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== course description == <span id="university-catalog-course-description"></span> === university catalog course description === Online communities are important to our cultural, social, and economic lives and especially to how we find and share information. Yet they also threaten our well-being and may undermine critical social institutions as well as the integrity of public discourse. This course is an interdisciplinary inquiry that seeks to understand online communities. It covers the history of online communities from their origins in the pre-Internet to the rise of social media platforms and contemporary challenges and also the social, psychological, and human-computer interaction research that both explains the practical barriers to building an online community and motivates technical and organizational designs that aim to overcome them. <span id="pre-requisites-for-the-course"></span> === pre-requisites for the course === I 310S Introduction to Social Informatics <span id="learning-outcomes"></span> === learning outcomes === This course is designed to enable students to achieve the following goals: # Understand and critically engage central theories, historical examples, and contemporary problems important to the growth and success of online communities. # Write and speak fluently about the rules and norms of the Wikipedia community and demonstrate this fluency through successful contributions to Wikipedia. # Acquire fluency in the Wikipedia community’s rules and norms and demonstrate this by making successful contributions to Wikipedia. # Generate original insights by extending the course material to analysis of a real online community of your choice. # Communicate the above through in-class discussion, compelling writing, and oral presentation. <span id="history-of-this-course"></span> === history of this course === I have developed this syllabus for the programs in social informatics and user experience design at the School of Information at the University of Texas at Austin. In doing so, I built upon a course I previously taught at the University of Washington department of Communication under the supervision of Dr. Benjamin Mako Hill. I have imported some improvements to this material created by Professor Hill and Kaylea Champion at the UW. I have also drawn on a similar course in Communication Studies at Northwestern University taught by Professor Aaron Shaw. <span id="how-will-you-learn"></span>
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