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CS-234
Week 4: Influence
Secondary reading: "Promotional Reviews: An Empirical Investigation of Online Review Manipulation"
Secondary reading: "Promotional Reviews: An Empirical Investigation of Online Review Manipulation"
Completion requirements
Click
mayzlin14promotional.pdf
link to view the file.
◄ Secondary reading: "Google Bombing from a Time Perspective"
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Instructor's notes
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: "Testing Theories of American Politics: Elites, Interest Groups, and Average Citizens"
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
Post-lecture discussion form (Week 2)
Scribe notes (Week 2)
Primary reading: "Worst Practices in Search Engine Optimization"
Primary reading: "The search engine manipulation effect (SEME) and its possible impact on the outcomes of elections"
Secondary reading: "Authorship and citation manipulation in academic research"
Secondary reading: "Google Bombing from a Time Perspective"
Secondary reading: "The manager's dilemma: a conceptualization of online review manipulation strategies"
Post-lecture discussion form (Week 4)
Scribe notes (Week 4)
HW #1: "A leap into the past: Using Usenet"
HW #2 - Part 1: Write-up
Homework 4 Group Signup
Secondary reading: "The manager's dilemma: a conceptualization of online review manipulation strategies" ►
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