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description:
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social information spaces is a studio/production course where we will examine how networked information spaces can be understood (or redesigned to become) inhabited, social spaces. the focus of the course will be on social software such as email, newsgroups, weblogs, social network-based search engines (e.g., google) and social networking sites like friendster, meetup.com, and flickr. the design and analysis of social software employs ideas from social computing, a new set of methods and techniques now emerging from anthropology, sociology, architecture, geography, conceptual art, computer-supported cooperative work (cscw) and human-computer interaction (hci). students will complete a series of exercises to analyze existing physical and information spaces. the course will culminate with a group project to redesign an existing social networking site. this term we will focus on the photo-sharing site flickr.
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