CS 598 KGK

Subject offerings of new and developing areas of knowledge in computer science intended to augment the existing curriculum. See Class Schedule or departmental course information for topics and prerequisites. Course Information: May be repeated in the same or separate terms if topics vary.

Topic: Social (Media + Signals) As the Internet has become an infrastructure for social life and society itself, our ability to measure and represent that society is also transforming. Most signaling systems to date attempt to address the ?authenticity? of messages via a proxy. In this course, via design, machine learning, and game theory, we interrogate the signals (and their proxies) used in widespread networked computation to quantify, analyze, explain, and navigate our relationships to social institutions and each other. We do this by examining existing social signaling systems (e.g., Reddit reputation, Facebook ) and by creating new online social signaling systems. Upon completion of this course, students will have an up-to-date understanding of the design of social media interfaces with incentive structures from social signaling theory.

8/24/2015