This course will cover a variety of topics related to the emerging area of Social Network and Computing. It will discuss theories, technologies and human issues of Web 2.0: how people network online, what communities they form, why they participate and contribute, and how to design infrastructures for successful online communities.

＊瞭解Web的基本運作原理與Web 2.0的概念與特色。
＊學習Web 2.0程式設計基礎。
＊瞭解社群媒體與線上社群服務的發展趨勢，以及背後的基本理論與概念。
＊探究網路社群與各類應用程式的特色。
＊學習開發網路社群應用程式。

Part I: Web Technologies
* HTML/XML/CSS
* JavaScript, DOM, jQuery, Ajax, CGI, Session/Cookies
* Server-side, PHP, Web services, Web API, BaaS
* Introduction to Cloud Application Platforms

Part II: Theories
* Analytic Theories: Metcalfe's law, Network effects, Scale-Free networks
* Economic Theories: Wisdom of Crowds, Games, Reciprocation and Norms
* Behavioral Theories: Social Psychology, Sociology, Organizational Science

Part III: Communities
* Coding: Open Source Movement, Publishing: Blogs and Wikis, Wikipedia
* Discussions and Socialization: Forums, Bulletin Boards, Chat, IM, Social Networking
* Sharing Content, Trading and Playing

Part IV: Harvesting Participation
* Building Communities and Putting them to Work
* Motivating Participation – incentive mechanisms, community awareness /visualization
* Search for Meaning and Recommendation: Personal Information Management, Tagging, Community Ontologies, Semantic web

(Tentative)
Week 1: From Web 1.0 to Web 2.0 and Social Media/Online Social Networks (OSN)
Week 2~4: Web Technologies
Week 5~6: Designing Successful Social Applications
Week 7~8: Presentations
Week 9~10: Sharing and Trading, Social Documents, Wikis
Week 11~12: Socialization: Forums, Chat and Games
Week 13~14: Social Networking: Study on Facebook
Week 15~16: Ontologies, Folksonomies, Recommendation Systems
Week 17~18: Final Project Presentations

Lecture, TA demo, Student presentation.

Lab demo
Assignment grading
Project grading
Students Q&A

Participation and preparedness     <5%
Assignments                25%
Presentation                25%
Project                 50%

*主要學習資源 W3School 網站: http://www.w3schools.com/
*James Surowiecki (2004), Wisdom of Crowds, Random House.
*Joshua Porter (2008), Designing for the Social Web, New Riders: Berkley, CA.
*Matthew A. Russell (2011), Mining the Social Web, O’Reilly.
*Amy Jo Kim (2000), Community Building on the Web: Secret Strategies for Successful Online Communities, Peachpit Press.