Editing Online Communities and Crowds (Winter 2022)

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====== Exam ======
====== Exam ======


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 several 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.
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.
 
: [https://canvas.northwestern.edu/courses/160351/assignments/1010459 '''Exam link (Canvas)''']


: 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 23
: Project abstract/proposal due: February 22
: Completed project due: March 16
: Completed project due: March 16


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==== Additional resources ====
==== Additional resources ====
* Aurora, Valerie and Gardiner, Mary. 2019. [https://frameshiftconsulting.com/resources/code-of-conduct-book/ How to respond to code of conduct reports]. Frameshift Consulting.
* 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  
 
: [https://northwestern.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Sessions/List.aspx?folderID=0bc61fc9-2572-41c0-818b-ae3c0164464e '''Lecture recordings'''] (panopto) and [https://canvas.northwestern.edu/files/13185232/download?download_frd=1 '''slides'''] (canvas)


==== Assignments ====
==== Assignments ====
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==== Additional resources ====
==== Additional resources ====
* King, Gary, Jennifer Pan, and Margaret E. Roberts. (2017). [https://gking.harvard.edu/files/gking/files/how_the_chinese_government_fabricates_social_media_posts_for_strategic_distraction_not_engaged_argument.pdf How the Chinese government fabricates social media posts for strategic distraction, not engaged argument]. American Political Science Review 111, no. 3: 484-501.
* Stallman, R. (1984). [https://www.gnu.org/gnu/manifesto.html The GNU manifesto].
* Stallman, R. (1989). [https://gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/gpl-1.0.html The GNU general public license, version 1].
* von Hippel, E. (2012). [http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=cKcAcm5NDOI The Paradigm Shift from Producer to User Innovation] (video lecture).
* von Hippel, E. (2012). [http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=odj5VnTI490 Users Working Together in Communities are Powerful Innovators] (video lecture).
* von Hippel, E. (2005). [http://web.mit.edu/evhippel/www/democ1.htm Democratizing innovation]. MIT Press.


=== Week 8: Profit (02.23) ===
=== Week 8: Profit (02.23) ===
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# Whither alternatives?  
# Whither alternatives?  


: [https://northwestern.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Sessions/List.aspx?folderID=6a62de8f-8947-4b93-a58d-ae44011431a5 Lecture recording (panopto)] and [https://canvas.northwestern.edu/courses/160351/files/folder/lecture%20slides/Week%208 slides (canvas)]
==== Assignments ====
==== Assignments ====
===== Undergraduate =====
===== Undergraduate =====
* Mary Gray and Siddharth Suri. 2019. Ghost Work. Read Introduction, Chs 1, 3, and 6 (Other chapters and Conclusion optional). (Available via [https://canvas.northwestern.edu/files/13203473/download?download_frd=1 via Canvas] or [https://archive.org/details/mary-l.-gray-siddharth-suri-ghost-work-how-to-stop-silicon-valley-from-building- the Internet Archive])
* 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].
* 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


==== Additional resources ====
==== Additional resources ====
* Davis, Gerald F., and Aseem Sinha. [https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/2631787721995198 Varieties of Uberization: How technology and institutions change the organization (s) of late capitalism]. Organization Theory 2, no. 1 (2021): 2631787721995198.
* 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


: [https://northwestern.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Sessions/List.aspx?folderID=74ee14bc-306a-457a-a1ae-ae4401143753 Lecture recordings] (Panopto) and [https://canvas.northwestern.edu/files/13329976/download?download_frd=1 slides] (canvas).
==== Assignments ====
==== Assignments ====
===== Undergraduate =====
===== Undergraduate =====
* Massanari, Adrienne. "[https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1461444815608807 #Gamergate and The Fappening: How Reddit’s algorithm, governance, and culture support toxic technocultures]." New media & society 19, no. 3 (2017): 329-346.
* TBA
* Simpson, Ellen and Bryan Semaan. 2021. [https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3432951 For You, or For"You"? Everyday LGBTQ+ Encounters with TikTok]. Proc. ACM Hum.-Comput. Interact. 4, CSCW3, Article 252 (December 2020), 34 pages. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1145/3432951


===== Graduate =====
===== Graduate =====
* Michael Ann DeVito. 2021. Adaptive Folk Theorization as a Path to Algorithmic Literacy on Changing Platforms. In Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, Vol. 5, CSCW2, Article 339 (October 2021), 35 pages, [https://doi.org/10.1145/3476080 https://doi.org/10.1145/3476080].
*TBA
* Geiger, R. Stuart (2014). Bots, bespoke, code and the materiality of software platforms. Information, Communication & Society. DOI:10.1080/1369118X.2013.873069 ([https://escholarship.org/content/qt6xc0m98k/qt6xc0m98k.pdf preprint version])


==== Additional resources ====
==== Additional resources ====
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==== Lectures ====
==== Lectures ====
# The future of online communities & crowds
# The future of online communities


==== Assignments ====
==== Assignments ====
===== Undergraduate =====
===== Undergraduate =====
* [https://canvas.northwestern.edu/courses/160351/assignments/1010459 Take-home exam (distributed 3/7, due 3/8)]
* TBA
===== Graduate =====
* TBA


==== Additional resources ====
==== Additional resources ====
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