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

=== April 18 (Thursday): Newcomers I, Zooniverse ===

'''Lectures:'''  (watch ''before'' class)

* [https://uw.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=aa67cd26-b471-43c2-9c4c-b14d0179753e Newcomers Part 1 (1/3): Introduction] [11m53s]
* [https://uw.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=888851d3-83e2-4627-9791-b14d0179a7af Newcomers Part 1 (2/3): Recruitment] [15m09s]
* [https://uw.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=820000bc-e1d2-4e76-a835-b14d0179cdc3 Newcomers Part 1 (3/3): Selection] [14m23s]
'''Resources:'''

* [https://canvas.uw.edu/files/119066287/download?download_frd=1 Reading Note #7] (Requires Canvas access)
* [https://canvas.uw.edu/files/117852075/download?download_frd=1 Lecture Slides] (Requires Canvas access)
* [https://canvas.uw.edu/files/119577970/download?download_frd=1 Case Boards] (Requires Canvas access)
* [https://uw.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=76c78417-39e1-4cc2-a27f-b156011eeae4 Class Video Recording Part 1] (Requires Canvas access)
* [https://uw.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=67e9c87f-3f39-4383-9664-b156012fee75 Class Video Recording Part 2] (Requires Canvas access)



'''Required Readings:'''

*  [[#Component 1: The Theory and Practice of Online Communities|BSOC]], Chapter 5, pg 179-205 (Sections 1-2)
We're going to look at the citizen science community [[:wikipedia:Zooniverse|Zooniverse]]:
* [Case] Visit [https://www.zooniverse.org/ Zooniverse] and create an account. Then visit the [https://www.zooniverse.org/projects Zooniverse project website] and pick a project that interests you. Spend 10-15 minutes on the site figure out how it works and make sure you both do a few tasks and look at the "Talk" or discussion and commenting features of each site. 
* [Case] Mugar, Gabriel, Carsten Østerlund, Katie DeVries Hassman, Kevin Crowston, and Corey Brian Jackson. 2014. “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, 109–119. CSCW ’14. Baltimore, Maryland, USA: Association for Computing Machinery. https://doi.org/10.1145/2531602.2531721. {{avail-uw|https://doi.org/10.1145/2531602.2531721}} {{avail-free|https://crowston.syr.edu/sites/crowston.syr.edu/files/paper_revised%20copy%20to%20post.pdf}}

'''Optional Readings:'''

* Huang, Shih-Wen, Minhyang (Mia) Suh, Benjamin Mako Hill, and Gary Hsieh. 2015. “How Activists Are Both Born and Made: An Analysis of Users on Change.Org.” In Proceedings of the 33rd Annual ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’15), 211–220. New York, New York: ACM Press. https://doi.org/10.1145/2702123.2702559. ''[[https://doi.org/10.1145/2702123.2702559Available through UW libraries]]'' {{avail-free|https://mako.cc/academic/huang_suh_hill_hsieh-changeorg_born_made-CHI2015-preprint.pdf}}
*  Shaw, Aaron, and Benjamin Mako Hill. 2014. “Laboratories of Oligarchy? How the Iron Law Extends to Peer Production.” Journal of Communication 64 (2): 215–38. https://doi.org/10.1111/jcom.12082. ''[[https://doi.org/10.1111/jcom.12082 Available through UW libraries]]'' {{avail-free|https://mako.cc/academic/shaw_hill-laboratories_of_oligarchy-DRAFT.pdf}}