Editing Online Communities (UW COM481 Spring 2024) (section)

==== Final Projects: Critical Analysis of Online Community ====
;Final (Virtual) Presentation Date: May 28
;Virtual Critique Date: May 30
;Paper Due Date: Jun 3 @ 11:59pm
;Maximum paper length: 2,500 words
;Deliverables: 
:*Details on final presentations including due dates, instructions, and dropboxes are on [[/Final presentations]]
:*Turn in copy of paper [https://canvas.uw.edu/courses/1734931 in Canvas]

For your final project, I expect students to build on the community identification assignment to describe what they have done and what they have found. I'll expect every student to give both:

* A final presentation (see instructions on  [[/Final presentations]])
* A final report that is not more than 2,500 words.

Each project should include: (a) the description of the community you have identified (you are welcome to borrow from your Community Identification assignment), (b) a description of how you would use the course concepts to change and improve the community.

You will be evaluated on the degree to which you have demonstrated that you understand and have engaged with the course material and not on specifics of your community. I want you to reflect on what parts of theory we covered apply or do not. What does the community do right according to what you've learned? What might it do differently in the future based on what you've read? What did the course and readings not teach that they should have? 

Your audience is people who are interested in the community as well as the general public. A successful project will tell a compelling story and will engage with, and improve upon, the course material to teach all of us -- that is, an audience that includes me, your classmates, and students taking this class in future years, how to take advantage of online communities more effectively. The very best papers will give us all a new understanding of some aspect of course material and change the way I teach some portion of this course in the future.