2012/2013
KAN-SIPS Social Informatics: Principles of the Social Web
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English Title
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Social Informatics: Principles of the Social Web
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Language
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English
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Exam ECTS
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7.5
ECTS
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Type
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Mandatory
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Level
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Full Degree Master
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Duration
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One Quarter
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Course period
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Autumn, First Quarter
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Time Table
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Please see course schedule at e-Campus
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Study board
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Study Board for BSc/MSc in Business Administration and Information Systems, BSc
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Course coordinator
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Main Category of the Course
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Last updated on 05-10-2012
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Learning objectives
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After the course, students should be capable of:
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Explain and reflect on the value that social informatics and the social web bring to organizations, employees, and consumers.
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Reflect on the need for changing and further developing organizational communication and participation through the use of social technologies
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Suggest concrete ways to facilitate the use of social media within and across organizations
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Assess and analyze examples of social informatics and communication processes, including aspects of user and group behavior in social media
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Synthesize and integrate social informatics concepts presented in the course
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Examination
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Social Informatics: Principles of the Social Web:
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Type of test
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Oral with Written Assignment
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Marking scale
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7-step scale
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Second examiner
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Second internal examiner
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Exam period
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October
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Aids
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Without preparation
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Duration
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20 Minutes
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Individual oral exam based on a mini-project (overall assessment of project and oral performance).
The mini-project will be based on the student groups' own choice of a digital social technology (e.g. Facebook, Sina Weibo, FourSquare, LindedIn, Twitter, Tripadvisor, Instagram, Wikipedia, Podio etc.). The groups must then apply (appending on relevance) at least 3 of the principles discussed in class on their case and argue for their usefulness for the analysis and understanding of the particular social medium. The analysis must be based on on-line observations of user behavior and interactions using the chosen technology.
To gain a solid basis for the mini-project, each student group is expected to engage actively in the technology in question, and document this with example screendumps etc. All projects should take point of departure in the uploaded presentation(s) that the group made during the course.
The examination takes place in October. Make-up and re-examinations take place in January. The exam is equal to the regular exam.
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Course content
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Taking a profoundly interdisciplinary approach, this obligatory course for the IM specialization will take up classic and recent theories that critically examine social aspects of networked communication. The subjects of analysis will be centered upon intranets, mobile communication, and recent developments in social software practices such as (micro) blogging, wiki's, and peer-to-peer sharing.
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Teaching methods
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The course will be run in a study-circle style. Key concepts/theories/approaches will be presented, argued against, and discussed in plenary sessions. This is done in class with the focus on active student participation.Each time, presentations will be made by the student reading groups, while other groups are tasked with challenging and critiquing the views and understandings espoused by the literature.
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Last updated on 05-10-2012
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