Technologies for democratic society
Weekly outline
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Lecture: Mondays at 15:15 - 17:00 in CM1 3
Exercise Session: Mondays at 17:15 - 18:00 in CM1 105, CM1 121
This course is highly interactive, and your active participation in lectures is essential.Course Staff
Professor: Bryan Ford
TAs: Shailesh Mishra, Louis-Henri Merino, Yi Jiang
AEs: Jérémy Hugentobler, Youssef Belghmi, Srushti Singh
The CS-234 staff can be reached by email, on Ed, and during exercise sessions.Assessments
Assignments make up 50% of the final grade, and the Final Exam accounts for the other 50%.
Assignments (Grade Weights & Deadlines)
HW #1 (5%): Usenet
- Due Sep 24 @ 11:59
HW #2 (15%): Peer Review
- Part 1 (6%): Write Up (released Sep 24, due Oct 1 @ 23:59)
- Part 2 (6%): Peer Review (released Oct 1, due Oct 8 @ 23:59)
- Part 3 (3%): Metareview (released Oct 8, due Oct 15 @ 23:59)
HW #3 (10%): Ethereum Smart Contract
HW #4 (20%): Collective Problem Solving
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This week: 1. Course introduction
Recording: https://drive.switch.ch/index.php/s/7q8WhQpUS5iV8Tb
Next week: 2. UseNet, Internet, and "Democratization"
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By J.C.R. Licklider and Robert W. Taylor, April 1968.
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Excerpt: Chapter 8 from "Democracy and its Critics", Robert Dahl, 1989
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By Michael and Ronda Hauben, April 1997.
Reading assignment: chapters 1-4 and 18.
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This week: 2. UseNet, Internet, and "Democratization"
Video: https://mediaspace.epfl.ch/media/CS-234+Week+2/0_oy5akiib
Next week: 3. Social influence and choice
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This week: 3. Social influence and choice
Next week: 4. Online trust networks and reputation systems
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Please submit:
- One URL pointing to a news item, magazine article, scholarly paper, or any other reading you found that seems insightful to you and relevant to any of the topics covered by this course.
- A brief 1-sentence summary of what you found insightful about this reading.
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Please upload a PDF to Moodle with your short answers (3-5 sentences) to questions 1-3, a screenshot of your Usenet message with its headers (Ctrl + H) and the screenshot requested in question 2. Your short answers should not exceed half an A4 page. Name the file <YOUR_SCIPER>.pdf and do not include your name on the document.
Submission deadline is Thursday, September 26, 2024 @ 23.59.
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