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

=== April 23 (Tuesday): Newcomers II, Explosive Growth and Going Viral. Case: Reddit and Twitter ===

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

* [https://uw.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=db06c6a9-105a-4500-89cf-b15500147e92 Newcomers II (Part 1/3): Protection and socialization] [16m27s]
* [https://uw.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=2217120e-bedc-45e2-9533-b155001448cf Newcomers II (Part 2/3): Retaining new users] [14m00s]
* [https://uw.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=e82674b1-2e5b-4f17-9442-b1550013f618 Newcomers II (Part 3/3): Concluding thoughts] [14m02s]
* [Case] Kevin Allocca from YouTube [https://youtu.be/BpxVIwCbBK0 Why videos go viral], TedYouth2011.
* [https://uw.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=2781ee58-7a90-449d-9589-b1550013aca7 Growth and Explosive Growth] [9m09s]

'''Resources:''' 

* [https://canvas.uw.edu/files/119415808/download?download_frd=1 Reading Note #8] (Requires Canvas access)
* [https://canvas.uw.edu/files/117852059/download?download_frd=1 Newcomers II Lecture Slides] (Requires Canvas access)
* [https://canvas.uw.edu/files/117852028/download?download_frd=1 Growth Lecture Slides] (Requires Canvas access)
* [https://canvas.uw.edu/files/119749084/download?download_frd=1 Case Boards] (Requires Canvas access)
* [https://uw.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=ea973f85-dac0-455e-93a0-b15b011ea36e Class Video Recording] (Requires Canvas access)


'''Required Readings:'''

*  [[#Component 1: The Theory and Practice of Online Communities|BSOC]], Chapter 5, pg 205-223 (Sections 3-6)
* Baker-White, Emily (2022) [https://www.forbes.com/sites/emilybaker-white/2023/01/20/tiktoks-secret-heating-button-can-make-anyone-go-viral/?sh=4271c4e76bfd TikTok's Secret 'Heating' Button Can Make Anyone Go Viral]
* [Case] Lin, Zhiyuan, Niloufar Salehi, Bowen Yao, Yiqi Chen, and Michael S. Bernstein. 2017. “Better When It Was Smaller? Community Content and Behavior After Massive Growth.” In Eleventh International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media. Palo, Alto, CA: AAAI Press. https://www.aaai.org/ocs/index.php/ICWSM/ICWSM17/paper/view/15628. ''[[https://www.aaai.org/ocs/index.php/ICWSM/ICWSM17/paper/view/15628 Available through UW libraries]]'' '''Be sure to read the 10-page PDF, not just the abstract'''
* [Case] “This Is Damn Slick!” Estimating the Impact of Tweets on Open Source Project Popularity and New Contributors. Fang, H., Lamba, H., Herbsleb, J., and Vasilescu, B. International Conference on Software Engineering, ICSE, ACM (2022). https://doi.org/10.1145/3510003.3510121 ''[[https://doi.org/10.1145/3510003.3510121 Available through UW libraries]]''



'''Optional Readings:'''
* Nathan TeBlunthuis, Aaron Shaw, and Benjamin Mako Hill. 2018. Revisiting "The Rise and Decline" in a Population of Peer Production Projects. In Proceedings of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '18). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Paper 355, 1–7. https://doi.org/10.1145/3173574.3173929