Editing Online Communities and Crowds (Spring 2025) (section)

== Schedule (with all the details) ==

=== Week 1: Origins (04.01, 04.02) ===

==== Lectures ====
# Introduction
# Course logistics
# Birth of the "modem world"

==== Assignments ====
* Complete [https://canvas.northwestern.edu/courses/229769/assignments/1560729 the course welcome survey] (link to a google form via Canvas).
* Kevin Driscoll. 2022. ''The Modem World: A Prehistory of Social Media''. Yale UP. [https://canvas.northwestern.edu/courses/229769/modules/items/3381362 Chapter 1 (p. 1--28)].
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJgRHYw9-fU&list=PLgE-9Sxs2IBVgJkY-1ZMj0tIFxsJ-vOkv The BBS Documentary] (watch the first video/part. Feel free to watch more if you get into it).
* Complete [https://dashboard.wikiedu.org/courses/Northwestern_University/Online_communities_and_crowds_(Spring_2025)/timeline#week-1 Week 1 Wikipedia Assignment exercises].

==== Additional resources (not required! optional!) ====
* John Perry Barlow. 1996. [https://www.eff.org/cyberspace-independence A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace].
* Katie Hafner. 1997. [http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/5.05/ff_well_pr.html The epic saga of The WELL]. Wired Magazine. (Long magazine article!)
* Stanford 2011 symposium: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5kQYWLtW3Y From Counterculture to Cyberculture: the Legacy of the Whole Earth Catalog].
* Steve Jobs. 2005. [http://news.stanford.edu/news/2005/june15/jobs-061505.html Commencement Address]. Stanford University, Stanford, CA. (Note: you can watch or read this one in various places)
* Margaret O'Mara. 2019 ''The Code: Silicon Valley and the Remaking of America''. Penguin Press.
* Fred Turner. 2005. [http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/technology_and_culture/v046/46.3turner.html Where the counterculture met the new economy: The WELL and the origins of virtual community]. ''Technology and Culture.''

=== Week 2: Definitions (04.07, 04.09) ===
==== Lectures ====
# What (was|is) a ''community'' anyway?
# Crowds: Their madness and wisdom
# Defining online communities & crowds

==== Assignments ====
* [https://canvas.northwestern.edu/courses/229769/modules/items/3416223 Week 2 Discussion Prompts]
* Oldenburg, Ray. 1989. ''The great good place: Cafés, coffee shops, community centers, beauty parlors, general stores, bars, hangouts, and how they get you through the day.'' Paragon House Publishers. [https://canvas.northwestern.edu/files/21562818/download?download_frd=1 Chapter 1 ("The Problem of Place in America") and Chapter 2 ("The Character of Third Places")].
* Bruckman, Amy. 2006. [https://canvas.northwestern.edu/files/21562819/download?download_frd=1 A new perspective on ‘community’ and its implications for computer-mediated communication systems]. In ''Extended Abstracts of the ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems'', pp. 616-621. (Also available from [https://www.cc.gatech.edu/~asb/papers/conference/bruckman-community-chi06.pdf Amy Bruckman's website])
* Complete [https://dashboard.wikiedu.org/courses/Northwestern_University/Online_communities_and_crowds_(Spring_2025)/timeline#week-2 Week 2 Wikipedia Assignment exercises]

==== Additional (optional!) resources ====
* Bruckman, Amy. 2016. [https://nextbison.wordpress.com/2016/04/29/the-rheingold-test The Rheingold test].
* Kim, Amy Jo. 1998. [https://people.apache.org/~jim/NewArchitect/webtech/1998/01/kim/ Nine timeless principles for building community]. Available via ''New Architect'' magazine archives.
* Aniket Kittur, Jeffrey V. Nickerson, Michael Bernstein, Elizabeth Gerber, Aaron Shaw, John Zimmerman, Matt Lease, and John Horton. 2013. [https://doi.org/10.1145/2441776.2441923 The future of crowd work]. In Proceedings of the 2013 conference on Computer supported cooperative work (CSCW '13). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 1301–1318.

