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== Schedule == === October 1 (Thu): Intro and Wikipedia === '''Resources:''' * [https://canvas.uw.edu/files/32833115/download?download_frd=1 Lecture Slides] (Requires UW Access) '''Goals for the day:''' * Learn each others' names * Review the course objectives and requirements * Get started with Wikipedia '''Assignment:''' * Come to class with an mnemonic linking your name with something interesting about yourself you want to share. For instance, use statistics every day in my research so for me it will be: ''Mako the Mathematician'' === October 6 (Tue): Motivation === '''Resources:''' * [https://canvas.uw.edu/files/32837882/download?download_frd=1 Week 2 Reading Note] (Requires UW Access) * [https://canvas.uw.edu/files/32922899/download?download_frd=1 Lecture Slides] (Requires UW Access) '''Required Reading:''' * BSOC, Chapter 2, pg 21-40 * [Case] [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WQR0gx0QBZ4 TED Talk by Jimmy Wales on "How a ragtag band created Wikipedia"] * [Case] [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:The_Wikipedia_Adventure The Wikipedia Adventure] (read the whole page and play the game for half an hour or so) '''Optional Reading:''' * BSOC, Chapter 1, pg 1-17 === October 8 (Thu): Motivation === '''Resources:''' * [https://canvas.uw.edu/files/32837882/download?download_frd=1 Week 2 Reading Note] (Requires UW Access) * [https://canvas.uw.edu/files/32923083/download?download_frd=1 Lecture Slides] (Requires UW Access) '''Required Readings:''' * BSOC, Chapter 2, pg 41-70 * [Case] The Gratipay website's [https://gratipay.com/about/ About Page], [https://gratipay.com/about/features/ Features], [https://gratipay.com/about/features/payments Payments], [https://gratipay.com/about/features/payroll Payroll] The Gratipay system has changed a little bit over time. Try to understand what you can and we'll work the details out in class. * [Case] David Heinemeier Hansson's article on [http://david.heinemeierhansson.com/2013/the-perils-of-mixing-open-source-and-money.html "The perils of mixing open source and money"] * [Case] Chad Whitacre's article on [https://medium.com/inside-gratipay/resentment-2c621dbd7541 "Resentment"] '''Optional:''' * [Case] Mike Linksvayer's article on [http://gondwanaland.com/mlog/2007/01/02/wikipedia-advertising/ "I support advertising on Wikipedia"] === October 13 (Tue): Commitment === '''Resources:''' * [https://canvas.uw.edu/files/32955372/download?download_frd=1 Week 3 Reading Note] (Requires UW Access) * [https://canvas.uw.edu/files/33009713/download?download_frd=1 Lecture Slides] (Requires UW Access) '''Required Readings:''' * BSOC, Chapter 3, pg 77-102 In some of these cases, there is an enormous amount of material on this page and its subpages. Poke around for 10 minutes or so on each one until you get a strong sense for who is participating and how and why people build commitment to the site and are comfortable talking about this in class: * [Case] [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Military_history WikiProject Military History] ([https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/wikimania2014/c/c1/WikiProject_Military_history_Leaflet_front_copy.png Flyer]) * [Case] [https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiWomen%27s_Collaborative WikiWomen's Collaborative] ([https://www.facebook.com/WikiWomensCollaborative Facebook Page], [https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/wikimania2014/c/ce/Wikiwomen%27s_Collaborative_Leaflet_front_copy.png Flyer]) * [Case] [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_South_Africa WikiProject South Africa] ([https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/wikimania2014/2/25/Wikiproject_South_Africa_front_copy.png Flyer]) * [Case] [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Guild_of_Copy_Editors Guild of Copyeditors] ([https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/wikimania2014/e/e8/WikiProject_Guild_of_Copy_Editors_Leaflet_front_copy.png Flyer]) * [Case] [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Department_of_Fun Wikipedia Department of Fun] === October 15 (Thu): Commitment === '''Resources:''' * [https://canvas.uw.edu/files/32955372/download?download_frd=1 Week 3 Reading Note] (Requires UW Access) <!