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CommunityData:Fall 2024: I 320S / I 320U: Topics in Social Informatics and User Experience Design: Online Communities
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== Project 2: Critical Analysis of an Online Community == For the final assignment, I want you to take what you've learned in the class and apply it to a community you have observed or participated in. This project will involve two written assignments and a presentation. <span id="community-identification"></span> === Community Identification === Maximum Length: 300 words (~1 page double spaced)<br /> Deliverables: Turn in [[TKTK|through Canvas]] Due Date: Friday September 18 In this assignment, you should identify a community you are interested in β and that you hope to analyze critically in your final project. In this assignment, I am asking you to write 1-2 paragraphs explaining what community you want to study, why you care about it, and why you think it would be a rich site for reflection. If relevant or possible, it might be useful to also provide a link. I am hoping that each of you will pick a community that you are intellectually committed to and invested in your personal or work life. You should also keep in mind that you will be presenting this publicly to the class. You will be successful in this assignment if you identify a community and clearly explain why you think it would be a useful community to study using the concepts we have covered in the class. I will give you feedback on these write-ups and will let you each know if I think you have identified a project that might be too ambitious, too trivial, too broad, too narrow, etc. <span id="project-proposal"></span> === Final Project Proposal === Maximum Length: 600 words (~2 page double spaced)<br /> Deliverables: Turn in [[TKTK|through Canvas]]<br /> Due Date: Friday September 25th In this assignment, you should build upon your community identify assignment to flesh out ''what questions'' you want to ask your online community and ''how'' you are going to answer them. What sort of information or data are you going to collect? How will you analyze this information help you answer your question? You are encouraged to include examples of this type of information and analysis in your submission. The range of information you might collect or ways of analyzing it are very broad and may include quantitative approaches (e.g., you might collect data from an API and analyze it statistically), qualitative ones (e.g., you might collect content or community discussions and closely read it to generate insights), or design approaches (e.g., you might make a mockup or prototype of a design intervention and solicit feedback from users). This is not a research methods class, and I will not teach on research methods. However, I also want to create an opportunity for you to apply and further develop and ''research skills you already have'', and the TA and myself are available and enthusiastic to advise you on effective data collection and analysis strategies. I will give you feedback on these proposals and, as with the community identification assignment, I will help ensure that your proposal has an appropriate scope that is achievable within the month remaining in the term and meets my expectations for the final project. <span id="final-projects"></span> === Final Projects: Critical Analysis of Online Community === Final Presentation Date: Friday December 13<br /> Paper Due Date: Friday December 13 @ 11:59pm<br /> Maximum paper length: 2,000 words (~8 pages double spaced)<br /> For your final project, I expect you to build on the community identification and project proposal assignments to describe what they have done and what they have found. I'll expect you to give both: * A final presentation (see below) * A final report that is not more than 2,000 words (~8 pages double spaced) Each project should include: (a) the description of the community you have identified (you are welcome to borrow from your Community Identification assignment), (b) a description of how you would use the course concepts to change and improve the community. You will be evaluated on the degree to which you have demonstrated that you understand and have engaged with the course material and not on specifics of your community. I want you to reflect on what parts of theory we covered apply or do not. What does the community do right according to what you've learned? What might it do differently in the future based on what you've read? What did the course and readings not teach that they should have? Your audience is people who are interested in the community as well as the general public. A successful project will tell a compelling story and will engage with, and improve upon, the course material to teach all of us -- that is, an audience that includes me, your classmates, and those who take this class in future years, how to take advantage of online communities more effectively. The very best papers will give us all a new understanding of some aspect of course material and change the way I teach some portion of this course in the future. <span id="presentation"></span> ==== Presentation ==== * Prepare a short (5-7min) presentation to share your final project with the class. The contents should summarize your final paper. * I am not expecting anything fancy from these presentations. Slides may be helpful, but are optional. This is an open-ended opportunity to practice and enjoy communicating about your work. * I will bring feedback slips to the presentation day to facilitate everyone getting peer feedback on their presentations. * Turn in copy of paper [[TKTK|in Canvas]] <span id="take-home-assignments"></span>
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