Editing Building Successful Online Communities (Fall 2025) (section)

=== October 14 (Tuesday): Micro: Commitment ===
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'''Lectures:'''  (watch ''before'' class)

* [https://uw.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=d76d888b-64db-4af3-9960-b36d01443c9f Commitment I (1/5): Introduction] [7m24s]
* [https://uw.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=45d74f16-31b2-4108-86c8-b36d002b4c98 Commitment I (2/5): Identity-based] [13m4s]
* [https://uw.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=1a7e9eee-3cbb-4b02-93d5-b36d01443c92 Commitment I (3/5): Bonds-based] [15m32s]
* [https://uw.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=8fc8be10-00a9-43e0-8eb0-b36d01443c91 Commitment I (4/5): Normative] [11m59s]
* [https://uw.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=f44dcdcd-e796-491d-b8fb-b36d01443c8a Commitment I (5/5): Needs-based] [8m43s]
* [https://uw.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=881320c6-ce56-4499-9d24-b36d0144749c Commitment II (1/2): Lockin] [18m05s] (Requires Canvas Access)
* [https://uw.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=84912e8a-86d2-4212-b2d7-b36d01447494 Commitment II (2/2): Engagement versus Commitment] [9m00s] (Requires Canvas Access)

'''Resources:'''

* [https://canvas.uw.edu/courses/1828172/files/folder/reading_notes?preview=139803762 Reading note #2] (Requires Canvas access)
* [https://canvas.uw.edu/courses/1828172/files/folder/slides?preview=139013564 Lecture slides for Commitment I] (Requires Canvas access)
* [https://canvas.uw.edu/courses/1828172/files/folder/slides?preview=139013565 Lecture slides for Commitment II (Lockin)] (Requires Canvas access)
* [https://canvas.uw.edu/courses/1828172/files/folder/case_boards?preview=140164738 Case boards (Wikiprojects)] (Requires Canvas access)
* [https://canvas.uw.edu/courses/1828172/files/folder/case_boards?preview=140164771 Case boards (Microblogging)] (Requires Canvas access)
* [https://uw.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=1d89be67-322d-4f0f-a946-b37700735125 Case discussion video (Wikiprojects)] (Requires Canvas access)
* [https://uw.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=9776fc22-6373-49bb-9c25-b3770073a9de Case discussion video (Microblogging)] (Requires Canvas access)

'''Required Reading:''' (read ''before'' class)

*  [[#Component 1: The Theory and Practice of Online Communities|BSOC]], Chapter 3, pg 77-112 (§1-4)

'''Required Readings for Case #1 on Wikipedia:'''

We're going to be doing our first Wikipedia case. To do so, we'll be looking at five different "WikiProject" communities within English Wikipedia. In some of these cases, there is an enormous amount of material on the pages and subpages. Poke around for 10 minutes or so on each until you get a sense for who is participating and how and why people build commitment to the WikiProject such that you will be comfortable answering the questions in the reading note. Please ''do not'' try to post or disrupt on the project for the purposes of this assignment in any way. We're guests in their communities and you only need to look:

* [Case] [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Women_in_Red WikiProject Women in Red]
* [Case] [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Military_history WikiProject Military History]
* [Case] [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Department_of_Fun Department of Fun]
* [Case] [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Guild_of_Copy_Editors Guild of Copy Editors]
* [Case] [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Seattle WikiProject Seattle]

'''Required Readings for Case #2 on microblogging:'''

