IS 424

Spring 2021 Part of Term 1

Part of Term 1
Jan 25-May 5

Social Computing

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Credit: 3 OR 4 hours.

This interdisciplinary course introduces students to fundamental theories, methods, technologies and applications of social computing. Students learn about this emerging discipline from two perspectives: First, basic principles of collective information production and processing, and methods for studying these principles. Topics include prediction markets, games with a purpose, open source software development, social media, social networks, information visualization, and online games. Second, socio-technical aspects of the design and usage of respective technologies. This includes participation, privacy and security. Students learn how to solve problems in social computing in a systematic and rigorous fashion. At the end of the course, students will be able to design, manage and execute social computing projects for scholarly and commercial use, and to critically assess work in this area.

3 undergraduate hours. 4 graduate hours.

This course satisfies the General Education Criteria in Fall 2022 for:

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IS 424 class schedule data for spring 2021
	CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
	71633	Online	AOG	9:00AM -11:50AM	M	n.a.	Huang, Y Lee, Y	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/25/21-05/05/21 Degree Notes: ONL Info Science rate course. Credit: 4 hours Section Info: Graduate student questions may be sent to ischool-advising@illinois.edu Restriction(s): Restricted to students in the Information Sciences or Illinois Informatics Institute department. Restricted to Graduate - Urbana-Champaign.
	72688	Online	AOU	9:00AM -11:50AM	M	n.a.	Huang, Y Lee, C	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/25/21-05/05/21 Degree Notes: ONL Info Science rate course. Credit: 3 hours Section Info: “Restricted to Information Sciences majors until 12/18/20 by noon. INFO Minors will be able to register starting 12/11/20 by noon. For more information about this major, please visit: http://go.ischool.illinois.edu/BSIS. We will not provide overrides, please wait until the course restrictions are removed. Questions may be sent to ischool-is@illinois.edu” Restriction(s): Not intended for students with Freshman or Sophomore class standing. Restricted to Undergrad - Urbana-Champaign.