week 4 – Monday (11 July 2011)

Networks (social & technological)

• Lecture/Discussion
• What’s up for Wednesday

Housekeeping

• Before you leave today: need email addresses used with WP blog (week 2 request) – TypeWith.me
• Reading posts: Amy, Anneka, Cecilia, Colleen, Danny, Deborah, Gary, Grace, Holly, Jake, Jessie, Sean, Tim, Xiaoxi

Lecture/Discussion

Multi-Media

• Framing: How social networks predict epidemics
• Post-Lecture: The Machine Is/Using Us
• Example : visualizing complex SEC data
• Example : visualize LinkedIn networks (blog post)
• UW iSchool LadyGaga video

PPT

Resources

• TheyRule.net
• Why your friends have more friends than you do (Psychology Today)
• Network Theory and Analysis

For Wednesday

• Presentation Zen (tips)
• Our first discussion leader session! (last 15 minutes of class devoted to any questions these three have – demo SlideShare again – PPT explanation)
• Network theory: tipping points and Dunbar numbers
• Other blog post types (links and references and such)