-- * Lecture Slides (Requires UW Access) --> '''Required Readings:''' * BSOC, Chapter 3, pg 102-115 * [Case] Brittany Darwell, 2012, [http://www.insidefacebook.com/2012/08/09/facebook-platform-policy-now-cleary-bans-exporting-user-data-to-competing-social-networks/ Facebook policy now clearly bans exporting user data to competing social networks] * [Case] Ryan Singel, 2011, [http://www.wired.com/2011/06/google-facebook-export/ Taking on Facebook, Google’s social network allows data exporting business], Wired * [Case] Benjamin Mako Hill, 2012, [http://mako.cc/copyrighteous/why-facebooks-network-effects-are-overrated Why Facebook’s Network Effects are Overrated] === October 20 (Tue): Rules and Governance === '''Resources:''' * [https://canvas.uw.edu/files/33057102/download?download_frd=1 Week 4 Reading Note] (Requires UW Access) * [https://canvas.uw.edu/files/33178727/download?download_frd=1 Lecture Slides] (Requires UW Access) '''Required Readings:''' * BSOC, Chapter 4, pg 125-140 * [Case] [http://www.ubuntu.com/about/about-ubuntu/conduct Ubuntu Code of Conduct] * [Case] [https://wiki.gnome.org/action/show/Foundation/CodeOfConduct GNOME Code of Conduct] * [Case] [http://geekfeminism.org/about/code-of-conduct/ Geek Feminism Code of Conduct] * [Case] Valerie Aurora's essay on [https://adainitiative.org/2014/02/howto-design-a-code-of-conduct-for-your-community/ HOWTO design a code of conduct for your community], Ada Initiative (For context, you should know that Aurora is one of the authors of the the Geek Feminism code.) === October 22 (Thu): Rules and Governance === '''Resources:''' * [https://canvas.uw.edu/files/33057102/download?download_frd=1 Week 4 Reading Note] (Requires UW Access) * [https://canvas.uw.edu/files/33178749/download?download_frd=1 Lecture Slides] (Requires UW Access) '''Required Readings:''' * BSOC, Chapter 4, pg 140-170 * [Case] [http://slashdot.org/ Slashdot]: Spend 5-10 minutes to visit the homepage, look at a story you think is interesting, and read several of the comments, paying specific attention to the rating system. * [Case] [http://beta.slashdot.org/faq/mod-metamod.shtml Slashdot Moderation FAQ], 2014 * [Case] Lampe, Cliff, and Paul Resnick. “Slash(Dot) and Burn: Distributed Moderation in a Large Online Conversation Space.” In Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 543–50. CHI ’04. New York, NY, USA: ACM, 2004. doi:10.1145/985692.985761. [[http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=985761 Official Link (available through UW libraries)]] [[http://presnick.people.si.umich.edu/papers/chi04/LampeResnick.pdf Author Website (available for free)]] '''Optional Readings:''' * [Case] Know Your Meme, 2014, [http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/rules-of-the-internet Rules of the Internet] === October 27 (Tue): Newcomers === '''Resources:''' * [https://canvas.uw.edu/files/33204788/download?download_frd=1 Week 5 Reading Note] (Requires UW Access) * [https://canvas.uw.edu/files/33263514/download?download_frd=1 Lecture Slides Part I] and [https://canvas.uw.edu/files/33263536/download?download_frd=1 Part 2] (Requires UW Access) '''Required Readings:''' * BSOC, Chapter 5, pg 179-205 * [Case] [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freenet Freenet article on Wikipedia] * [Case] von Krogh, Georg, Sebastian Spaeth, and Karim R. Lakhani. “Community, Joining, and Specialization in Open Source Software Innovation: A Case Study.” Research Policy 32, no. 7 (July 2003): 1217–41. doi:10.1016/S0048-7333(03)00050-7. [[http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0048733303000507 Official Link (Available through UW libraries)]] [[http://www.ee.oulu.fi/~vassilis/courses/socialweb10F/reading_material/3/krogh03-CommunityJoiningSpecializaitonInOpenSource.pdf Preprint Link (Free Online)]] '''Optional Readings:''' * Huang, Shih-Wen, Minhyang (Mia) Suh, Benjamin Mako Hill, Gary Hsieh. (2015) “How Activists are Both Born and Made: An Analysis of Users on Change.org.” In Proceedings of the Conference on Computer Human Interaction (CHI 2015). ACM Press. [[https://mako.cc/academic/huang_suh_hill_hsieh-changeorg_born_made-CHI2015-preprint.pdf Preprint Link (Free Online)]] [[https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2702559 Official Link (Available through UW libraries)]] * Shaw, Aaron, and Benjamin Mako Hill. (2014) “Laboratories of Oligarchy? How the Iron Law Extends to Peer Production: Laboratories of Oligarchy.” Journal of Communication 64, no. 2 (April 2014): 