2013/2014
KAN-SIPS Social Informatics: Principles of the Social
Web
| English Title |
| Social Informatics: Principles of the
Social Web |
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| Language |
English |
| Exam ECTS |
7.5 ECTS |
| Type |
Mandatory |
| Level |
Full Degree Master |
| Duration |
One Quarter |
| Course period |
Autumn, First Quarter |
| Time Table |
Please see course schedule at e-Campus |
| Study board |
Study Board for BSc/MSc in Business Administration and
Information Systems, BSc
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| Course
coordinator |
- Mads Bødker - Department of IT Mangement
(ITM)
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| Main academic
disciplines |
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Last updated on
07-08-2013
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| Learning objectives |
After the course, students should be
capable of:
- Explain and reflect on the value that social informatics and
the social web bring to organizations, employees, and
consumers.
- Reflect on the need for changing and further developing
organizational communication and participation through the use of
social technologies
- Suggest concrete ways to facilitate the use of social media
within and across organizations
- Assess and analyze examples of social informatics and
communication processes, including aspects of user and group
behavior in social media
- 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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| Examination form |
Oral exam based on written product
In order to participate in the oral exam, the written product
must be handed in before the oral exam; by the set deadline. The
grade is based on an overall assessment of the written product and
the individual oral performance. |
| Individual or group exam |
Group exam, max. 3 students in the
group |
| Size of written product |
Max. 15 pages |
| Assignment type |
Project |
| Duration |
Written product to be submitted on specified date and
time.
20 min. per student, including examiners' discussion of grade,
and informing plus explaining the grade |
| Grading scale |
7-step scale |
| Examiner(s) |
Internal examiner and second internal
examiner |
| Exam period |
October |
| Make-up exam/re-exam |
Same examination form as the ordinary exam
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Description of the exam
procedure
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 (depending 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 and
structure |
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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 |
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, 15-20 minute 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. Teachers in
the course
will make presentations to outline the context and content of the
readings and to facilitate the dialogue in the
groups. |
Last updated on
07-08-2013
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