Editing Building Successful Online Communities (Spring 2021) (section)

== Credit and Notes ==

This will be the fourth time this course has been taught at UW in its current form. This syllabuses draws heavily from these previous versions. Syllabuses from earlier classes can be found online at:

* [[Interpersonal Media (Winter 2020)]] by [[User:Mako|Mako Hill]]
* [[Interpersonal Media (Winter 2019)]] by [https://teblunthuis.cc/ Nate TeBlunthuis] 
* [[Interpersonal Media (Fall 2015)]] by [[User:Mako|Mako Hill]]
* [https://mako.cc/teaching/2014/interpersonal_media/ Interpersonal Media (Fall 2014)]  by [[User:Mako|Mako Hill]]

This syllabus was inspired by, and borrowed heavily with permission from, other classes on online communities taught by young academics whose teaching I admire and respect:

* [http://aaronshaw.org/ Aaron Shaw] at Northwestern University's [http://aaronshaw.org/occ/schedule/ Online Communities and Crowds]
* [http://reagle.org/joseph/ Joseph Reagle] at Northeastern University's [http://reagle.org/joseph/2014/oc/oc-syllabus-FA.html Online Communities]

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Learning Communities

Guest Lecture from [http://www.unmad.in/ Sayamindu Dasgupta] who is a professor at the Information School at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. 

TODO: Add readings (Maybe something about communities of practice?)

'''Required Readings:'''

* Roque, R.; Dasgupta, S.; Costanza-Chock, S. Children’s Civic Engagement in the Scratch Online Community. Soc. Sci. 2016, 5, 55. [https://www.mdpi.com/2076-0760/5/4/55 Open Access]
* Brennan, K., Monroy‐Hernández, A., & Resnick, M. (2010). Making projects, making friends: Online community as catalyst for interactive media creation. New directions for youth development, 2010(128), 75-83. [http://web.media.mit.edu/~mres/papers/NDYD-final.pdf PDF From MIT.edu]
* [Case] [https://scratch.mit.edu/ https://scratch.mit.edu]: Visit the site. Read [https://scratch.mit.edu/about the about page], the [https://scratch.mit.edu/parents the information for parents], [https://scratch.mit.edu/educators and for educators]. Watch all the videos.  Spend some time exploring and run some programs (try to find at least one animation and at least one game). 
* [Case] [https://www.blockstud.io/ https://www.blockstud.io/]: For the case we're going to compare scratch to a different: Block Studio. This is an experimental project by Raoul, a PhD student at UW.  Click start and watch the three lessons. You don't have to actually make any games with Block Studio, but do learn how it works as much as you can.  After that [https://www.blockstud.io/bsp/bsp_games/ survey the published projects].

Social Computing

We have a special guest this week: [http://www.andresmh.com/ Andrés Monroy-Hernandez!] Andrés was previously at Microsoft Research and is currently a lead research scientist at Snap Inc., the maker of Snapchat.  Andrés has research interests ranging from civic communities to educational communities and more recently he is focusing on "social computing systems," which we will learn about today.

'''Required Readings:'''
* Howe, J. (2006). [https://www.wired.com/2006/06/crowds/ The rise of crowdsourcing]. Wired Magazine, 14(6), 1–4.
* [Case] [https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSMechTurk/latest/RequesterUI/Introduction.html Amazon Mechanical Turk Requester UI Guide]
* [Case] [https://mturkpublic.s3.amazonaws.com/docs/MTURK_BP.pdf Amazon Mechanical Turk Best Practices Guide].

'''Optional Readings:'''

Our guest speaker will be talking about these three papers. It might be good to look these over before class:

* Justin Cranshaw, Emad Elwany, Todd Newman, Rafal Kocielnik, Bowen Yu, Sandeep Soni, Jaime Teevan, and Andrés Monroy-Hernández. 2017. Calendar.help: Designing a Workflow-Based Scheduling Agent with Humans in the Loop. In Proceedings of the 2017 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '17). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 2382-2393. [https://doi.org/10.1145/3025453.3025780 (Open Access)]
* Cranshaw, J., Monroy-Hernández, A., & Needham, S. A. (2016). [https://doi.org/10.1145/2858036.2858573 Journeys & Notes: Designing Social Computing for Non-Places]. In Proceedings of the 2016 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (pp. 4722–4733). New York, NY, USA: ACM. [Available through UW libraries]
* Agapie, E., & Monroy-Hernández, A. (2015). [http://arxiv.org/abs/1507.01300 Eventful: Crowdsourcing Local News Reporting]. arXiv:1507.01300 [Cs].


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