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Welcome to Social Networking Systems

Welcome to Social Networking Systems. David Millard dem@ecs.soton.ac.uk Thanassis Tiropanis tt2@ecs.soton.ac.uk. This is NOT the Facebook course!. So What is It?. Our aim is that by the end of the course you should:

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Welcome to Social Networking Systems

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  1. Welcome to Social Networking Systems David Millard dem@ecs.soton.ac.uk ThanassisTiropanis tt2@ecs.soton.ac.uk

  2. This is NOT the Facebook course!

  3. So What is It? Our aim is that by the end of the course you should: Understand the technical affordances of social networking systems, the graph and structural theory that governs their behaviour, and their social and philosophical context. Three broad topics: • Technologies and Applications • Analysis and Structure • Social Factors

  4. Technology and Applications History and Value of Web 2.0 • How did we get here, and why does it matter? • The New Web Literacy • Digital Natives, Immigrants and Edupunks • Interoperability • Open ID, Open Social, and Linked Data • Social Enterprise • E-business and marketing

  5. Analysis and Structure • Graph Theory and Social Networks • Modeling, Small world phenomenon, Homophily, link formation, etc.) • Game Theory and Social Networks • Equilibria, social optimality, principles of evolutionary game theory • Network Dynamics in Social Networks • Information cascades, Network effects and diffusion

  6. Social Factors • Trust • Models and algorithms for provenance and reputation • Power • Power vs. influence vs. action • Privacy • Identity, anonymity, rights and the ergonomics of privacy

  7. Who are You? • COMP6051 (Web Technologists and Software Engineers) • COMP6052 (Web Scientists) Learning Assessment COMP6051 (20 credits) COMP6052 (10 credits) Ten week lecture series Exam (100%) Group Project Portfolio (60%) Personal Summary (20%) Dragon’s Den Pitch (20%)

  8. What happens next? • Monday 1400-1600 will be the regular lecture slot • We start our lecture series today • A Brief History of the Web (dem) • Value and Web 2.0 (tt2) • Tomorrow (Tues) 1000-1100 is the COMP6052 Project Launch • Explain the project process • Allocate groups (of six) • Assign Mentors • We will only occasionally use the Tuesday slot • COMP6051 students will not need to attend tomorrow, but may be asked to act as critical friends in a future Tuesday slot

  9. Questions… ? Dave Millard (dem@ecs.soton.ac.uk) ThanassisTiropanis (tt2@ecs.soton.ac.uk)

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