=== Week 3: Participation (04.16) ===

==== Lectures ====
# [https://northwestern.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Sessions/List.aspx?folderID=7942198a-b4f1-4f1e-bfa7-ae1f011d2915 Motivating participation + Participation inequalities] ('''recorded lectures from 2022!''')
# "Too much democracy in all the wrong places"

==== Assignments ====
* [https://canvas.northwestern.edu/courses/229769/modules/items/3424786 Week 3 Discussion Prompts]
* Kraut & Resnick. ''Building Successful Online Communities.'' [https://kraut.hciresearch.info/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Kraut10-Contribution-current.pdf Encouraging contributions to online communities (Chapter 2)] (pdf from Kraut's Web site).
* Complete [https://dashboard.wikiedu.org/courses/Northwestern_University/Online_communities_and_crowds_(Spring_2025)/timeline#week-3 Week 3 Wikipedia Assignment exercises]
:;; Useful resources for case study on Twitch (For Wednesday)
* Andrew, Scottie. 2021. [https://www.cnn.com/2021/09/02/tech/twitch-day-off-boycott-racism-cec/index.html  Black and LGBTQ streamers on Twitch boycotted the platform after repeated ‘hate raids’]. CNN. September 2, 2021.
* Broadway, Danielle. 2022. [https://www.allure.com/story/black-twitch-beauty-creators-hate-raids Racist Abuse on Twitch Is Holding Black Beauty Creators Back]. Allure.com. March 11, 2022.
* Clark, Taylor. 2017. [https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/11/20/how-to-get-rich-playing-video-games-online How to Get Rich Playing Video Games Online]. New Yorker, November 13, 2017.
* Hernandez, Patricia. 2018. [https://www.theverge.com/2018/7/16/17569520/twitch-streamers-zero-viewers-motivation-community The Twitch Streamers Who Spend Years Broadcasting to No One]. The Verge. July 16, 2018.
* Grayson, Nathan. 2018. [https://kotaku.com/twitch-partners-feeling-burned-after-affiliates-receive-1826810027 Twitch Partners Feeling Burned After Affiliates Receive Features That Took Them Years To Earn]. Kotaku. June 14, 2018.
* [https://gameonaire.com/differences-between-partner-affiliate-twitch/ The Differences Between Twitch Partner and Affiliate Programs]. 2019. GameOnAire (blog). April 5, 2019.
* [https://help.twitch.tv/s/article/achievements?language=en_US. Achievements]. n.d. Twitch. Accessed January 15, 2022.
<!---:;; Case study on Yelp (For Wednesday)
* Modi, Maulik. 2019. “Yelp — What Happened!!” ''Medium''. December 1, 2019. https://medium.com/@maulikmmodi94/yelp-what-happened-62c325f13235.
* Parikh, Anish A., Carl Behnke, Doug Nelson, Mihaela Vorvoreanu, and Barbara Almanza. 2015. “A Qualitative Assessment of Yelp.Com Users’ Motivations to Submit and Read Restaurant Reviews.” ''Journal of Culinary Science & Technology'' 13 (1): 1–18.
* Stone, Madeline. 2014. “Elite Yelpers Hold Immense Power, and They Get Treated like Kings by Bars and Restaurants Trying to Curry Favor.” ''Business Insider''. August 22, 2014. https://www.businessinsider.com/how-to-become-yelp-elite-2014-8. {{avail-free|https://web.archive.org/web/20140824231420/https://www.businessinsider.com/how-to-become-yelp-elite-2014-8}}
* Ha, Anthony. 2017. “Yelp Launches New Feature for Asking and Answering Questions about Any Business.” ''TechCrunch'' (blog). February 14, 2017. https://techcrunch.com/2017/02/14/yelp-q-and-a/.
* Noble, Safiya Umoja. 2018. “Algorithms and Invisibility: My Interview with Kandis.” In ''Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism'', Illustrated edition, 172–79. New York: NYU Press.--->

