Editing Interpersonal Media (Winter 2019) (section)

== Schedule ==
=== January 8 (Tue): Intro and Wikipedia ===

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'''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, I like skiing so for me it will be: ''Nate the Nordic.''

=== January 10 (Thu): Motivation ===

'''Resources:'''

* [https://canvas.uw.edu/files/53227497/download?download_frd=1 Reading Note] (Requires UW Access)
* [https://canvas.uw.edu/files/53227511/download?download_frd=1 Lecture Slides] (Requires UW Access)

'''Required Reading:'''

* BSOC, Chapter 2, pg 21-40 (Sections 1-3)
* [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] 
* [Case] [https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/The_Wikipedia_Adventure/Final The Wikipedia Adventure Analysis]

(read the whole page and play the game for half an hour or so)

'''Optional Reading:'''

* BSOC, Chapter 1, pg 1-17 
* Sneha Narayan, Jake Orlowitz, Jonathan Morgan, Benjamin Mako Hill, and Aaron Shaw. 2017. 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). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 1785-1799. [https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2998307 A research paper about the Wikipedia Adventure, authored by members of my research group]

=== January 15 (Tue): Motivation ===

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'''Required Readings:'''

* BSOC, Chapter 2, pg 41-70 (Sections 4-7)
* [Case] Liberapay's website's [https://liberapay.com/about/ About Page],  [https://liberapay.com/about/faq FAQ], [https://liberapay.com/about/teams About Teams], [https://liberapay.com/about/stats stats], [https://web.archive.org/web/20150908045713/https://gratipay.com/about/features/payroll Payroll]. The Librepay system succeeds [https://web.archive.org/web/20150908051726/https://gratipay.com/  Gratipay], which itself succeeded another similar system called Gittip.  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"]

=== January 17 (Thu): Commitment ===

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* [https://canvas.uw.edu/files/53353742/download?download_frd=1 Week 3 Reading Note] (Requires UW Access)
* [https://canvas.uw.edu/files/53519317/download?download_frd=1 Lecture Slides] (Requires UW Access)

'''Required Readings:'''

* BSOC, Chapter 3, pg 77-102 (Section 1)

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]

=== January 22 (Tue): Commitment ===

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* [https://canvas.uw.edu/files/53519321/download?download_frd=1 Lecture Slides (Requires UW Access)]

'''Required Readings:'''

* BSOC, Chapter 3, pg 102-115 (Sections 2 - 4)
* [Case] Sangeet Choudary, 2014 [https://www.wired.com/insights/2014/03/reverse-network-effects-todays-social-networks-can-fail-grow-larger/  What is a ''Network Effect'' and how can one fail?]
* [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]

=== January 24 (Thu): Rules and Governance ===

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'''Required Readings:'''

* BSOC, Chapter 4, pg 125-140 (Sections 1-3)
* [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.)

=== January 29 (Tue): Rules and Governance ===

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'''Required Readings:'''

* BSOC, Chapter 4, pg 140-170 (Sections 4-5)
* [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] [https://web.archive.org/web/20170505192310/https://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]

* J. Nathan Matias. 2016. Going Dark: Social Factors in Collective Action Against Platform Operators in the Reddit Blackout. In Proceedings of the 2016 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '16). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 1138-1151.  [[https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2858391 Official Link (available through UW libraries)]] [[https://natematias.com/media/GoingDark-Matias-2016.pdf (available through Author's website]]

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=== January 31 (Thu): Newcomers ===

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'''Required Readings:'''

* BSOC, Chapter 5, pg 179-205 (Sections 1-2)
We're going to look at the citizen science community [[:wikipedia:Zooniverse|Zooniverse]] and the project "Planet Hunters" in particular. We're going to talk about how the community might deal with (not so hypothetical!) major influx of new users:

* [Case] Visit [https://www.zooniverse.org/ Zooniverse] and create an account. Then visit the [http://www.planethunters.org/ Planet Hunters website] and log in with your account. Spent 10-15 minutes on the site figure out how it work and doing a few tasks. 
* [Case] Mugar, G., Østerlund, C., Hassman, K. D., Crowston, K., & Jackson, C. B. (2014). [https://doi.org/10.1145/2531602.2531721 Planet Hunters and Seafloor Explorers: Legitimate Peripheral Participation Through Practice Proxies in Online Citizen Science.] In Proceedings of the 17th ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work & Social Computing (pp. 109–119). New York, NY, USA: ACM. ''[Available through UW libraries]''
* [Case] Kiene, C., Monroy-Hernández, A., & Hill, B. M. (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 (pp. 1152–1156). New York, NY, USA: ACM. 

