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== Course Requirements and Grading == <span id="required-materials"></span> === Required Materials === You do not need to purchase any materials for this class. All required readings for this course are available electronically via UT libraries or will be shared via Canvas. That said, you may wish to obtain either via purchase or the library the following books which I think are great and serve as the main texts for the course. In the [[#schedule|course schedule]] below, which lists the assigned readings and their deadlines, I will refer to these books using the abbreviations “BSOC”, “SYBW”, “TMW”, and “WTR”. {| class="wikitable" |- ! ! Citation ! style="text-align: center;"| Photo ! Abbreviation |- | 1. | Kraut, Robert E, Paul Resnick. Building Successful Online Communities : Evidence-Based Social Design / Robert E. Kraut and Paul Resnick ; with Sara Kiesler [and Others]. Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press, 2011. Print | style="text-align: center;"| [[File:Bsoc cover.jpg|x200px]] | BSOC |- | 2. | Bruckman AS. Should You Believe Wikipedia?: Online Communities and the Construction of Knowledge. Cambridge University Press; 2022. | style="text-align: center;"| [[File:Sybw cover.jpg|x200px]] | SYBW |- | 3. | Driscoll, Kevin. The Modem World: A Prehistory of Social Media, New Haven: Yale University Press, 2022. | style="text-align: center;"| [[File:Tmw cover.jpg|x200px]] | TMW |- | 4. | Ford, Heather. Writing the Revolution: Wikipedia and the Survival of Facts in the Digital Age, Cambridge: MIT Press, 2022 | style="text-align: center;"| [[File:Wtr cover.jpg|x200px]] | WTR |} <span id="sharing-of-course-material-is-prohibited"></span> === Sharing of Course Material is Prohibited === No materials used in this class, including, but not limited to, lecture hand-outs, videos, assessments (quizzes, exams, papers, projects, homework assignments), in-class materials, review sheets, and additional problem sets, may be shared online or with anyone outside of the class without my explicit, my written permission. Unauthorized sharing of materials may facilitate cheating. The University is aware of the sites used for sharing materials, and any materials found online that are associated with you, or any suspected unauthorized sharing of materials, will be reported to [https://deanofstudents.utexas.edu/conduct/ Student Conduct and Academic Integrity] in the Office of the Dean of Students. These reports can result in initiation of the student conduct process and include charge(s) for academic misconduct, potentially resulting in sanctions, including a grade impact. <span id="required-devices"></span> === Required Devices === Access to a ''computer'' with an Internet connection is required for success in the course. A phone is not enough due to the complexity of Wikipedia’s user interfaces for editing. If you need help accessing a computer research, see [[#getting-help-with-technology|getting help with technology]] below. <span id="confidentiality-of-class-recordings"></span> === Confidentiality of Class Recordings === I will not record in-person classes, but you may record ''class audio, but not video'' for your personal use. Class recordings are reserved only for students in this class for educational purposes and are protected under FERPA. The recordings should not be shared outside the class in any form. Violation of this restriction by a student could lead to Student Misconduct proceedings. <span id="getting-help-with-technology"></span> === Getting Help with Technology === Students needing help with technology in this course should contact the [https://its.utexas.edu/contact ITS Service Desk] or [insert contact information for your local support unit(s) and for course materials, software, hardware, or other technology used in your course]. <span id="classroom-expectations"></span> === Classroom Expectations === '''Class attendance:''' You are expected to attend every class in order to participate in discussions, case analyses, complete in-class assignments, and other activities that will advance our learning goals and class projects. That said, there will not be direct consequences for absences beyond lost points from case discussions and reading quizzes. See the [[#absences|absences]] policy below. '''Class participation''' is encouraged and is likely to increase your learning and ability to create excellent work in the interest of your grade, but is not formally graded outside of the [[#reading-quizzes|reading quizzes]] and [[#case-analyses|case analyses]]. '''Behavior expectations:''' You are accountable to the [https://catalog.utexas.edu/general-information/appendices/appendix-c/student-conduct-and-academic-integrity institutional rules governing student conduct and academic integrity]. In addition to these policies, I expect you to adhere to [https://foundation.wikimedia.org/wiki/Policy:Universal_Code_of_Conduct the Wikimedia foundation’s universal code of conduct] in the context of your participation in Wikipedia as well as the codes of conduct that apply to any other online communities you may participate in as part of your course activities. In addition, we will collectively develop a code of conduct to which we will hold ourselves throughout the term. <span id="course-evalutions"></span> === Course Evalutions === The quality of my teaching is very important to me. Feeback from you is enormously useful to help me improve my teaching. I plan to have you fill out two surveys, one around week 4 and another around week 8 for you to give me feedback. At the end of the term I will award 5 extra credit points to those who complete course evaluations. <span id="content-warning"></span> === Content Warning === Our classroom provides an open space for the critical and orderly exchange of ideas through discussion. Some readings and other content in this course will include topics and comments that you may find offensive and/or traumatizing. I’ll aim to forewarn you about potentially disturbing content and I ask everyone to help to create an atmosphere of mutual respect and sensitivity. <span id="artificial-intelligence"></span> === Artificial Intelligence === The creation of artificial intelligence tools for widespread use is an exciting innovation. These tools have both appropriate and inappropriate uses in classwork. The use of artificial intelligence tools (such as ChatGPT) in this class ''is permitted'' for those who wish to use them, provided the content generated by AI is ''properly cited''. This means that if you use GPT to generate text as a part of writing an assignment, and you include that text unedited, you should quote the text and cite GPT the model you used, indicating the date you used it. If you substantially edit or paraphrase the generated text, you do not need to quote the model, but you should still cite it. Also keep in mind that written material generated (and not subsequently revised) by AI may be assess poorly according to the [[#writing-rubric|writing rubric]] considerable revision. This policy applied to any computer-generated content including images. If you are considering the use of AI writing tools but are unsure if you are allowed or the extent to which they may be utilized appropriately, please ask me or the TA. For more information about AI in education, see the Center for Teaching and Learning’s [https://ctl.utexas.edu/5-things-know-about-chatgpt “5 Things to Know about ChatGPT” webpage] that includes [https://ctl.utexas.edu/chatgpt-and-generative-ai-tools-sample-syllabus-policy-statements additional suggested syllabi statements] for your consideration. The University provides access to the copilot chatbot through your institutional microsoft account. Login with your utexas.edu email address at [https://copilot.microsoft.com ].
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