===== Additional resources =====
* Buechley, L. and Hill, B. M. 2010. [https://mako.cc/academic/buechley_hill_DIS_10.pdf LilyPad in the wild: How hardware's long tail is supporting new engineering and design communities]. Proceedings of the ACM Designing Interactive Systems (DIS) Conference.
* Catherine Han, Joseph Seering, Deepak Kumar, Jeffrey T. Hancock, and Zakir Durumeric. 2023. [https://doi.org/10.1145/3579609 Hate Raids on Twitch: Echoes of the Past, New Modalities, and Implications for Platform Governance]. Proc. ACM Hum.-Comput. Interact. 7, CSCW1, Article 133 (April 2023), 28 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3579609.
* Herskowitz, Matthew. 2024. “Meet One of the Most Prolific People on Yelp.” Eater. July 18, 2024. https://www.eater.com/24200490/yelp-elite-frequent-reviewer-interviewer.
* Kelty, Christopher, M. 2017. [https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/pdfplus/10.1086/688705 Too Much Democracy in All the Wrong Places: Toward a Grammar of Participation]. Current Anthropology 2017 58:S15, S77-S90 
* Kelty, C. and Erickson, S. 2018. [https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01972243.2018.1463046 Two modes of participation: A conceptual analysis of 102 cases of Internet and social media participation from 2005–2015]. The Information Society, 34(2): 71–87.
* van de Rijt et al. 2014. [https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1316836111 Field experiments of success-breeds-success dynamics]. Proceedings of the National Academies of Sciences (PNAS).
* Dunbar-Hester, Christina. 2020. Hacking diversity: The politics of inclusion in open technology cultures. ([https://canvas.northwestern.edu/files/12898596/download?download_frd=1 Chapters 1, 7, 8])

=== Week 4: Newcomers (04.21, 04.23) ===

==== Lectures ====
# Newcomer recruitment and socialization
# On the varieties of newcomer experience

==== Assignments ====
* [https://canvas.northwestern.edu/courses/229769/modules/items/3430902 Week 4 Discussion Prompts]
* Kraut & Resnick. ''Building Successful Online Communities'', [https://kraut.hciresearch.info/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/kraut10-Newcomers-current.pdf Dealing with newcomers (Chapter 5)] (pdf from Kraut's Web site).
* Charles Kiene, Andrés Monroy-Hernández, and Benjamin Mako Hill. 2016. [https://doi.org/10.1145/2858036.2858356 Surviving an "Eternal September": How an Online Community Managed a Surge of Newcomers]. In Proceedings of the 2016 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '16). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 1152–1156. https://doi.org/10.1145/2858036.2858356
* [https://www.reddit.com/r/nosleep/wiki/index/ Posting Guidelines], r/nosleep Wiki. Accessed April 16, 2025.
* Complete [https://dashboard.wikiedu.org/courses/Northwestern_University/Online_communities_and_crowds_(Spring_2025)/timeline#week-4 Week 4 Wikipedia Assignment exercises]

