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CS-234
Week 5: Election methods
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Collective Problem Solving: Presentations
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Assigned reading: "The Computer as a Communication Device"
Assigned reading: "A Theory of the Democratic Process"
Assigned reading: "Netizens: On the History and Impact of Usenet and the Internet"
Optional reading: "Democracy - Council of Europe"
Optional reading: "A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace"
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Assigned reading: "The PageRank Citation Ranking: Bringing Order to the Web"
Assigned reading: "Measuring User Influence in Twitter: The Million Follower Fallacy"
Assigned reading: "Piketty’s Inequality Story in Six Charts"
Optional reading: "PageRank Beyond the Web"
Optional reading: "Measurement and Analysis of Online Social Networks"
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Assigned reading: "Worst Practices in Search Engine Optimization"
Assigned reading: "The search engine manipulation effect (SEME) and its possible impact on the outcomes of elections"
Assigned reading: "Authorship and citation manipulation in academic research"
Optional reading: "Google Bombing from a Time Perspective"
Optional reading: "Promotional Reviews: An Empirical Investigation of Online Review Manipulation"
Optional reading: "The manager's dilemma: a conceptualization of online review manipulation strategies"
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Assigned reading: "An Introduction to Vote-Counting Schemes"
Assigned reading: "The Single Transferable Vote"
Optional reading: "Approval Voting"
Optional reading: "When Are Elections with Few Candidates Hard to Manipulate?"
Optional reading: "Voting Procedures"
Lecture from 2022-2023
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Assigned reading: "Experiments in Algorithmic Governance: A history and ethnography of “The DAO,” a failed Decentralized Autonomous Organization"
Optional reading: "Contracting in the smart era: the implications of blockchain and decentralized autonomous organizations for contracting and corporate governance"
Optional reading: "Governance of Decentralized Autonomous Organizations"
Optional reading: "Now the Code Runs Itself: On-Chain and Off-Chain Governance of Blockchain Technologies"
Optional reading: "The Seconomics (Security-Economics) Vulnerabilities of Decentralized Autonomous Organizations"
Optional reading: "The Ring of Gyges: Using Smart Contracts for Crime"
Lecture from 2020-2021
Instructor's notes - before lecture
Instructor's notes - during lecture
Assigned reading: "Google Votes: A Liquid Democracy Experiment on a Corporate Social Network"
Assigned reading: "Voting Behaviour and Power in Online Democracy: A Study of LiquidFeedback in Germany’s Pirate Party"
Assigned reading: "Viscous Democracy for Social Networks"
Optional reading: "Direct voting and proxy voting"
Optional reading: "Statement Voting"
Optional reading: "The Principles of LiquidFeedback"
Optional reading: "Liquid Democracy: An Algorithmic Perspective"
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Assigned reading: "The Promise of Prediction Markets"
Assigned reading: "Quadratic Voting: How Mechanism Design Can Radicalize Democracy"
Optional reading: "Automated Market Makers"
Optional reading: "Three provocations for civic crowdfunding"
Optional reading: "Prediction Markets"
Optional reading: "Voting Squared: Quadratic Voting in Democratic Politics"
Optional reading: "Uniswap and the rise of the decentralized exchange"
Optional reading: "Why do businesses go crypto? An empirical analysis of initial coin offerings"
Optional reading: "Blockchain and the Economics of Crypto-tokens and Initial Coin Offerings"
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Assigned reading: "Experimenting with a Democratic Ideal: Deliberative Polling and Public Opinion"
Assigned reading: "Crowdsourced Deliberation: The Case of the Law on Off-Road Traffic in Finland"
Optional reading: "Referendums Are Never Merely Referendums: On the Need to Make Popular Vote Processes More Deliberative"
Optional reading: "How the Republic of Venice chose its Doge: lot‐based elections and supermajority rule"
Optional reading: "Considered Opinions: Deliberative Polling in Britain"
