Editing Building Successful Online Communities (Fall 2016) (section)

=== October 24: Rules and Governance ===

'''Resources:'''

* [https://canvas.uw.edu/files/38448386/download?download_frd=1 Week 4 Reading Note] (Requires UW Access)
* Lecture Slides [https://canvas.uw.edu/files/38575618/download?download_frd=1 Part I] and [https://canvas.uw.edu/files/38575625/download?download_frd=1 Part II] (Requires UW Access)

'''Required Readings:'''

* BSOC, Chapter 4, pg 125-170

Our first case will involve a comparison of Codes of Conduct:

* [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.)

Our second case will talk about Slashdot:

* [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://slashdot.org/faq/mod-metamod.shtml Slashdot Moderation FAQ], 2014
* [Case] Lampe, Cliff, and Paul Resnick. (2004) 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 Press. [[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:'''

* Reagle, J. (2016). [https://doi.org/10.1177/1461444814545840 the obligation to know: From FAQ to Feminism 101]. ''New Media & Society'', 18(5), 691–707. [Available through UW libraries]