Editing Building Successful Online Communities (Fall 2024) (section)

=== November 19 (Tuesday): Challenges and Frontiers: Innovation Communities and Hackers ===
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'''Lectures:'''  (watch ''before'' class)

* [https://uw.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=df0b740d-3264-4d87-aae1-b229007dce46 Innovation Communities (1/5): User Innovation] [10m44s]
* [https://uw.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=1a84aa46-6be0-4d23-a093-b229007dcdaf Innovation Communities (2/5): Sources of Innovation] [18m19s]
* [https://uw.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=1b2bbfaf-0c16-49e6-9db9-b229007dcde2 Innovation Communities (3/5): Free Innovation] [4m23s]
* [https://uw.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=78e0cbad-9d0d-4c91-a1ae-b229007dcd6f Innovation Communities (4/5): Community Innovation] [13m11s]
* [https://uw.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=46dacb0a-1dda-41da-84e9-b229007dce23 Innovation Communities (4/5): How Community Innovation Happens] [7m58s]

* [https://uw.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=e3f505ab-2b33-4eb8-83b1-b22b00554982 Hackers (Part 1/3): Introduction] [19m38s]
* [https://uw.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=6953e6df-c37e-4eb5-9e8c-b22b005548f2 Hackers (Part 2/3): CHDK Part 1] [11m29s]
* [https://uw.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=9cb69e10-db85-411d-82ce-b22b0055494e Hackers (Part 3/3): CHDK Part 2] [12m46s]

'''Resources:''' 

* [https://canvas.uw.edu/files/126748130/download?download_frd=1 Reading Note #7] (Requires Canvas access) (also available as [https://canvas.uw.edu/files/126748454/download?download_frd=1 an HTML document])
* [https://canvas.uw.edu/files/126747934/download?download_frd=1 Lecture Slides (Innovation Communities)] (Requires Canvas access)
* [https://canvas.uw.edu/files/126811452/download?download_frd=1 Lecture Slides (Hackers and CHDK)] (Requires Canvas access)
* [ Case Boards (Innovation Communities)] (Requires Canvas access) {{forthcoming}}
* [ Case Boards (Hackers and CHDK)] (Requires Canvas access) {{forthcoming}}

'''Required Readings:'''

* ''[Read Chapters 1, 2, & 5]'' von Hippel, Eric. 2005. ''Democratizing Innovation''. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press. {{avail-free|https://direct.mit.edu/books/book/2821/Democratizing-Innovation}}

Case #1 on Innocentive (AKA Wazoku Crowd):

* [Case] Allio, Robert J. 2004. “CEO Interview: The InnoCentive Model of Open Innovation.” Strategy & Leadership 32 (4): 4–9. https://doi.org/10.1108/10878570410547643. {{avail-uw|https://doi.org/10.1108/10878570410547643}}
* [Case] InnoCentive rebranded to Wazokucrowd. Spend some time poking around the [https://www.wazokucrowd.com// Wazokucrowd website]. Because they've removed some information, skip [https://www.wazokucrowd.com/challenges/faq/ The Wazoku Crowd FAQ] and read these two instead:
** [Case] [https://web.archive.org/web/20190629034830/https://www.innocentive.com/our-solvers/faqs/ The Innocentive Solver FAQ] (Archived on the Internet Archive)
** [Case] [https://web.archive.org/web/20190805065830/https://www.innocentive.com/offering-overview/seeker-faqs/ The Innocentive Seeker FAQ] (Archived on the Internet Archive)

Case #2 on CHDK and Nexus Mods:

* [Case] {{avail-wp|DIGIC#Custom_firmware}}
* [Case] Wayner, Peter. 2010. “Tweaking a Camera to Suit a Hobby.” ''The New York Times'', May 26, 2010, sec. Technology / Personal Tech. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/27/technology/personaltech/27basics.html. {{avail-uw|https://www.proquest.com/docview/346072852/fulltext/A244EAAB8E9B4524PQ}}
* [Case] ''CHDK Wiki'': Take a look at the [https://chdk.fandom.com/wiki/CHDK CHDK home page] and explore the Wiki to get a good idea of what this community is about, what they do, and how it works.
* [Case] {{avail-wp|Nexus Mods}}
* [Case] ''Nexus Mods'': Take a look at the [https://www.nexusmods.com/ home page] of Nexus Mods and get a sense of what this community is about. 
* [Case] Lee, Daniel, Dayi Lin, Cor-Paul Bezemer, and Ahmed E. Hassan. 2020. “Building the Perfect Game – an Empirical Study of Game Modifications.” ''Empirical Software Engineering'' 25 (4): 2485–2518. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10664-019-09783-w. {{avail-uw|https://doi.org/10.1007/s10664-019-09783-w}}

'''Optional Readings:'''

* von Hippel, Eric. 2016. ''Free Innovation''. Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT. {{avail-free|https://direct.mit.edu/books/book/5344/Free-Innovation}} <!-- mention in lecture -->
*  ''[Exceprts]'' Peralta, Stacy, dir. 2002. ''Dogtown and Z-Boys''. Documentary, Sport. Agi Orsi Productions, Vans. {{avail-canvas|1=https://uw.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=480bc3b7-7c01-4610-aaf2-b22900879bd3}}

* Rosenbaum, Ron. 1971. “Secrets of the Little Blue Box.” ''Esquire Magazine'', October, 116. https://classic.esquire.com/article/1971/10/1/secrets-of-the-blue-box. {{avail-free|https://classic.esquire.com/article/1971/10/1/secrets-of-the-blue-box}}  {{avail-free|http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/the_spectator/2011/10/the_article_that_inspired_steve_jobs_secrets_of_the_little_blue_.single.html}}
* Mollick, Ethan. 2005. “Tapping into the Underground.” ''MIT Sloan Management Review'' 46 (4): 21. http://sloanreview.mit.edu/article/tapping-into-the-underground/. {{avail-uw|http://sloanreview.mit.edu/article/tapping-into-the-underground/}}
* Mollick, Ethan. 2005. “The Engine of the Underground: The Elite-Kiddie Divide.” ''SIGGROUP Bulletin'' 25 (2): 23–27. https://doi.org/10.1145/1067721.1067726. {{avail-uw|https://doi.org/10.1145/1067721.1067726}}
* Scacchi, Walt. 2010. “Computer Game Mods, Modders, Modding, and the Mod Scene.” ''First Monday'' 15 (5). http://firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/2965. {{avail-free|http://firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/2965}}