==== Additional resources ====
* Susan L. Bryant, Andrea Forte, and Amy Bruckman. 2005. [https://doi.org/10.1145/1099203.1099205 Becoming Wikipedian: transformation of participation in a collaborative online encyclopedia]. In Proceedings of the 2005 international ACM SIGGROUP conference on Supporting group work (GROUP '05).
* Corey Brian Jackson, Carsten Østerlund, Kevin Crowston, Mahboobeh Harandi, and Laura Trouille. 2020. [https://doi.org/10.1145/3392841 Shifting forms of Engagement: Volunteer Learning in Online Citizen Science]. Proc. ACM Hum.-Comput. Interact. 4, CSCW1, Article 036, 19 pages.
* Aaron Halfaker, Aniket Kittur, and John Riedl. 2011. [http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2038558.2038585 Don't bite the newbies: How reverts affect the quantity and quality of Wikipedia work]. In Proceedings of the 7th International Symposium on Wikis and Open Collaboration (WikiSym '11). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 163--172.
* Casey Fiesler and Brianna Dym. 2020. [https://doi.org/10.1145/3392847 Moving Across Lands: Online Platform Migration in Fandom Communities]. Proc. ACM Hum.-Comput. Interact. 4, CSCW1, Article 042 (May 2020), 25 pages. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1145/3392847
* Preece, Jennifer and Schneiderman, Ben. 2009. [https://aisel.aisnet.org/thci/vol1/iss1/5/ The reader-to-leader framework: Motivating technology-mediated social participation]. ''AIS Transaction on Human-Computer Interaction.''
* Seering et al. 2020. [https://dl.acm.org/doi/fullHtml/10.1145/3313831.3376151 Proximate social factors in first-time contribution to online communities]. CHI.
* Sneha Narayan, Jake Orlowitz, Jonathan Morgan, Benjamin Mako Hill, and Aaron Shaw. 2017. [https://doi.org/10.1145/2998181.2998307 The Wikipedia Adventure: Field Evaluation of an Interactive Tutorial for New Users]. In Proceedings of the 2017 ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CSCW '17).

=== Week 5: Identity (04.28, 04.30) ===

==== Lectures ====
# Identity: The presentation of online self
# Privacy, context, and disclosure
# Anonymity: Threat or menace?

==== Assignments ====
* [https://canvas.northwestern.edu/courses/229769/modules/items/3432935 Week 5 Discussion Prompts]
* Complete [https://dashboard.wikiedu.org/courses/Northwestern_University/Online_communities_and_crowds_(Spring_2025)/timeline#week-5 Week 5 Wikipedia Assignment exercises]
* Nazanin Andalibi, Oliver L. Haimson, Munmun De Choudhury, and Andrea Forte. 2016. Understanding Social Media Disclosures of Sexual Abuse Through the Lenses of Support Seeking and Anonymity. In Proceedings of the 2016 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '16). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 3906–3918. https://doi.org/10.1145/2858036.2858096 (via [http://www.munmund.net/pubs/chi16_sexualabuse.pdf De Choudhury's website]).
* Kishonna L. Gray. 2012. [https://doi.org/10.1080/1369118X.2011.642401 Intersecting oppressions and online communities]. Information, Communication & Society, 15:3, 411-428, DOI: 10.1080/1369118X.2011.642401

==== Additional resources ====
* Bernstein, M., Monroy-Hernández, A., Harry, D., André, P., Panovich, K., & Vargas, G. 2011. [https://ojs.aaai.org/index.php/ICWSM/article/view/14134 4chan and /b/: An Analysis of Anonymity and Ephemerality in a Large Online Community]. Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media, 5(1), 50-57.
* Julian Dibbell (1993, Dec 23). [http://www.juliandibbell.com/texts/bungle_vv.html A rape in cyberspace: How an evil clown, a Haitian trickster spirit, two wizards, and a cast of dozens turned a database into a society]. The Village Voice. 
* Judith Donath. 1998. [http://judithdonath.net/papers/Donath/IdentityDeception/IdentityDeception.pdf Identity and deception in the virtual community]. In Kollock, P. and Smith, M. (eds). ''Communities in Cyberspace''. London: Routledge. pp. 37-68.
* Benjamin Mako Hill, Aaron Shaw. [https://mako.cc/academic/hill_shaw-hidden_costs_of_requiring_accounts-PREPRINT.pdf The Hidden Costs of Requiring Accounts: Quasi-Experimental Evidence From Peer Production]. Communication Research (2020): 0093650220910345.
* Goffman, Erving. 1959. ''The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life.'' (excerpts)
*  K. L. Gray. 2012. [https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13614568.2012.746740 Deviant bodies, stigmatized identities, and racist acts: examining the experiences of African-American gamers in Xbox Live], New Review of Hypermedia and Multimedia, 18:4, 261-276, https://10.1080/13614568.2012.746740

=== Week 6: Governance (05.05, 05.07) ===

==== Lectures ====
# Rules, norms, governance: A crude and brief synthesis
# Governance in practice

