Editing Building Successful Online Communities (Fall 2024) (section)

=== November 26 (Tuesday): Challenges and Frontiers: Dr. Regina Cheng and Hackers ===
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'''Lectures:'''  (watch ''before'' class)

* [https://uw.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=e3f505ab-2b33-4eb8-83b1-b22b00554982 Hackers (Part 1/3): Introduction] [19m38s]
* [https://uw.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=6953e6df-c37e-4eb5-9e8c-b22b005548f2 Hackers (Part 2/3): CHDK Part 1] [11m29s]
* [https://uw.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=9cb69e10-db85-411d-82ce-b22b0055494e Hackers (Part 3/3): CHDK Part 2] [12m46s]

'''Resources:''' 

* [https://canvas.uw.edu/files/126748130/download?download_frd=1 Reading Note #7] (Requires Canvas access) (also available as [https://canvas.uw.edu/files/126748454/download?download_frd=1 an HTML document]) (only the second part about CHDK will be relevant)
* [https://canvas.uw.edu/files/127328281/download?download_frd=1 Case Boards (Hackers and CHDK)] (Requires Canvas access)
* [https://uw.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=b0d8230d-6f0a-4e85-b7c3-b236012ed2fc Video of Dr. Cheng's presentation and Q&A] (Requires Canvas access)
* [https://uw.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=78660756-61b6-4926-9b2f-b236012ed300 Case discussion video] (Requires Canvas access)

'''Required Readings:'''

''Case #1: Guest lecture and Q&A with Dr. Regina Cheng:''

We will be joined in class by [https://reginachangzhou.github.io/ Ruijia Cheng, PhD] (Regina, 程瑞加). Dr. Cheng is a Research Scientist at Apple in the ''Human Centered Machine Intelligence (HCMI)'' group. She has published a number of papers about learning, feedback, and AI in online communities—three of the top topics that folks requested most frequently in the poll. Dr. Cheng received her PhD in 2023 in the [https://www.hcde.washington.edu/ Department of Human-Centered Design & Engineering at UW], and I was honored to serve as one of the co-advisors of her dissertation work. Dr Cheng tells me she plans to present work based on the three studies below.

Please read '''one of the three papers below'''. Feel free to pick whichever one you're most excited about:

* Cheng, Ruijia, Sayamindu Dasgupta, and Benjamin Mako Hill. 2022. “How Interest-Driven Content Creation Shapes Opportunities for Informal Learning in Scratch: A Case Study on Novices’ Use of Data Structures.” In ''Proceedings of the 2022 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems'', 1–16. CHI ’22. New York, NY, USA: Association for Computing Machinery. https://doi.org/10.1145/3491102.3502124. {{avail-free|https://doi.org/10.1145/3491102.3502124}}
* Cheng, Ruijia, and Jenna Frens. 2022. “Feedback Exchange and Online Affinity: A Case Study of Online Fanfiction Writers.” ''Proceedings of the ACM: Human-Computer Interaction'' 6 (CSCW2): 402:1-402:29. https://doi.org/10.1145/3555127. {{avail-free|https://doi.org/10.1145/3555127}}
* Cheng, Ruijia, Ruotong Wang, Thomas Zimmermann, and Denae Ford. 2024. “‘It Would Work for Me Too’: How Online Communities Shape Software Developers’ Trust in AI-Powered Code Generation Tools.” ''ACM Transaction on Interactive Intelligent Systems'' 14 (2): 11:1-11:39. https://doi.org/10.1145/3651990. {{avail-free|https://doi.org/10.1145/3651990}}

There are no reading note for this case or specific questions I want you to prepare answers to. Your assignment is to come prepared with two questions based on the paper you've read. We'll be ready to call people from the cold call list, so be ready!

''Case #2 on CHDK and Nexus Mods:''

* [Case] {{avail-wp|DIGIC#Custom_firmware}}
* [Case] Wayner, Peter. 2010. “Tweaking a Camera to Suit a Hobby.” ''The New York Times'', May 26, 2010, sec. Technology / Personal Tech. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/27/technology/personaltech/27basics.html. {{avail-uw|https://www.proquest.com/docview/346072852/fulltext/A244EAAB8E9B4524PQ}}
* [Case] ''CHDK Wiki'': Take a look at the [https://chdk.fandom.com/wiki/CHDK CHDK home page] and explore the Wiki to get a good idea of what this community is about, what they do, and how it works.
* [Case] {{avail-wp|Nexus Mods}}
* [Case] ''Nexus Mods'': Take a look at the [https://www.nexusmods.com/ home page] of Nexus Mods and get a sense of what this community is about. 
* [Case] Lee, Daniel, Dayi Lin, Cor-Paul Bezemer, and Ahmed E. Hassan. 2020. “Building the Perfect Game – an Empirical Study of Game Modifications.” ''Empirical Software Engineering'' 25 (4): 2485–2518. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10664-019-09783-w. {{avail-uw|https://doi.org/10.1007/s10664-019-09783-w}}

'''Optional Readings:'''

* Rosenbaum, Ron. 1971. “Secrets of the Little Blue Box.” ''Esquire Magazine'', October, 116. https://classic.esquire.com/article/1971/10/1/secrets-of-the-blue-box. {{avail-free|https://classic.esquire.com/article/1971/10/1/secrets-of-the-blue-box}}  {{avail-free|http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/the_spectator/2011/10/the_article_that_inspired_steve_jobs_secrets_of_the_little_blue_.single.html}}
* Mollick, Ethan. 2005. “Tapping into the Underground.” ''MIT Sloan Management Review'' 46 (4): 21. http://sloanreview.mit.edu/article/tapping-into-the-underground/. {{avail-uw|http://sloanreview.mit.edu/article/tapping-into-the-underground/}}
* Mollick, Ethan. 2005. “The Engine of the Underground: The Elite-Kiddie Divide.” ''SIGGROUP Bulletin'' 25 (2): 23–27. https://doi.org/10.1145/1067721.1067726. {{avail-uw|https://doi.org/10.1145/1067721.1067726}}
* Scacchi, Walt. 2010. “Computer Game Mods, Modders, Modding, and the Mod Scene.” ''First Monday'' 15 (5). http://firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/2965. {{avail-free|http://firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/2965}}