'''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)]]

=== February 5 (Tue): Newcomers ===

'''Class cancelled due to ice'''

=== February 7 (Thu): Creating New Communities ===

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'''Required Readings:'''

* BSOC, Chapter 6, pg 231-248 (Sections 1-2)
* [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]

=== February 12 (Tue): Creating New Communities ===

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'''Required Readings:'''

* BSOC, Chapter 6, pg 248-276 (Sections 3-4)
* 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/how-it-works how it works], [https://wiki.snowdrift.coop/about/intro the original intro], [https://snowdrift.coop/p/snowdrift/w/mission mission], [https://snowdrift.coop/about/faq FAQ], [https://snowdrift.coop/p/snowdrift/w/how-to-help "How to Help" page], and [https://wiki.snowdrift.coop/archives/project-management/mvp-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.

=== February 14 (Thu): Newcomers revisited and Wikipedia Assignment Debrief  ===

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In the first half of today's class we'll be visited by [https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/User:Jtmorgan Jonathan Morgan], an expert on newcomers to 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. 

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 to give a very short (~1 minute ) in-class presentation about your Wikipedia editing experience and also be ready with questions for them about your experience or about Wikipedia in general based on the readings and cases we've done so far.


'''Required Readings:'''

* BSOC, Chapter 5, pg 205-223 (Sections 3-6)
* [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. [[https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2441871 Official Link (Available through UW libraries)]] [[http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.307.1301&rep=rep1&type=pdf (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?

'''Optional Readings:'''
* Halfaker, A., Stuart Geiger, R., Morgan, J. T., & Riedl, J. (2013). The Rise and Decline of an Open Collaboration System: How Wikipedia’s Reaction to Popularity Is Causing Its Decline. American Behavioral Scientist, 57(5), 664–688. [[https://doi.org/10.1177/0002764212469365 (Access through UW libraries)]] [[http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/0002764212469365 (Open Access)]]
* Nathan TeBlunthuis, Aaron Shaw, and Benjamin Mako Hill. 2018. Revisiting "The Rise and Decline" in a Population of Peer Production Projects. In Proceedings of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '18). ACM, New York, NY, USA, Paper 355, 7 pages. [[https://doi.org/10.1145/3173574.3173929 (Open Access)]]
* Jonathan T. Morgan and Aaron Halfaker. 2018. Evaluating the impact of the Wikipedia Teahouse on newcomer socialization and retention. In Proceedings of the 14th International Symposium on Open Collaboration (OpenSym '18). ACM, New York, NY, USA, Article 20, 7 pages. https://www.opensym.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/OpenSym2018_paper_15-1.pdf

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=== February 19 (Tue): Social Computing Systems ===

We have a special guest this week: [http://www.andresmh.com/ Andrés Monroy-Hernandez!] Andrés was previously at Microsoft Research and is currently a lead research scientist at Snap Inc., the maker of Snapchat.  Andrés has research interests ranging from civic communities to educational communities and more recently he is focusing on "social computing systems," which we will learn about today.

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'''Required Readings:'''
* Howe, J. (2006). [https://www.wired.com/2006/06/crowds/ The rise of crowdsourcing]. Wired Magazine, 14(6), 1–4.
* [Case] [https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSMechTurk/latest/RequesterUI/Introduction.html Amazon Mechanical Turk Requester UI Guide]
* [Case] [https://mturkpublic.s3.amazonaws.com/docs/MTURK_BP.pdf Amazon Mechanical Turk Best Practices Guide].


