CS898 - Winter 2014 - Readings for the Topic Areas


For each of the topic areas, there will be readings. Students are
expected to have read these papers and be ready to discuss in class,
for the due dates indicated in the timetable. Class participation
marks will be determined in part on the basis of the discussions
taking place on these dates (as well as on the basis of discussion that occurs
after guest speakers' lectures and after the group presentations of projects).

The readings will also assist groups in motivating the work being
done for each of the required group projects. These readings
are primarily focused on informing students about "the problem";
working in groups, students will then move forward to try to develop
technological "solutions".

Topic 1 and Topic 2: Introductory Discussion on January 13
Topic 3 and Topic 4: Introductory Discussion on February 24


Topic 1 - Cyberbullying

1) MPs to debate NDP anti-bullying motion
http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/mps-to-debate-ndp-anti-bullying-motion-1.1127561

2) N.S. cyberbullying investigative unit a 1st in Canada
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/n-s-cyberbullying-investigative-unit-a-1st-in-canada-1.1359308

3) Stalking, criminal harrassment and cyberbullying
http://www.cba.org/dev/BC/public_media/criminal/206.aspx

4) Prevention, not tougher punishment key to ending cyberbullying
http://www.unicef.ca/en/blog/prevention-not-tougher-punishment-key-to-ending-cyber-bullying

5) Amanda Todd and the greatly exaggerated cyber-bullying plague:
web harassment not on the rise, researcher says
http://news.nationalpost.com/2012/10/26/amanda-todd-and-the-greatly-exaggerated-cyber-bullying-plague-web-harassment-isnt-rising-researcher-says/

6) Amanda Todd: 'cyberbullying' doesn't begin to describe it
http://www2.macleans.ca/2012/10/16/amanda-todd-cyberbullying-doesnt-begin-to-describe-it/

7) Cyber bullying on social media is at 'a breaking point',
says NDP MP championing private member's bill
http://news.nationalpost.com/2012/10/15/cyber-bullying-on-social-media-is-at-a-breaking-point-says-ndp-mp-championing-private-members-bill/

8) Bill C-273: an act to amend the criminal code (cyberbullying)
https://www.onlineparty.ca/issue.php?ISSUEID=646

9) Psychosocial risk factors associated with cyberbullying among adolescents
http://archpsyc.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleID=210833

Topic 2 - Social Media Overload


1) Information Overload in Social Media Streams and the Approaches to Solve it
http://www.google.ca/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&ved=0CC4QFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww2012.wwwconference.org%2Fproceedings%2Fnocompanion%2Fwwwwebsci2012_grineva.pdf&ei=FzWnUv2NEo6-qQHq0oC4Dg&usg=AFQjCNFwthmbZJ-boPfxUhqPnjrLhBDDug&bvm=bv.57799294,d.aW

2) Are you on Social Overload?
http://www.forbes.com/sites/peterhimler/2013/01/30/are-you-on-social-overload/

3) Towards the use of Online Social Network for Efficient Internet
Content Distribution
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/abstractAuthors.jsp?arnumber=6163677

4) A Normative View of Networking Applications
http://web.njit.edu/~turoff/Papers/dcgov.html

5) Bing: An illiterate cure for search overload
http://flowtv.org/2010/04/bing-an-illiterate-cure-for-search-overloaddaren-c-brabham-and-%E2%80%A8annie-brabham-university-of-utah/

6) Teaching and participatory media
http://doras.dcu.ie/14988/

Below are some papers that begin to sketch solutions (so are more detailed).
You can browse these prior to our open class discussion on Topic 2.
You will not be expected to discuss the solutions in detail.

7) Game-Theoretic Models of Information Overload in Social Networks
http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-3-642-18009-5_14

8) Bayesian Credibility Modeling for Personalized Recommendation in
Participatory Media
http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-3-642-13470-8_26

9) Searching Social Networks (Yu and Singh)
http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary;jsessionid=3DDC881F7F43AC2E5F65819B39D0CA34?doi=10.1.1.15.8596

10) Credibility-based trust in social networks
web.mit.edu/~jchampai/www/

Topic 3 - Copyright and the Web

1) Copyright protection policies to be developed by Google
http://www.sci-tech-today.com/story.xhtml?story_id=01100187XO0V

2) Copyright and the Web (CBC)
http://www.cbc.ca/news2/background/internet/copyright.html

3) Viacom sues Google over Youtube clips
http://news.cnet.com/2100-1030_3-6166668.html

4) Copyright changes: how they'll affect users of digital content
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/copyright-changes-how-they-ll-affect-users-of-digital-content-1.991691

5) Copyright protection in the Internet (White Paper)
http://www.ipoque.com/en/sidecontent/copyright-protection-in-the-internet

6) WIPO Copyright Treaty (WCT) (Geneva 1996)
http://www.wipo.int/treaties/en/ip/wct/trtdocs_wo033.html

7) Internet policing and copyright protection must be in balance: EU
http://news.nationalpost.com/2012/01/22/internet-policing-and-copyright-protection-must-be-in-balance-eu/

8) IP Basics: Copyright on the Internet (Thomas G. Field, Jr.)
http://law.unh.edu/franklin-pierce-ip-center/studying-ip-at-unh-law/ip-basics/copyright-internet

9) NSERC Open Access direction
http://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/NSERC-CRSNG/policies-politiques/OpenAccess-LibreAcces_eng.asp

Topic 4 - The Digital Divide

1) Senior citizens' acceptance of information systems: a study in the
context of e-government services
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/login.jsp?tp=&arnumber=1715647&url=http%3A%2F%2Fieeexplore.ieee.org%2Fiel5%2F17%2F36110%2F01715647.pdf%3Farnumber%3D1715647

2) On the audio representation of distance for blind users
http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1518984

3) Motivation and design of a content distribution architecture
for rural areas
http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2160610

4) Using ICTs to meet the operational needs of community radio stations
in India
http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1926207

5) Social media tools for the bottom of the pyramid
http://www.cse.iitd.ernet.in/~aseth/ruralmediacewit.pdf

6) Computer and internet use among people with disabilities
http://www.akmhcweb.org/Docs/computerREPORT13.pdf

7) Improving the safety of homeless young people with mobile phones:
values, form and function
http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1978942.1979191

8) Designing ubquitous information systems for a community of homeless
young people: precaution and a way forward
http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs00779-010-0341-5#page-1

9) The impact of internet use on the other side of the digital divide
http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1005819

There are no background readings for the two guest lectures:
 January 20 (computerization of healthcare)
 February 3 (computers and the greeen agenda)

For the topic of value-centric design on March 10, please view the video here:
http://uwtv.org/series/faculty-lectures/watch/18963523693/

You may also find it informative to read the following papers:

1) Envisioning systemic effects on persons and society through
interactive system design
http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.182.7093

2) Theories and practice of design for information systems:
eight design perspectives in ten short weeks
http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.173.8561