==== Assignments ====
* [https://canvas.northwestern.edu/courses/229769/modules/items/3439568 Week 6 Discussion Prompts]
* Kiesler, S, Kittur, A., Kraut, R., & Resnick, P. 2012. [https://kraut.hciresearch.info/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/kiesler10-Regulation-current.pdf Regulating behavior in online communities] in Kraut, R. and Resnick, P. ''Building Successful Online Communities'' (Chapter 4; focus for first half—through p. 21— for Mon.; the rest for Wed.).
* Complete [https://dashboard.wikiedu.org/courses/Northwestern_University/Online_communities_and_crowds_(Spring_2025)/timeline#week-6 Week 6 Wikipedia Assignment exercises]
;'''Case resources (for Monday)'''
* Fiesler, Casey, Jialun Jiang, Joshua McCann, Kyle Frye, and Jed Brubaker. 2018. [https://doi.org/10.1609/icwsm.v12i1.15033 Reddit Rules! Characterizing an Ecosystem of Governance]. Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM) 12 (1). https://doi.org/10.1609/icwsm.v12i1.15033.
* Rules side-bar (right-hand side of the page) for the following subreddits (for some, you'll have expand each rule):
** r/AmItheAsshole
** r/nosleep (again)
** r/Northwestern
* [https://www.yelp.com/guidelines Yelp's guidelines] (be sure to click 'expand all')
;'''Case resources (for Wednesday)'''
* Johnson, Anne. 2014. “Policing The Trolls: The Ins and Outs of Comment Moderation.” ''NPR'', September 24, 2014, sec. Fairness & Accuracy. https://www.npr.org/sections/publiceditor/2014/09/24/348775874/policing-the-trolls-the-ins-and-outs-of-comment-moderation.
* Lomas, Natasha. 2015. “Can Civil Comments Kill The Internet Troll?” ''TechCrunch'' (blog). October 31, 2015. https://techcrunch.com/2015/10/31/can-civil-comments-kill-internet-trolls/.
* Schneider, Daniel J. and Errc Lubbers. 2017. “Our Article Comments Have Been a Cesspool of Trolls and Spam for Years. Enter Civil Comments.” ''The Denver Post'' (blog). May 23, 2017. https://www.denverpost.com/2017/05/22/denver-post-civil-comments/.

==== Additional resources ====
* Gillespie, Tarleton. 2018. [https://culturedigitally.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Gillespie-Governance-ofby-Platforms-PREPRINT.pdf Governance of and by platforms]. In Sage Handbook of Social Media, Jean Burgess,Thomas Poell, and Alice Marwick (eds).
* Hampton, Rachelle. 2019. [https://slate.com/technology/2019/04/black-feminists-alt-right-twitter-gamergate.html The black feminists who saw the alt-right coming]. Slate.
* Horta Ribeiro, Manoel, Shagun Jhaver, Savvas Zannettou, Jeremy Blackburn, Gianluca Stringhini, Emiliano De Cristofaro, and Robert West. 2021. [https://dlab.epfl.ch/people/west/pub/HortaRibeiro-Jhaver-Zannettou-Blackburn-DeCristofaro-Stringhini-West_CSCW-21.pdf Do Platform Migrations Compromise Content Moderation? Evidence from r/The_Donald and r/Incels]. Proc. ACM Hum.-Comput. Interact. 5, CSCW2, Article 316 (October 2021), 24 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3476057
* Ilori, Tomiwa. 2020. [https://slate.com/technology/2020/08/social-media-content-moderation-african-nations.html Content moderation is particularly hard in African countries]. Slate.
* Massachi, Saher. 2021. [https://www.technologyreview.com/2021/12/20/1042709/how-to-save-social-media-treat-it-like-a-city/ How to save our social media by treating it like a city]. MIT Technology Review.
* Schneider, Nathan. 2021. [https://doi.org/10.1177/1461444820986553 Admins, Mods, and Benevolent Dictators for Life: The Implicit Feudalism of Online Communities]. New Media & Society.

