryant, S, Forte, A, and Bruckman, A (2005). Becoming Wikipedian: Transformation of Participation in a Collaborative Online Encyclopedia. In Proc. GROUP.    
Burke, M. et al. (2011). Social Capital on Facebook: Differentiating Uses and Users. In Proc. CHI. 8803SC http://www.thoughtcrumbs.com/publications/burke_chi2011_socialcapitalonfacebook.pdf
Ellison, Steinfield & Lampe. 2007. The Benefits of Facebook "Friends:" Social Capital and College Students' Use of Online Social Network Sites. JCMC, 12(4). 8803SC http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1083-6101.2007.00367.x/full
"Kearns, et al. (2006). An Experimental Study of the Coloring Problem on Human Subject Networks. Science, 313(5788)   http://www.sciencemag.org/content/313/5788/824.short
Ling, et al. (2004). Using Social Psychology to Motivate Contributions to Online Communities. JCMC. 8803SC http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1083-6101.2005.tb00273.x/full
Salganik, Watts, et al. (2008). Experimental Study of Inequality and Unpredictability in an Artificial Cultural Market. Science, 311(5762)   http://www.sciencemag.org/content/311/5762/854.short