Ph.D. CS Social Computing Body of Knowledge
Note: this is the list for students in the computer science PhD program. HCC PhD students please study the HCC qualifier reading list.
| Sociological Foundations |
| Burt, R. (2004). Structural Holes and Good Ideas. American Journal of Sociology, 110(2). |
| Granovetter, M. (1973). The Strength of Weak Ties. American Journal of Sociology. 78(6):1360-1380. |
| Hampton, K. N. (2016). Persistent and pervasive community: New communication technologies and the future of community. American Behavioral Scientist, 60(1), 101-124. |
| 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. |
| Ostrom, E. (2015). Governing the Commons. Cambridge University Press. [Only pages 1-7; 29-57; 82-102] |
| Travers, J., and Milgram, S. (1977). An experimental study of the small world problem. In Social networks (pp. 179-197). Academic Press. |
| Social Computing Theories |
| Benkler, Y. (2002). Coase's Penguin, or Linux and the Nature of the Firm. Yale Law Journal 112:369 |
| Bruckman, Amy (2022). "Should You Believe Wikipedia?" (just the title chapter) |
| 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. |
| Grudin, Jonathan. (1988). Why CSCW applications fail: problems in the design and evaluation of organizational interfaces. In Proc. CSCW, 1988 |
| Hancock, J. T., Naaman, M., and Levy, K. (2020). AI-mediated communication: Definition, research agenda, and ethical considerations. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, 25(1), 89-100. |
| Hofman, J. M., Sharma, A., and Watts, D. J. (2017). Prediction and explanation in social systems. Science, 355(6324), 486-488. |
| Lazer, D. M., Pentland, A., Watts, D. J., Aral, S., Athey, S., Contractor, N., ... and Wagner, C. (2020). Computational social science: Obstacles and opportunities. Science, 369(6507), 1060-1062. |
| Olson, G. M., & Olson, J. S. (2000). Distance matters. Human-computer interaction, 15(2), 139-178. |
| Raymond, E. S. (2001). The Cathedral and the Bazaar: Musings on Linux and Open Source by an Accidental Revolutionary (Revised ed.). Sebastopol, CA: O’Reilly & Associates. |
| Scott, C. F., Marcu, G., Anderson, R. E., Newman, M. W., and Schoenebeck, S. (2023). Trauma-informed social media: Towards solutions for reducing and healing online harm. In Proceedings of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (pp. 1-20). |
| Waldman, A. E. (2020). Cognitive biases, dark patterns, and the ‘privacy paradox’. Current opinion in psychology, 31, 105-109. |
| Design of Social Computing Systems |
| Burton, et al. (2012). Crowdsourcing subjective fashion advice using VizWiz: challenges and opportunities. Proc. ASSETS. |
| Dimond, J. P., Dye, M., LaRose, D., and Bruckman, A. S. (2013). Hollaback!: the role of storytelling online in a social movement organization. In Proceedings of the 2013 conference on Computer supported cooperative work (pp. 477-490). ACM. |
| Irani, L. C., and Silberman, M. S. (2013). Turkopticon: Interrupting worker invisibility in amazon mechanical turk. In Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on human factors in computing systems (pp. 611-620). |
| Language |
| Cheng, J., Bernstein, M., Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil, C., and Leskovec, J. (2017). Anyone can become a troll: Causes of trolling behavior in online discussions. In Proceedings of the 2017 ACM conference on computer-supported cooperative work and social computing (pp. 1217-1230). |
| De Choudhury, M., Kiciman, E., Dredze, M., Coppersmith, G., & Kumar, M. (2016). Discovering shifts to suicidal ideation from mental health content in social media. In Proceedings of the 2016 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (pp. 2098-2110). ACM |
| Saha, K., Gupta, P., Mark, G., Kiciman, E., and De Choudhury, M. (2024). Observer effect in social media use. In Proceedings of the 2024 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (pp. 1-20). |
| Studies of Social Computing Systems |
| Bryant, S, Forte, A, and Bruckman, A (2005). Becoming Wikipedian: Transformation of Participation in a Collaborative Online Encyclopedia. In Proc. GROUP. |
| Chandrasekharan, E., Pavalanathan, U., Srinivasan, A., Glynn, A., Eisenstein, J., and Gilbert, E. (2017). You can't stay here: The efficacy of reddit's 2015 ban examined through hate speech. Proceedings of the ACM on human-computer interaction, 1(CSCW), 1-22. |
| Guess, A. M., Malhotra, N., Pan, J., Barberá, P., Allcott, H., Brown, T., ... and Tucker, J. A. (2023). How do social media feed algorithms affect attitudes and behavior in an election campaign?. Science, 381(6656), 398-404. |
| Hancock, J. T., Toma, C., and Ellison, N. (2007). The truth about lying in online dating profiles. In Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on Human factors in computing systems (pp. 449-452). |
| Hosseinmardi, H., Ghasemian, A., Rivera-Lanas, M., Horta Ribeiro, M., West, R., and Watts, D. J. (2024). Causally estimating the effect of YouTube’s recommender system using counterfactual bots. Proceedings of the national academy of sciences, 121(8), e2313377121. |
| Hussein, E., Juneja, P., and Mitra, T. (2020). Measuring misinformation in video search platforms: An audit study on YouTube. Proceedings of the ACM on human-computer interaction, 4(CSCW1), 1-27. |
| Pennycook, G., Epstein, Z., Mosleh, M., Arechar, A. A., Eckles, D., and Rand, D. G. (2021). Shifting attention to accuracy can reduce misinformation online. Nature, 592(7855), 590-595. |