=== Week 7: Quality (05.12, 05.14) ===

==== Lectures ====
# How do they do it? Community production dynamics
# Social production, social failures

==== Assignments ====
* [https://canvas.northwestern.edu/files/21976697/download?download_frd=1 Week 7 Discussion Prompts]
* Benjamin Mako Hill, Christian Pentzold, Aaron Shaw. Unpublished manuscript. [https://canvas.northwestern.edu/files/21976084/download?download_frd=1 ''Peer Production: A Concise Introduction'']. (For Monday: read chapter 1; skim chapters 2-3; read chapter 4. For Wednesday: read 5).
* ['''Watch the video of the talk''' (for Monday)] Casey Fiesler, Shannon Morrison, and Amy S. Bruckman. 2016. [https://doi.org/10.1145/2858036.2858409 An Archive of Their Own: A Case Study of Feminist HCI and Values in Design]. In Proceedings of the 2016 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '16). https://doi.org/10.1145/2858036.2858409 (for Monday. Please watch the presentation video that is archived on the same page as the paper. For our purposes, you don't need to read the paper!).
* Complete [https://dashboard.wikiedu.org/courses/Northwestern_University/Online_communities_and_crowds_(Spring_2025)/timeline#week-7 Week 7 Wikipedia Assignment exercises]
* Submit [[Online_Communities_and_Crowds_(Spring_2025)/Wikipedia_assignment#Submission|Wikipedia Advising Report]] (Due May 16 5pm).

==== Additional resources ====
* Ashley Colley, Jacob Thebault-Spieker, Allen Yilun Lin, Donald Degraen, Benjamin Fischman, Jonna Häkkilä, Kate Kuehl, Valentina Nisi, Nuno Jardim Nunes, Nina Wenig, Dirk Wenig, Brent Hecht, and Johannes Schöning. 2017. [https://doi.org/10.1145/3025453.3025495 The Geography of Pokémon GO: Beneficial and Problematic Effects on Places and Movement]. In Proceedings of the 2017 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '17). https://doi.org/10.1145/3025453.3025495
* Benkler, Yochai. 2006. [https://cyber.harvard.edu/wealth_of_networks/Download_PDFs_of_the_book The Wealth of Networks]. Yale University Press. Ch. 2 excerpt (pp. 29-34) & Ch. 3 (all).
* King, Gary, Jennifer Pan, and Margaret E. Roberts. (2017). [https://gking.harvard.edu/files/gking/files/how_the_chinese_government_fabricates_social_media_posts_for_strategic_distraction_not_engaged_argument.pdf How the Chinese government fabricates social media posts for strategic distraction, not engaged argument]. American Political Science Review 111, no. 3: 484-501.
* Stallman, R. (1984). [https://www.gnu.org/gnu/manifesto.html The GNU manifesto].
* Stallman, R. (1989). [https://gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/gpl-1.0.html The GNU general public license, version 1]. 
* Kate Starbird, Ahmer Arif, and Tom Wilson. 2019. [https://doi.org/10.1145/3359229 Disinformation as Collaborative Work: Surfacing the Participatory Nature of Strategic Information Operations]. Proc. ACM Hum.-Comput. Interact. 3, CSCW, Article 127 (November 2019). https://doi.org/10.1145/3359229
* von Hippel, E. (2012). [http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=cKcAcm5NDOI The Paradigm Shift from Producer to User Innovation] (video lecture).
* von Hippel, E. (2012). [http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=odj5VnTI490 Users Working Together in Communities are Powerful Innovators] (video lecture).
* von Hippel, E. (2005). [http://web.mit.edu/evhippel/www/democ1.htm Democratizing innovation]. MIT Press.

=== Week 8: Profit (05.19, 05.21) ===

==== Lectures ====
# A withering critique of contemporary information capitalism
# Whither alternatives? 