Optional reading: "Deliberation, cognitive diversity, and democratic inclusiveness: an epistemic argument for the random selection of representatives"
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Assigned reading: "The Sybil Attack"
Assigned reading: "The Rise of Social Bots"
Optional reading: "Online Human-Bot Interactions: Detection, Estimation, and Characterization"
Optional reading: "Social bots distort the 2016 U.S. Presidential election online discussion"
Optional reading: "Disinformation and social bot operations in the run up to the 2017 French presidential election"
Optional reading: "The Brexit Botnet and User-Generated Hyperpartisan News"
Optional reading: "An Analysis of Social Network-Based Sybil Defenses"
Optional reading: "SybilLimit: A Near-Optimal Social Network Defense against Sybil Attacks"
Optional reading: "DSybil: Optimal Sybil-Resistance for Recommendation Systems"
Optional reading: "Aiding the Detection of Fake Accounts in Large Scale Social Online Services"
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Assigned reading: "4chan and /b/: An Analysis of Anonymity and Ephemerality in a Large Online Community"
Optional reading: "The Trauma Floor: The secret lives of Facebook moderators in America"
Optional reading: "Anonymity, Privacy, and Security Online"
Optional reading: "Anonymous Communication: Unmasking Findings Across Fields"
Optional reading: "Through a Glass Darkly: Information Technology Design, Identity Verification, and Knowledge Contribution in Online Communities"
Optional reading: "The impacts of identity verification and disclosure of social cues on flaming in online user comments"
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Assigned reading: "A survey on essential components of a self-sovereign identity"
Assigned reading: "Who Watches the Watchmen? A Review of Subjective Approaches for Sybil-resistance in Proof of Personhood Protocols"
Optional reading: "Tor: The Second-Generation Onion Router"
Optional reading: "Aadhaar Failures: A Tragedy of Errors"
Optional reading: "Biometric Recognition: Security and Privacy Concerns"
Optional reading: "Identity and Personhood in Digital Democracy: Evaluating Inclusion, Equality, Security, and Privacy in Pseudonym Parties and Other Proofs of Personhood"
Optional reading: "AnonRep: Towards Tracking-Resistant Anonymous Reputation"
Optional reading: "An Empirical Analysis of Anonymity in Zcash"
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Assigned reading: "Information gerrymandering and undemocratic decisions"
Assigned reading: "Auditing Radicalization Pathways on YouTube"
Optional reading: "The Law of Group Polarization"
Optional reading: "Exposure to ideologically diverse news and opinion on Facebook"
Optional reading: "Polarization in 2016"
Optional reading: "Should we worry about filter bubbles?"
Optional reading: "Political Polarization on Twitter"
Optional reading: "Quantifying Search Bias: Investigating Sources of Bias for Political Searches in Social Media"
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Assigned reading: "Fifteen Years of Internet Voting in Switzerland: History, Governance and Use"
Assigned reading: "On-Chain Vote Buying and the Rise of Dark DAOs"
Optional reading: "Internet Voting in Estonia: From Constitutional Debate to Evaluation of Experience over Six Elections"
Optional reading: "Three Case Studies from Switzerland: E-Voting"
Optional reading: "The Swiss Postal Voting Process and its System and Security Analysis"
Optional reading: "E-voting: outcomes from dialogue with experts guide future developments"
Optional reading: "On EOS Blockchain, Vote Buying Is Business as Usual"
Final Exam
HW #0 (Mini-assignment): What have you read outside this course but find relevant to it?
HW #1: "A leap into the past: Using Usenet"
HW #2 - Part 1: Write-up
HW #2 - Part 2: Peer Review
HW #2 - Part 3: Rebuttal
HW #3 Part 1: Collective Problem Solving
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HW #3 Part 2 & 3: Collective Problem Solving
HW #3: Collective Problem Solving Final Grade
HW #4: DAO and Quadratic voting
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Quiz #2
Quiz #3
Quiz #4
Assigned reading: "Experiments in Algorithmic Governance: A history and ethnography of “The DAO,” a failed Decentralized Autonomous Organization" ►
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