Editing Designing Internet Research (Spring 2025) (section)

=== Thursday April 17: Agent-Based Simulation (Traditional & Generative) ===

;Required Readings:

* Macy, Michael W., and Robert Willer. 2002. “From Factors to Actors: Computational Sociology and Agent-Based Modeling.” ''Annual Review of Sociology'' 28 (Volume 28, 2002): 143–66. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev.soc.28.110601.141117. {{avail-uw|https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev.soc.28.110601.141117}}
* '''[Example]''' Ren, Yuqing, and Robert E. Kraut. 2014. “Agent-Based Modeling to Inform Online Community Design: Impact of Topical Breadth, Message Volume, and Discussion Moderation on Member Commitment and Contribution.” ''Human–Computer Interaction'' 29 (4): 351–89. https://doi.org/10.1080/07370024.2013.828565. {{avail-free|https://doi.org/10.1080/07370024.2013.828565}}
* Messeri, Lisa, and M. J. Crockett. 2024. “Artificial Intelligence and Illusions of Understanding in Scientific Research.” ''Nature'' 627 (8002): 49–58. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-024-07146-0. {{avail-uw|https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-024-07146-0}}
* Park, Joon Sung, Lindsay Popowski, Carrie Cai, Meredith Ringel Morris, Percy Liang, and Michael S. Bernstein. 2022. “Social Simulacra: Creating Populated Prototypes for Social Computing Systems.” In ''Proceedings of the 35th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology'', 1–18. UIST ’22. New York, NY, USA: Association for Computing Machinery. https://doi.org/10.1145/3526113.3545616. {{avail-free|https://doi.org/10.1145/3526113.3545616}}
* Park, Joon Sung, Carolyn Q. Zou, Aaron Shaw, Benjamin Mako Hill, Carrie Cai, Meredith Ringel Morris, Robb Willer, Percy Liang, and Michael S. Bernstein. 2024. “Generative Agent Simulations of 1,000 People.” ''arXiv''. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2411.10109. {{avail-free|https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2411.10109}}

;Optional Readings:
* Wilensky, Uri, and William Rand. 2015. ''An Introduction to Agent-Based Modeling: Modeling Natural, Social, and Engineered Complex Systems with NetLogo.'' Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press. ''[Available from instructor]'' 
* Park, Joon Sung, Joseph O’Brien, Carrie Jun Cai, Meredith Ringel Morris, Percy Liang, and Michael S. Bernstein. 2023. “Generative Agents: Interactive Simulacra of Human Behavior.” In ''Proceedings of the 36th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology'', 1–22. UIST ’23. New York, NY, USA: Association for Computing Machinery. https://doi.org/10.1145/3586183.3606763. {{avail-free|https://doi.org/10.1145/3586183.3606763}}