==== Assignments ====
* [https://canvas.northwestern.edu/courses/229769/modules/items/3447821 Week 8 Discussion Prompts]
* Mary Gray and Siddharth Suri. 2019. ''Ghost Work''. Read Introduction and Chapter 1 for Monday; Chapters 3 and 6 for Wednesday (And if you like the book, any other chapters and the Conclusion are optional). (Selections [https://canvas.northwestern.edu/courses/229769/modules/items/3447803 Available via Canvas] or [https://archive.org/details/mary-l.-gray-siddharth-suri-ghost-work-how-to-stop-silicon-valley-from-building- the Internet Archive])
* (Wednesday) [https://canvas.northwestern.edu/courses/229769/assignments/1558169 Community Advising Report topic proposals] due this week (no later than Wednesday 5/21 at 5pm). (Note: you must submit the proposal in order to receive approval of your final project topic).

==== Additional resources ====
* Davis, Gerald F., and Aseem Sinha. [https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/2631787721995198 Varieties of Uberization: How technology and institutions change the organization (s) of late capitalism]. Organization Theory 2, no. 1 (2021): 2631787721995198.
* Juliet B. Schor and Manuel Vallas. 2020. The sharing economy: Rhetoric and reality. Annual Review of Sociology. 
* Juliet B. Schor. 2020. After the gig: How the sharing economy got hijacked and how to win it back. University of California Press.
* Abhishek Nagaraj and Henning Piezunka. 2020 (unpublished ms). [https://abhishekn.com/files/openstreetmap_google_feb2020.pdf How Competition Affects Contributions to Open Source Platforms: Evidence from OpenStreetMap and Google Maps].
* Nathan Schneider. 2018. [https://doi.org/10.1177/0038026118758533 An internet of ownership: Democratic design for the online economy]. The Sociological Review 66, no. 2 (March 2018): 320–40. https://doi.org/10.1177/0038026118758533
* Shoshanna Zuboff. 2019. The Age of Surveillance Capitalism.

=== Week 9: AI (05.28) ===

==== Lectures ====
# The ubiquity of bots, algorithms, and machine intelligence in online communities
# FATE, disintermediation, collapse, and other horizons of AI

==== Assignments ====
* Week 9 Discussion Prompts
* R Maria del Rio-Chanona, Nadzeya Laurentsyeva, Johannes Wachs, [https://academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/article/3/9/pgae400/7754871 Large language models reduce public knowledge sharing on online Q&A platforms]. ''PNAS Nexus'', Volume 3, Issue 9, September 2024, pgae400, https://doi.org/10.1093/pnasnexus/pgae400. ['''Note:''' focus on the substance of the Introduction, Results, and Discussion sections (don't worry about understanding the methods).] 
* Simpson, Ellen and Bryan Semaan. 2021. [https://canvas.northwestern.edu/courses/229769/modules/items/3451482 For You, or For"You"? Everyday LGBTQ+ Encounters with TikTok]. Proc. ACM Hum.-Comput. Interact. 4, CSCW3, Article 252 (December 2020), 34 pages. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1145/3432951

==== Additional resources ====
* DeVito, Michael Ann . 2021. Adaptive Folk Theorization as a Path to Algorithmic Literacy on Changing Platforms. In Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, Vol. 5, CSCW2, Article 339 (October 2021), 35 pages, [https://doi.org/10.1145/3476080 https://doi.org/10.1145/3476080].
* Geiger, R. Stuart (2014). Bots, bespoke, code and the materiality of software platforms. Information, Communication & Society. DOI:10.1080/1369118X.2013.873069 ([https://escholarship.org/content/qt6xc0m98k/qt6xc0m98k.pdf preprint version])
* Massanari, Adrienne. "[https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1461444815608807 #Gamergate and The Fappening: How Reddit’s algorithm, governance, and culture support toxic technocultures]." New media & society 19, no. 3 (2017): 329-346.

=== Week 10: The Future (06.02, 06.04) ===

==== Lectures ====
# The future of online communities & crowds

==== Assignments ====
* Final project lightning talks + feedback this week.
* Work on your Community Advising Reports.

=== Final project: Community Advising Reports due June 10, 5pm ===