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

=== November 7: Creating New Communities ===

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'''Required Readings:'''

* BSOC, Chapter 6, pg 231-276
* Hill, Benjamin Mako. [http://mako.cc/academic/hill-almost_wikipedia-DRAFT.pdf Almost Wikipedia], 2013.

Our first case will about a website called Area 51 on a platform called Stack Exchange:

* [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]

Our second case will be about a system called Snowdrift:

* [Case] Snowdrift.coop: Read at least the [https://snowdrift.coop/ top page], as well as the [https://snowdrift.coop/about the about page] and the high-level links at the top (i.e., the Illustrated intro, longer explanation, press page, who we are, and FAQ) and poke around on the rest of the site (e.g., the blog, feeds, email lists, etc).

'''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.