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CS-234
Week 2: Usenet, Internet, Democracy
Secondary reading: "Testing Theories of American Politics: Elites, Interest Groups, and Average Citizens"
Secondary reading: "Testing Theories of American Politics: Elites, Interest Groups, and Average Citizens"
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◄ Secondary reading: "Information gerrymandering and undemocratic decisions"
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Primary reading: "The Computer as a Communication Device"
Primary reading: "A Theory of the Democratic Process"
Primary reading: handout "UseNet and Democratization"
Secondary reading: "Netizens: On the History and Impact of Usenet and the Internet" (excerpts)
Secondary reading: "The Virtual Community" (excerpts)
Secondary reading: "Remembering Netizens"
Secondary reading: "Managing the Virtual Commons: Cooperation and Conflict in Computer Communities"
Secondary reading: "You Are Who You Talk To: Detecting Roles in Usenet Newsgroups"
Secondary reading: "Picturing Usenet: Mapping Computer-Mediated Collective Action"
Optional reading: "Democracy - Council of Europe"
Optional reading: "A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace"
Lecture recording
Assigned reading: "The PageRank Citation Ranking: Bringing Order to the Web"
Assigned reading: "Piketty’s Inequality Story in Six Charts"
Secondary reading: "Information gerrymandering and undemocratic decisions"
Secondary reading: "Measurement and Analysis of Online Social Networks"
Secondary reading: "Measuring User Influence in Twitter: The Million Follower Fallacy"
Secondary reading: "PageRank Beyond the Web"
Secondary reading: World Inequality Report 2026 - Executive Summary
HW #1: "A leap into the past: Using Usenet"
Secondary reading: "Measurement and Analysis of Online Social Networks" ►
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