Editing Online Communities and Crowds (Spring 2025) (section)

==== Assignments ====
* [https://canvas.northwestern.edu/courses/229769/modules/items/3424786 Week 3 Discussion Prompts]
* Kraut & Resnick. ''Building Successful Online Communities.'' [https://kraut.hciresearch.info/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Kraut10-Contribution-current.pdf Encouraging contributions to online communities (Chapter 2)] (pdf from Kraut's Web site).
* Complete [https://dashboard.wikiedu.org/courses/Northwestern_University/Online_communities_and_crowds_(Spring_2025)/timeline#week-3 Week 3 Wikipedia Assignment exercises]
:;; Useful resources for case study on Twitch (For Wednesday)
* Andrew, Scottie. 2021. [https://www.cnn.com/2021/09/02/tech/twitch-day-off-boycott-racism-cec/index.html  Black and LGBTQ streamers on Twitch boycotted the platform after repeated ‘hate raids’]. CNN. September 2, 2021.
* Broadway, Danielle. 2022. [https://www.allure.com/story/black-twitch-beauty-creators-hate-raids Racist Abuse on Twitch Is Holding Black Beauty Creators Back]. Allure.com. March 11, 2022.
* Clark, Taylor. 2017. [https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/11/20/how-to-get-rich-playing-video-games-online How to Get Rich Playing Video Games Online]. New Yorker, November 13, 2017.
* Hernandez, Patricia. 2018. [https://www.theverge.com/2018/7/16/17569520/twitch-streamers-zero-viewers-motivation-community The Twitch Streamers Who Spend Years Broadcasting to No One]. The Verge. July 16, 2018.
* Grayson, Nathan. 2018. [https://kotaku.com/twitch-partners-feeling-burned-after-affiliates-receive-1826810027 Twitch Partners Feeling Burned After Affiliates Receive Features That Took Them Years To Earn]. Kotaku. June 14, 2018.
* [https://gameonaire.com/differences-between-partner-affiliate-twitch/ The Differences Between Twitch Partner and Affiliate Programs]. 2019. GameOnAire (blog). April 5, 2019.
* [https://help.twitch.tv/s/article/achievements?language=en_US. Achievements]. n.d. Twitch. Accessed January 15, 2022.
<!---:;; Case study on Yelp (For Wednesday)
* Modi, Maulik. 2019. “Yelp — What Happened!!” ''Medium''. December 1, 2019. https://medium.com/@maulikmmodi94/yelp-what-happened-62c325f13235.
* Parikh, Anish A., Carl Behnke, Doug Nelson, Mihaela Vorvoreanu, and Barbara Almanza. 2015. “A Qualitative Assessment of Yelp.Com Users’ Motivations to Submit and Read Restaurant Reviews.” ''Journal of Culinary Science & Technology'' 13 (1): 1–18.
* Stone, Madeline. 2014. “Elite Yelpers Hold Immense Power, and They Get Treated like Kings by Bars and Restaurants Trying to Curry Favor.” ''Business Insider''. August 22, 2014. https://www.businessinsider.com/how-to-become-yelp-elite-2014-8. {{avail-free|https://web.archive.org/web/20140824231420/https://www.businessinsider.com/how-to-become-yelp-elite-2014-8}}
* Ha, Anthony. 2017. “Yelp Launches New Feature for Asking and Answering Questions about Any Business.” ''TechCrunch'' (blog). February 14, 2017. https://techcrunch.com/2017/02/14/yelp-q-and-a/.
* Noble, Safiya Umoja. 2018. “Algorithms and Invisibility: My Interview with Kandis.” In ''Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism'', Illustrated edition, 172–79. New York: NYU Press.--->

===== Additional resources =====
* Buechley, L. and Hill, B. M. 2010. [https://mako.cc/academic/buechley_hill_DIS_10.pdf LilyPad in the wild: How hardware's long tail is supporting new engineering and design communities]. Proceedings of the ACM Designing Interactive Systems (DIS) Conference.
* Catherine Han, Joseph Seering, Deepak Kumar, Jeffrey T. Hancock, and Zakir Durumeric. 2023. [https://doi.org/10.1145/3579609 Hate Raids on Twitch: Echoes of the Past, New Modalities, and Implications for Platform Governance]. Proc. ACM Hum.-Comput. Interact. 7, CSCW1, Article 133 (April 2023), 28 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3579609.
* Herskowitz, Matthew. 2024. “Meet One of the Most Prolific People on Yelp.” Eater. July 18, 2024. https://www.eater.com/24200490/yelp-elite-frequent-reviewer-interviewer.
* Kelty, Christopher, M. 2017. [https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/pdfplus/10.1086/688705 Too Much Democracy in All the Wrong Places: Toward a Grammar of Participation]. Current Anthropology 2017 58:S15, S77-S90 
* Kelty, C. and Erickson, S. 2018. [https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01972243.2018.1463046 Two modes of participation: A conceptual analysis of 102 cases of Internet and social media participation from 2005–2015]. The Information Society, 34(2): 71–87.
* van de Rijt et al. 2014. [https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1316836111 Field experiments of success-breeds-success dynamics]. Proceedings of the National Academies of Sciences (PNAS).
* Dunbar-Hester, Christina. 2020. Hacking diversity: The politics of inclusion in open technology cultures. ([https://canvas.northwestern.edu/files/12898596/download?download_frd=1 Chapters 1, 7, 8])