215–38. doi:10.1111/jcom.12082. [[http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jcom.12082/full Official Link (Available through UW Libraries)] [[https://mako.cc/academic/shaw_hill-laboratories_of_oligarchy-DRAFT.pdf Preprint Link (Free Online)]] === October 29 (Thu): Newcomers === '''Resources:''' * [https://canvas.uw.edu/files/33204788/download?download_frd=1 Week 5 Reading Note] (Requires UWs Access) * [https://canvas.uw.edu/files/33322441/download?download_frd=1 Slides from Jonathan Morgan] (Requires UW Access) Today we'll be visited by [https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/User:Jtmorgan Jonathan Morgan], an expert on newcomers in Wikipedia, a PhD graduate from UW, currently an employee of the Wikimedia Foundation, and the first author of the paper we'll be reading as our case today. I will be out of town today so the content of the class will be left up to Jonathan. '''Required Readings:''' * BSOC, Chapter 5, pg 205-223 * [Case] Morgan et al., "Tea and sympathy: crafting positive new user experiences on Wikipedia" Proceedings of the 2013 conference on Computer supported cooperative work (CSCW '13), Pages 839-848, ACM New York, NY, USA, 2013. [[http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2441871 Official Link (Available through UW libraries)]] [[http://jtmorgan.net/jtmorgan/files/morgan_cscw2013_final.pdf Author's Website (Free Online)]] * [Case] Visit '''the Teahouse'' on Wikipedia. In particular, spend time on these three pages and associated sub-questions: ** [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Teahouse/Questions Teahouse questions forum]: What do the questions here tell you about the kinds of challenges that new editors face? How does this jibe with your own experience as a new Wikipedian? ** [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Teahouse/Hosts Teahouse host profiles]: What do the profiles on this page tell you about the demographics and motivations of Teahouse Hosts? Does anything about the Teahouse host characteristics and motivations you read in these profiles surprise you? Why or why not? ** [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Teahouse/Guests Teahouse guest profiles] and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Teahouse/Guest_book Guest book]: What do the profiles on this page tell you about the demographics and motivations of Teahouse visitors? Does anything about the Teahouse guest characteristics and motivations you read in these profiles surprise you? Why or why not? === November 3 (Tue): Creating New Communities === '''Resources:''' * [https://canvas.uw.edu/files/33342687/download?download_frd=1 Week 6 Reading Note] (Requires UW Access) * [https://canvas.uw.edu/files/33429780/download?download_frd=1 Lecture Slides] (Requires UW Access) '''Required Readings:''' * BSOC, Chapter 6, pg 231-248 * [Case] [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stack_Exchange Stack Exchange article on Wikipedia] and [https://stackexchange.com/sites list of sites] * [Case] [https://area51.stackexchange.com/ Area 51] (Click through and explore 5-6 proposals at different stages) * [Case] [https://area51.stackexchange.com/faq Area 51 FAQ] === November 5 (Thu): Creating New Communities === '''Resources:''' * [https://canvas.uw.edu/files/33342687/download?download_frd=1 Week 6 Reading Note] (Requires UW Access) * [https://canvas.uw.edu/files/33429801/download?download_frd=1 Lecture Slides] (Requires UW Access) '''Required Readings:''' * BSOC, Chapter 6, pg 248-276 * Hill, Benjamin Mako. [http://mako.cc/academic/hill-almost_wikipedia-DRAFT.pdf Almost Wikipedia], 2013. * [Case] Snowdrift.coop: Read at least the [https://snowdrift.coop/ top page], [https://snowdrift.coop/p/snowdrift/w/about about page], [https://snowdrift.coop/p/snowdrift/w/mission mission], [https://snowdrift.coop/p/snowdrift/w/faq FAQ], [https://snowdrift.coop/p/snowdrift/w/how-to-help "How to Help" page], and [https://snowdrift.coop/p/snowdrift/w/next next steps page] and poke around on the rest of the site. '''Optional Readings:''' * Bilton, Nick. “[http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/13/magazine/all-is-fair-in-love-and-twitter.html?pagewanted=all All Is Fair in Love and Twitter].” The New York Times, October 9, 2013, sec. Magazine. === November 10 (Tue): Wikipedia Assignment Debrief === '''Resources:''' * [https://canvas.uw.edu/files/33451334/download?download_frd=1 