Editing Online Communities (UW COM481 Winter 2022) (section)

=== February 28 (Monday):  Anonymity and Identifiability in Online Communities ===

'''Guest Lecturer:''' [https://kayleachampion.com/ Kaylea Champion]

'''Resources:'''
* [https://canvas.uw.edu/files/88419236/download?download_frd=1 Reading Note #7] (Requires Canvas access) 
* Kaylea Champion's [https://canvas.uw.edu/files/88450958/download?download_frd=1 Lecture Slides Part 1] and [https://canvas.uw.edu/files/88450953/download?download_frd=1 Lecture Slides Part 2] (Requires Canvas access)
* [https://canvas.uw.edu/files/88705707/download?download_frd=1 Case Boards] (Requires Canvas access)
* [https://uw.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=e9692cdd-eba8-454f-8e95-ae4c012f843b Class Video Recording] (Requires Canvas access)

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

* [https://uw.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=3d587ff5-d662-43ac-90db-ae45001970d2 Anonymity in Communication Studies: Overview and History] [13m]
* [https://uw.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=4d79d872-48ce-4580-85e4-ae46001502c7 Anonymity and Facets of Identifiability] [10m30s]
* [https://youtu.be/8jNMzHB-f-s What's anonymity worth?] [7m20s] Conference talk from Kaylea Champion (forthcoming at MozFest 2022)
* [https://www.ted.com/talks/christopher_moot_poole_the_case_for_anonymity_online TED Talk: Christopher Poole describing 4chan] [11m8s]
* [https://www.ted.com/talks/jamie_bartlett_how_the_mysterious_dark_net_is_going_mainstream TED Talk: Jamie Bartlett and the Dark Web] [13m48s]

'''Required Readings:'''

* Andrea Forte, Nazanin Andalibi, and Rachel Greenstadt. 2017. Privacy, Anonymity, and Perceived Risk in Open Collaboration: A Study of Tor Users and Wikipedians. In Proceedings of the 2017 ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CSCW '17). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 1800–1811. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1145/2998181.2998273 {{avail-uw|https://doi.org/10.1145/2998181.2998273}}

'''Optional Readings'''

* Hill, B. M., & Shaw, A. (2021). The Hidden Costs of Requiring Accounts: Quasi-Experimental Evidence From Peer Production. Communication Research, 48(6), 771–795. https://doi.org/10.1177/0093650220910345 {{avail-uw|https://doi.org/10.1177/0093650220910345}}
* Anonymous, To Reveal or Not to Reveal: A Theoretical Model of Anonymous Communication, Communication Theory, Volume 8, Issue 4, 1 November 1998, Pages 381–407, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2885.1998.tb00226.x {{avail-uw|https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2885.1998.tb00226.x}}
* [https://www.ted.com/talks/will_cathcart_the_future_of_digital_communication_and_privacy TED Talk: Will Cathcart and Whatsapp] [18m44s]

<!--- Interactions Between Communities {{tentative}} 


'''Guest Lecturer:'''

* [https://teblunthuis.cc/ Nathan TeBlunthuis]

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

* [Ecology of Online Communities] [52m54s] {{forthcoming}}

'''Resources:'''

* [Week 9 Reading Note] (Requires Canvas access) {{forthcoming}}
* Nathan TeBlunthuis' [Lecture Slides] (Requires Canvas access) {{forthcoming}}
* [Case Boards] (Requires Canvas access) {{forthcoming}}
* [Class/Case Screencast] (Requires Canvas access) {{forthcoming}}

''' Readings:'''
* Zhu, Haiyi, Jilin Chen, Tara Matthews, Aditya Pal, Hernan Badenes, and Robert E. Kraut. 2014. “Selecting an Effective Niche: An Ecological View of the Success of Online Communities.” In Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’14), 301–310. New York, New York: ACM. https://doi.org/10.1145/2556288.2557348. {{avail-uw|https://doi.org/10.1145/2556288.2557348}}
* [Case] Sharp, Nathan. 2019. “It’s Facebook Official, Dating Is Here.” About Facebook (blog). September 5, 2019. https://about.fb.com/news/2019/09/facebook-dating/.
* [Case] Information on other online dating services that existed before Facebook including:
** [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_online_dating_services Comparison of online data services] [Wikipedia]
**  '''Match.com''' [[:wikipedia:Match.com|Match.com Wikipedia article]]; [https://www.match.com/help/aboutus.aspx?lid=4 About Match.com]
**  '''Tinder''' — [[:wikipedia:Tinder (app)|Tinder]]; [https://blog.gotinder.com/?locale=en Tinder Blog]
**  '''Hinge''' — [[:wikipedia:Hinge (app)|Hinge Wikipedia article]]; [https://hingeapp.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/categories/360001659533-Getting-Started Hinge Getting Started FAQ]
**  '''Grindr''' — [[:wikipedia:Grindr|Grindr Wikipedia article]]; [https://hingeapp.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/categories/360001659533-Getting-Started Hinge Getting Started FAQ]
**  '''OkCupid''' — [[:wikipedia:OkCupid|OkCupid Wikipedia article]]; [https://www.okcupid.com/about OkCupid About Page]
**  '''JSwipe''' — [[:wikipedia:JSwipe|JSwipe Wikipedia article]]; [https://jswipeapp.com/ JSwipe website]

'''Optional Readings:'''
* Zhu, Haiyi, Robert E. Kraut, and Aniket Kittur. 2014. “The Impact of Membership Overlap on the Survival of Online Communities.” In Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 281–290. CHI ’14. New York, NY: ACM. https://doi.org/10.1145/2556288.2557213. {{avail-uw|https://doi.org/10.1145/2556288.2557213}}
:'''Note:''' This is an alternate reading for the required reading by Zhu et al. (2014) above. If you've already the this one, you do ''not'' need to read this the required reading. If you have not read either, you should read the one above.
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