CS898 - Winter 2017 - 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 of the initial topic of value centric design and from questions being asked following presentations done by others in the class). 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 - 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) Tracking the perpetrators of cyberbullying http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/amanda-todd-coban-extradition-1.3655619 4) Stalking, criminal harrassment and cyberbullying www.cbabc.org/for-the-public/dial-a-law/scripts/criminal-law/206 5) Prevention, not tougher punishment key to ending cyberbullying http://www.unicef.ca/en/blog/prevention-not-tougher-punishment-key-to-ending-cyber-bullying 6) 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/ 7) Amanda Todd: 'cyberbullying' doesn't begin to describe it http://www2.macleans.ca/2012/10/16/amanda-todd-cyberbullying-doesnt-begin-to-describe-it/ 8) 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/ 9) Bill C-273 (skim) https://openparliament.ca/bills/41-1/C-273/ 10) Using technology to predict cyberbullies http://www.cbc.ca/news/trending/algorithm-monitors-social-media-mental-health-issues-risk-1.3471223 11) Psychosocial risk factors associated with cyberbullying among adolescents archpsyc.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleID=210833 Topic 2 - Improving Social Media Environments 1) Information Overload in Social Media Streams and the Approaches to Solve it citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.309.8945 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 Networks 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/ 7) Addiction to social media 7A) Mining Online Social Data for Detecting Social Network Mental Disorders dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2882996 7B) How Real a Risk is Social Media Addiction? www.cbsnews.com/news/how-real-a-risk-is-social-media-addiction/ 7C) Internet Gratification and Abuses of New Media www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15331025 8) Quantifying evidence of overload in social media (skim: skip tech details) https://www.mpi-sws.org/~gummadi/papers/icwsm2014-overload.pdf 9) Online deception in social media http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2629612 Topic 3 - Gender Imbalance in Computer Science 1) Gender Differences in STEM Programs at University http://www.statcan.gc.ca/access_acces/alternative_alternatif.action?l=eng&loc=/p ub/75-006-x/2013001/article/11874-eng.pdf and http://www.statcan.gc.ca/pub/75-006-x/2013001/article/11874-eng.htm 2) Decoding Harvard's Computer Science Gender Gap http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2016/2/22/computer-science-department-gender-gap/ 3) How Can We Encourage More Women to Study Computer Science? http://www.newsweek.com/how-can-we-encourage-more-women-study-computer-science-3 41652 or http://cra.org/cra-w/629/ 4) STEM Discplines and the Gender Gap: Where are the Women? http://www.forbes.com/sites/work-in-progress/2012/06/20/stem-fields-and-the-gend er-gap-where-are-the-women/#79bb523733a9 5) How One College is Closing the Computer Science Gender Gap http://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/2013/05/01/178810710/How-One-Colle ge-Is-Closing-The-Tech-Gender-Gap 6) The Complex Role of Gender in Faculty Hiring (and Arxiv paper) http://www.sciencemag.org/careers/2016/04/complex-role-gender-faculty-hiring 7) Progress on Women in Computing dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1461947 8) Encouraging women in computer science at Stanford http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=543837 You may also wish to skim the following paper 9) Why there is a Gender Imbalance in Computer Science https://www.researchgate.net/publication/266742451_Why_are_women_underrepresented_in_Computer_Science_Gender_differences_in_stereotypes_self-efficacy_values_and_interests_and_predictors_of_future_CS_course-taking_and_grades 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 www.cse.iitd.ernet.in/~aseth/ruralmediacewit.pdf 6) Computer and internet use among people with disabilities 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 10) Visually impaired users in social networks dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2557415 For the topic of value-centric design on Jan 16, please view the video here: http://uwtv.org/watch/lnlRveMxEtQ/ 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