Week 7 Reading Note] (Requires UW Access) '''No required readings.''' Please be prepared to give a very short (~1 minute ) in-class presentation about your Wikipedia editing experience. In the second half of class, we will have a visit from local Wikipedia group [https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Cascadia_Wikimedians Cascadia Wikimedians] (full disclosure, I am a member). Prepare questions for them about your experience or about Wikipedia in general based on the readings and cases we've done so far. === November 12 (Thu): Historical Communities === '''Resources:''' * [https://canvas.uw.edu/files/33451334/download?download_frd=1 Week 7 Reading Note] (Requires UW Access) * [https://canvas.uw.edu/files/33600355/download?download_frd=1 Lecture Slides] (Requires UW Access) '''Required Readings:''' * [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulletin_board_system Bulletin board system article on Wikipedia]. * [Case] Hafner, K. (1997). [http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/5.05/ff_well_pr.html The epic saga of the WELL]. * [Case] Turner, F. (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]. '''Optional Readings:''' * Hauben, Michael, Ronda Hauben, and Thomas Truscott. (1997) Netizens: On the History and Impact of Usenet and the Internet. Los Alamitos, Calif: Wiley-IEEE Computer Society Press. [[http://pear.accc.uic.edu/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/608/529 Chapter 2] and [http://pear.accc.uic.edu/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/609/530 Chapter 3]] '''Optional Video:''' * Stanford 2011 symposium: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5kQYWLtW3Y From Counterculture to Cyberculture: the Legacy of the Whole Earth Catalog] === November 17 (Tue): Free Software === '''Resources:''' * [https://canvas.uw.edu/files/33600343/download?download_frd=1 Week 8 Reading Note] (Requires UW Access) * [https://canvas.uw.edu/courses/987817/files/33628104/download?wrap=1 Lecture Slides] (Requires UW Access) '''Required Readings:''' * Fogel, K. (2009). [http://producingoss.com/en/introduction.html Producing Open Source Software]. Introduction - includes "History" & "The Situation Today." * [Case] Stallman, R. (1984). [https://www.gnu.org/gnu/manifesto.html The GNU manifesto]. * [Case] Stallman, R. (1989). [https://gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/gpl-1.0.html The GNU general public license, version 1]. * Debian (1997). [http://www.debian.org/social_contract.1.0 Debian social contract, version 1.0]. * [Case] Raymond, E. S. (2001). [http://www.catb.org/esr/writings/cathedral-bazaar/cathedral-bazaar/ The Cathedral & the Bazaar]. (The web-based version of this essay is split over many pages. Just keep clicking next until you get to the end.) === November 19 (Thu): Innovation Communities === '''Resources:''' * [https://canvas.uw.edu/files/33600343/download?download_frd=1 Week 8 Reading Note] (Requires UW Access) * [https://canvas.uw.edu/courses/987817/files/33724703/download?wrap=1 Lecture Slides] (Requires UW Access) '''Required Readings:''' * von Hippel, E. (2005). [http://web.mit.edu/evhippel/www/democ1.htm Democratizing innovation]. Read Chapters 1, 2 & 5. === November 24 (Tue): Hackers === '''Required Readings:''' * Rosenbaum. (1971). [http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/the_spectator/2011/10/the_article_that_inspired_steve_jobs_secrets_of_the_little_blue_.single.html Secrets of the Little Blue Box] (This article was reprinted in Slate in 2011. There's also [http://www.historyofphonephreaking.org/docs/rosenbaum1971.pdf a very large PDF scan] of the original Esquire Magazine article which includes the original NSFW and offensive magazine cover image.) * Larkin. (2004). [http://www.wcas.northwestern.edu/projects/globalization/secure/articles/16.2larkin.pdf Degraded images, distorted sounds: Nigerian video and the infrastructure of piracy]. * [Case] Wayner, Peter. “Tweaking a Camera to Suit a Hobby.” The New York Times, May 26, 2010, sec. Technology / Personal Tech. [http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/27/technology/personaltech/27basics.html Free Online] '''Optional Readings:''' * Mollick, Ethan. “Tapping into the Underground.” MIT Sloan Management Review 46, no. 4 (2005): 21. [[http://sloanreview.mit.edu/article/tapping-into-the-underground/ Available through UW Libraries]] * Mollick, Ethan. “The Engine