'''Optional Readings:'''

Our guest speaker will be talking about these three papers. It might be good to look these over before class:

* Justin Cranshaw, Emad Elwany, Todd Newman, Rafal Kocielnik, Bowen Yu, Sandeep Soni, Jaime Teevan, and Andrés Monroy-Hernández. 2017. Calendar.help: Designing a Workflow-Based Scheduling Agent with Humans in the Loop. In Proceedings of the 2017 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '17). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 2382-2393. [https://doi.org/10.1145/3025453.3025780 (Open Access)]
* Cranshaw, J., Monroy-Hernández, A., & Needham, S. A. (2016). [https://doi.org/10.1145/2858036.2858573 Journeys & Notes: Designing Social Computing for Non-Places]. In Proceedings of the 2016 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (pp. 4722–4733). New York, NY, USA: ACM. [Available through UW libraries]
* Agapie, E., & Monroy-Hernández, A. (2015). [http://arxiv.org/abs/1507.01300 Eventful: Crowdsourcing Local News Reporting]. arXiv:1507.01300 [Cs].

=== February 21 (Thu): Free Software ===
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'''Required Readings:'''
* Fogel, K. (2009). [http://producingoss.com/en/introduction.html Producing Open Source Software]. Introduction - includes "History" & "The Situation Today." You'll need to press "next" to turn the page once. 
* [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.)

=== February 26 (Tue): Innovation Communities ===

Today we have a special guest: [https://mako.cc Professor Mako]! Mako is my PhD advisor and his PhD advisor was Eric von Hippel, whose book we are reading for today.
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'''Required Readings:'''

* von Hippel, E. (2005). [http://web.mit.edu/evhippel/www/democ1.htm Democratizing innovation]. Read Chapters 1, 2 & 5.
* [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]
* [Case] C.H.D.K. Wiki Take a look at the [Home page https://chdk.fandom.com/wiki/CHDK] and explore the Wiki to get a good idea of what this community is about, what they do, and how it works.

=== February 28 (Thu): Historical Communities ===

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'''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:'''

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<!-- * 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]

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<!-- * 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]] [[https://arxiv.org/pdf/1507.01291 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]] -->

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<!-- * 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] -->

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<!-- * 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]] -->

=== March 5 (Tue): Educational Communities ===

Guest Lecture from [http://www.unmad.in/ Sayamindu Dasgupta] who is a professor at the Information School at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. 

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'''Required Readings:'''

* Roque, R.; Dasgupta, S.; Costanza-Chock, S. Children’s Civic Engagement in the Scratch Online Community. Soc. Sci. 2016, 5, 55. 

[https://www.mdpi.com/2076-0760/5/4/55 Open Access]

* Brennan, K., Monroy‐Hernández, A., & Resnick, M. (2010). Making projects, making friends: Online community as catalyst for interactive media creation. New directions for youth development, 2010(128), 75-83.

[http://web.media.mit.edu/~mres/papers/NDYD-final.pdf PDF From MIT.edu]

* [Case] [https://scratch.mit.edu/ https://scratch.mit.edu]

Visit the site. Read [https://scratch.mit.edu/about the about page], the [https://scratch.mit.edu/parents the information for parents], [https://scratch.mit.edu/educators and for educators]. Watch all the videos.  Spend some time exploring and run some programs (try to find at least one animation and at least one game). 

* [Case] [https://www.blockstud.io/ https://www.blockstud.io/]

For the case we're going to compare scratch to a different: Block Studio. This is an experimental project by Raoul, a PhD student at UW.  Click start and watch the three lessons. You don't have to actually make any games with Block Studio, but do learn how it works as much as you can.  After that [https://www.blockstud.io/bsp/bsp_games/ survey the published projects].

=== March 7 (Thu): Creative Collaboration ===

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'''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]] [[https://mako.cc/academic/hill_monroy-remixing_dilemma-DRAFT.pdf 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]


=== March 12 (Tue): Final Presentations ===

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'''No readings.'''

The final classes will be devoted entirely to presentations.

=== March 14 (Thu): Final Presentations ===

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'''No readings.'''

The final classes will be devoted entirely to presentations.