Social Design Reading List

[edit] Identity

• Superstar Avatars
  by Gillian Reagan, 8:30 PM December 2, 2008, The New York Observer
• The Hand That Controls the Sock Puppet Could Get Slapped
  By BRAD STONE and MATT RICHTEL July 16, 2007, The New York Times
• Identity and Identification in a Networked World
  by Tim Schneider and Michael Zimmer, Volume 11, Number 12 — 4 December 2006
• Virtually Trustworthyby Judith Donath, Science Magazine, July 6, 2007
• Fake bloggers soon to be ‘named and shamed
  Sam Coates, Political Correspondent, Times Online
• Collection on Delicious

[edit] Sign In – Registration – Forms

• Web Form Design Patterns: Sign Up Forms, Part 2
  July 8, 2008, Smashing Magazine
• Web Form Design Patterns: Sign-Up Forms
  July 4, 2008, Smashing Magazine
• Account Sign-in: 8 Design Mistakes to Avoid
  by Jared Spool, UIE, Jan 04, 2008
• 8 More Design Mistakes with Account Sign-in
  by Jared Spool, UIE, Jan 14, 2008

[edit] Recommendations

• If You Liked This, You’re Sure to Love That
  By CLIVE THOMPSON, Published: November 21, 2008, The New York Times

[edit] Social Networks

• 12 Great Tales of De-Friending
  by David Spark, November 25, 2008, Mashable.com
• The groundswell gives Motrin a headache
  by Josh Bernoff, Groundswell blog, November 17, 2008
• Motrin Screws Up in Tweetland
  By John Biggs November 17th, 2008, Crunchgear
• Friends Indeed?
  By Joel Garreau, Washington Post, Sunday, April 20, 2008
• Social Networks and Group Formation
  by Shiv Singh, Boxes and Arrows, 2007/09/06
• The dynamics of Web-based social networks: Membership relationships and change
  by Jennifer Golbeck, First Monday, Volume 12 Number 11 – 5 November 2007
• Online Social Networking as Participatory Surveillance
  by Anders Albrechtslund, First Monday, Volume 13, Number 3 – 3 March 2008
• Friends, Friendsters and Top 8: Writing Community into being on social network sites
  by Danah Boyd, First Monday, Volume 11, Number 12 — 4 December 2006
• A privacy paradox: Social networking in the United States
  by Susan Barnes First Monday, Volume 11, Number 9 — 4 September 2006
• Five heuristics for designing and evaluating Web-based communities
  by Linda M. Gallant, Gloria M. Boone and Austin Heap, First Monday, Volume 12, Number 3 — 5 March 2007
• Digital gifts: Participation and gift exchange in LiveJournal communities
  by Erika Pearson, First Monday, Volume 12, Number 5 — 7 May 2007
• Q&A with Larry Brilliant, Co-founder of The Well
  Wired Magazine, 12.20.07
• Q&A With Stewart Brand, Co-founder of The Well
  Wired Magazine, 12.20.07
• Proto Social Network ‘The Well’ Runneth Over
  By Erik Malinowski, Wired Magazine, 12.20.07
• The Epic Saga of The Well
  By Katie Hafner, Wired Magazine, May 1997, Issue 5.05
• Life and death on the Well
  by Janelle Brown, Salon, April 17, 2001
• Clive Thompson on How Twitter Creates a Social Sixth Sense
  by Clive Thompson, Wired Magazine, 15.07, 06.26.07
• Six Degrees to Nowhere
  by Janelle Brown, Salon, Sept. 21, 1998
• Facebook Got Its $15 Billion Valuation — Now What?
  By Julie Sloane, Wired, 10.26.07
• Why is Facebook so addictive?
  blog post, Salon Machinist, 2008.08.07 • 13:15 EDT
• The Social Networking Guide for Newbies
  By: Karen Post, Fast Company, From Issue | September 2007
• Is MySpace Good for Society? A Freakonomics Quorum
  By Stephen J. Dubner, New York Times blog Freakonomics, February 15, 2008, 1:18 pm
• Ning’s Infinite Ambition
  By: Adam L. Penenberg, Fast Company, From Issue 125 | May 2008
• Why Facebook Is Even Bigger than You Think
  By: Kermit Pattison, Fast Company, From Issue | May 2008
• Collection on delicious

[edit] Relationships

• You are who you know
  by Andrew Leonard, Salon, Jun 15, 2004
• You are who you know: Part 2
  by Andrew Leonard, Salon, Jun 16, 2004
• Friends May Be the Best Guide Through the Noise
  By Brad Stone, New York Times Essay, Published: May 4, 2008
• Collection on delicious

[edit] Misc

• Google Search Wiki is not a Wiki
  Written by Marshall Kirkpatrick / November 24, 2008 12:58 PM, Read Write Web
• A Call for Revolution Against Beta Culture
  By Jesus Diaz, 11:20 AM on Fri Nov 21 2008, Gizmodo
• Brave New World of Digital Intimacy
  by Clive Thompson, New York Times, September 5, 2008
• What Is Web 2.0: Design Patterns and Business Models for the Next Generation of Software
  by Tim O’Reilly, 09/30/2005
• Computer Human Values
  by Nathan Shedroff, Boxes and Arrows, 2002/06/23
• Final article from software patterns column
  author James O. Coplien, C++ Report 12(5), May 2000, pp. 42 – 44
• Social Media Eat Porn’s Lunch (Again)
  by Regina Lynn, Wired, 05.23.08
• Exploring the Dark Side of Crowdsourcing
  by Derek Powazek Wired 07.11.07
• The Roots of Bust 2.0
  By Gary Rivlin Wired Magazine, Issue 12.04 | April 2004
• The Hit Factory
  by Jeff Howe, Wired Magazine, Issue 13.11 – November 2005
• The Rise of Crowdsourcing
  by Jeff Howe, Wired Magazine, Issue 14.06 – June 2006
• What’s the matter with kids today? Nothing, actually. Aside from our panic that the Internet is melting their brains
  By Amy Goldwasser, Salon, March 14, 2008
• MySpace frees your data. Will Facebook follow?
  blog post, Salon Machinist, 2008.05.09 • 12:06 EDT
• It’s the Software, Not You
  columnist David Pogue, New York Times Online, July 31, 2008, 12:31 pm
• Harnessing the Power of the Oh-So-Social Web
  by Josh Bernoff and Charlene Li, MIT Sloan Management Review, Reprint 49301; Spring 2008, Vol. 49, No. 3, pp. 36-42
• The Social Network as a Career Safety Net
  By Sarah Jane Tribble, New York Times, Published: August 13, 2008
• The Power of Many
  by Marco Visscher, Ode Magazine, May 2007
• Kids reveal the future of the Internet
  by Craig Cox, Ode Magazine, October 2006
• Nine Principles for Making Virtual Communities Work
  By Mike Godwin, Wired Magazine, Issue 2.06, June 1994
• Social Networking collection on delicious
• Social Media collection on delicious