of the Underground: The Elite-Kiddie Divide.” SIGGROUP Bull. 25, no. 2 (2005): 23–27. [[http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1067721.1067726 Available through UW Libraries]] * Scacchi, Walt. “Computer Game Mods, Modders, Modding, and the Mod Scene.” First Monday 15, no. 5 (2010). [[http://firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/2965 Free Online]] === November 26 (Thu): NO CLASS (Thanksgiving) === === December 1 (Tue): Creative Collaboration === '''Required Readings:''' * Lessig, Lawrence. Remix: Making Art and Commerce Thrive in the Hybrid Economy. Penguin Press HC, 2008. (Introduction) [[https://archive.org/stream/LawrenceLessigRemix/Remix-o.txt Free Online]] * [Case] Hill, Benjamin Mako, and Andrés Monroy-Hernández. “The Remixing Dilemma The Trade-Off Between Generativity and Originality.” American Behavioral Scientist 57, no. 5 (May 1, 2013): 643–663. [[http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0002764212469359 Available through UW Libraries]] [[http://mako.cc/academic/hill_monroy-remixing_dilemma-DRAFT. Free Preprint]] * [Case] Buechley, Leah, and Benjamin Mako Hill. Lilly Pad in the Wild: How Hardwareʼs Long Tail is Supporting New Engineering and Design Communities, DIS 2010. [[http://mako.cc/academic/buechley_hill_DIS_10.pdf Free Preprint]] * [Case] [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L4a89n4ZJ5w Examples of Lilypad Projects] (Youtube Video) '''Optional Readings:''' * Sinnreich, Aram. Mashed Up: Music, Technology, and the Rise of Configurable Culture. University of Massachusetts Press, 2010. (Excerpts) [Forthcoming in Canvas] * Vaidhyanathan, Siva. Copyrights and Copywrongs: The Rise of Intellectual Property and How It Threatens Creativity. New York: New York University Press, 2001. [Available from Instructor] === December 3 (Thu): Civic Media === Guest Lecture from [http://www.andresmh.com/ Andrés Monroy-Hernández] who is a researcher at Microsoft Research. Details on his talk will be confirmed. '''Required Readings:''' * Castells, M. (2007). Communication, Power and Counter-power in the Network Society. International Journal of Communication, 1(1), 29. [[http://ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc/article/view/46/35 Freely Available Online]] * Monroy-Hernández, A., boyd, danah, Kiciman, E., De Choudhury, M., & Counts, S. (2013). The New War Correspondents: The Rise of Civic Media Curation in Urban Warfare. In Proceedings of the 2013 Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work (pp. 1443–1452). New York, NY, USA: ACM. [[https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2441938 Official Link (Available through UW Libraries]] [[http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/people/amh/cscw2013-civic-media-warfare.pdf Freely Available Online]] * Hu, Y., Farnham, S. D., & Monroy-Hernández, A. (2013). Whoo.Ly: Facilitating Information Seeking for Hyperlocal Communities Using Social Media. In Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (pp. 3481–3490). New York, NY, USA: ACM. [[https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2466478 Official Link (Available through UW Libraries]] [[http://research.microsoft.com/pubs/192107/whooly.pdf Freely Available Online]] === December 8 (Tue): Final Presentations === '''Resources:''' * [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Wiki_Ed/University_of_Washington/Interpersonal_Media_%28%29 Presentation Sign-up/Schedule] * [https://canvas.uw.edu/courses/987817/assignments/2953943 Presentation Slides Dropbox in Canvas] — Slides are optional but recommended and are due by '''1:30pm before class'''. If you turn in your slides after 1:30pm, I will not have time to put them into the line-up for class. '''No readings.''' The final classes will be devoted entirely to presentations. === December 10 (Thu): Final Presentations === * [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Wiki_Ed/University_of_Washington/Interpersonal_Media_%28%29 Presentation Sign-up/Schedule] * [https://canvas.uw.edu/courses/987817/assignments/2953943 Presentation Slides Dropbox in Canvas] — Slides are optional but recommended and are due by '''1:30pm before class'''. If you turn in your slides after 1:30pm, I will not have time to put them into the line-up for class. '''No readings.''' The final classes will be devoted entirely to presentations.
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