MG486 Half Unit
Social Computing, Data and Information Services (formerly IS418)
This information is for the 2015/16 session.
Teacher responsible
Prof Jannis Kallinikos NAB3.24 and Miss Cristina Alaimo
Availability
This course is available on the MSc in Global Media and Communications (ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ and Fudan), MSc in Global Media and Communications (ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ and USC), MSc in Management of Information Systems and Digital Innovation, MSc in Media and Communications, MSc in Media and Communications (Data and Society), MSc in Media and Communications (Media and Communications Governance) and MSc in Media and Communications (Research). This course is available with permission as an outside option to students on other programmes where regulations permit.
Course content
The course is about the direction the development of the Web is currently taking via the growing use of social technologies. The course examines in detail the anatomy of social networking sites or social medial platforms and the forms by which they organize online participation. Social networking sites or media platforms are commonly seen as sites in which social relationships are built and developed. But they are also complex information infrastructures in which social communication and interaction are captured and recorded in forms tha