Editing Online Communities and Crowds (Winter 2022)
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Undergraduate students in the course will be required to complete a take-home exam late in the quarter that will cover material from lectures and from the assigned readings. The exam will consist of | Undergraduate students in the course will be required to complete a take-home exam late in the quarter that will cover material from lectures and from the assigned readings. The exam will consist of two short essay prompts. The prompts will cover course materials up to the point of the exam; they will emphasize synthetic understanding of course materials and will not require outside research. We estimate the exam will only take a couple of hours to complete, however, given the circumstances, we will make it available during two days and students may complete it at any time during that window. | ||
: Exam available: March 7 | : Exam available: March 7 | ||
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Graduate students in the course will be required to complete an original research project. This project may take the form of (1) a detailed research plan/proposal; (2) a replication/revisit of an important and influential study; (3) a completed original research manuscript (i.e., a "submission-ready" draft of a journal article or conference paper). Please note that you are also required to submit an abstract/proposal for the project and you must submit a new abstract/proposal at least two weeks before the project due date if you want to change the topic/direction substantially. | Graduate students in the course will be required to complete an original research project. This project may take the form of (1) a detailed research plan/proposal; (2) a replication/revisit of an important and influential study; (3) a completed original research manuscript (i.e., a "submission-ready" draft of a journal article or conference paper). Please note that you are also required to submit an abstract/proposal for the project and you must submit a new abstract/proposal at least two weeks before the project due date if you want to change the topic/direction substantially. | ||
: Project abstract/proposal due: February | : Project abstract/proposal due: February 22 | ||
: Completed project due: March 16 | : Completed project due: March 16 | ||
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: '''[https://northwestern.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Sessions/List.aspx?folderID=6115fc48-9698-40d4-9eb5-ae350029f168 Lecture recordings]''' (Panopto) and '''[https://canvas.northwestern.edu/courses/160351/files/folder/lecture%20slides/Week%206 lecture slides]''' (Canvas) | : '''[https://northwestern.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Sessions/List.aspx?folderID=6115fc48-9698-40d4-9eb5-ae350029f168 Lecture recordings]''' (Panopto) and '''[https://canvas.northwestern.edu/courses/160351/files/folder/lecture%20slides/Week%206 lecture slides]''' (Canvas) | ||
: '''Guest speaker in class Wed.:''' Molly de Blanc (Debian Project, Gnome Project, Community Data Science Collective | : '''Guest speaker in class Wed.:''' Molly de Blanc (Debian Project, Gnome Project, Community Data Science Collective, and more) | ||
==== Assignments ==== | ==== Assignments ==== | ||
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==== Additional resources ==== | ==== Additional resources ==== | ||
* Hampton, Rachelle. 2019. [https://slate.com/technology/2019/04/black-feminists-alt-right-twitter-gamergate.html The black feminists who saw the alt-right coming]. Slate. | * Hampton, Rachelle. 2019. [https://slate.com/technology/2019/04/black-feminists-alt-right-twitter-gamergate.html The black feminists who saw the alt-right coming]. Slate. | ||
* Ilori, Tomiwa. 2020. [https://slate.com/technology/2020/08/social-media-content-moderation-african-nations.html Content moderation is particularly hard in African countries]. Slate. | * Ilori, Tomiwa. 2020. [https://slate.com/technology/2020/08/social-media-content-moderation-african-nations.html Content moderation is particularly hard in African countries]. Slate. | ||
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==== Lectures ==== | ==== Lectures ==== | ||
# How do they do it? Community production dynamics | # How do they do it? Community production dynamics | ||
# Social production, social failures | # Social production, social failures | ||
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==== Additional resources ==== | ==== Additional resources ==== | ||
=== Week 8: Profit (02.23) === | === Week 8: Profit (02.23) === | ||
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# Whither alternatives? | # Whither alternatives? | ||
==== Assignments ==== | ==== Assignments ==== | ||
===== Undergraduate ===== | ===== Undergraduate ===== | ||
* Mary Gray and Siddharth Suri. 2019. Ghost Work. | * Mary Gray and Siddharth Suri. 2019. Ghost Work. (excerpts). | ||
* Nathan Schneider. 2018. [https://doi.org/10.1177/0038026118758533 An internet of ownership: Democratic design for the online economy]. The Sociological Review 66, no. 2 (March 2018): 320–40. https://doi.org/10.1177/0038026118758533 | |||
===== Graduate ===== | ===== Graduate ===== | ||
* Abhishek Nagaraj and Henning Piezunka. 2020 (unpublished ms). [https://abhishekn.com/files/openstreetmap_google_feb2020.pdf How Competition Affects Contributions to Open Source Platforms: Evidence from OpenStreetMap and Google Maps]. | * Abhishek Nagaraj and Henning Piezunka. 2020 (unpublished ms). [https://abhishekn.com/files/openstreetmap_google_feb2020.pdf How Competition Affects Contributions to Open Source Platforms: Evidence from OpenStreetMap and Google Maps]. | ||
==== Additional resources ==== | ==== Additional resources ==== | ||
* Juliet B. Schor and Manuel Vallas. 2020. The sharing economy: Rhetoric and reality. Annual Review of Sociology. | * Juliet B. Schor and Manuel Vallas. 2020. The sharing economy: Rhetoric and reality. Annual Review of Sociology. | ||
* Juliet B. Schor. 2020. After the gig: How the sharing economy got hijacked and how to win it back. University of California Press. | * Juliet B. Schor. 2020. After the gig: How the sharing economy got hijacked and how to win it back. University of California Press. | ||
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# FATE and other horizons of AI | # FATE and other horizons of AI | ||
==== Assignments ==== | ==== Assignments ==== | ||
===== Undergraduate ===== | ===== Undergraduate ===== | ||
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===== Graduate ===== | ===== Graduate ===== | ||
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==== Additional resources ==== | ==== Additional resources ==== | ||
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# The future of online communities | # The future of online communities | ||
==== Assignments ==== | ==== Assignments ==== | ||
===== Undergraduate ===== | ===== Undergraduate ===== | ||
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===== Graduate ===== | |||
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==== Additional resources ==== | ==== Additional resources ==== |