What makes connective media platforms — such as Facebook, Reddit, New York Times, and Uber — successful? The goal of this project-based course is to merge social science, information science, computer science and engineering approaches to explore the social and technological forces driving connective media services (including, for example, interaction design, social networks, computational and information aspects of social media, communication and motivation theories). Students will form teams to conceptualize, design and implement a connective media application. The teams will build on the respective strength of students of different backgrounds to theorize, write, design, reason, build and manage connective media applications.