* [Case] Mir, Rory, and Ross Schulman. 2024. “What’s the Difference Between Mastodon, Bluesky, and Threads?” ''Electronic Frontier Foundation''. June 18, 2024. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/06/whats-difference-between-mastodon-bluesky-and-threads. {{avail-free|https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/06/whats-difference-between-mastodon-bluesky-and-threads}}
* [Case] Peters, Jay. 2022. "Twitter is blocking links to Mastodon." ''The Verge''. December 15, 2022. https://www.theverge.com/2022/12/15/23512113/twitter-blocking-mastodon-links-elon-musk-elonjet {{avail-free|1=https://www.theverge.com/2022/12/15/23512113/twitter-blocking-mastodon-links-elon-musk-elonjet}}
* [Case] Ingram, David. 2024 "Fewer people using Elon Musk's X as it struggles to keep users" MSNBC March 22, 2024. https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/fewer-people-using-elon-musks-x-struggles-keep-users-rcna144115. {{avail-free|https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/fewer-people-using-elon-musks-x-struggles-keep-users-rcna144115}}
* [Case] Parham, Jason. 2024. “Blacksky Is Nothing Like Black Twitter—and It Doesn’t Need to Be.” Tags. Wired, December 13. https://www.wired.com/story/blacksky-is-nothing-like-black-twitter/. {{avail-free|https://www.wired.com/story/blacksky-is-nothing-like-black-twitter/}}
* [Case] Perez, Sarah. 2025. “Bounce Introduces a Tool to Move Your Mastodon Account to Bluesky.” TechCrunch, October 8. https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/08/bounces-new-version-will-let-users-move-from-mastodon-to-bluesky/. {{avail-free|https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/08/bounces-new-version-will-let-users-move-from-mastodon-to-bluesky/}}
* [Case] Sheffield, Matthew. 2025. “Banning Controversy Reveals Bluesky’s Federation Isn’t There yet.” October 7. https://plus.flux.community/p/banning-controversy-reveals-blueskys. {{avail-free|https://plus.flux.community/p/banning-controversy-reveals-blueskys}}

'''Optional Readings:'''

*  [[#Component 1: The Theory and Practice of Online Communities|BSOC]], Chapter 3, pg 112-115 (§5)
* Hill, Benjamin Mako, and Andrés Monroy-Hernández. 2013. “The Remixing Dilemma: The Trade-off between Generativity and Originality.” ''American Behavioral Scientist'' 57 (5): 643–63. {{avail-uw|https://doi.org/10.1177/0002764212469359}}
* Preece, Jennifer, and Ben Shneiderman. 2009. “The Reader-to-Leader Framework: Motivating Technology-Mediated Social Participation.” ''AIS Transactions on Human-Computer Interaction'' 1 (1): 13–32. {{avail-free|https://aisel.aisnet.org/thci/vol1/iss1/5/}}
* Schoenebeck, Sarita Yardi. 2013. “The Secret Life of Online Moms: Anonymity and Disinhibition on YouBeMom.Com.” In ''Seventh International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media''. {{avail-free|https://www.aaai.org/ocs/index.php/ICWSM/ICWSM13/paper/view/5973}}
* {{avail-wp|Exit, Voice, and Loyalty}}

'''Optional Readings for Case #1 on Wikipedia:'''

* [Case] Jemielniak, Dariusz, Agnieszka Rychwalska, Szymon Talaga, and Karolina Ziembowicz. 2021. “Wikiproject Tropical Cyclones: The Most Successful Crowd-Sourced Knowledge Project with near Real-Time Coverage of Extreme Weather Phenomena.” ''Weather and Climate Extremes'' 33 (September):100354. {{avail-free|https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wace.2021.100354}}
* [Case] Morgan, Jonathan T., Michael Gilbert, David W. McDonald, and Mark Zachry. 2013. “Project Talk: Coordination Work and Group Membership in WikiProjects.” In ''Proceedings of the 9th International Symposium on Open Collaboration'', 1–10. WikiSym ’13. New York, NY, USA: Association for Computing Machinery. {{avail-uw|https://doi.org/10.1145/2491055.2491058}}

'''Optional Readings for Case #2 on Microblogging:'''

* [Case] [https://www.zdnet.com/article/i-tried-replacing-twitter-with-bluesky-threads-and-mastodon-heres-what-i-found/ Comparison of Bluesky, Threads and Mastodon]
* [Case] Ravenscraft, Eric. 2020. "How to Spot--and Avoid--Dark Patterns on the Web" Wired. July 29, 2020. {{avail-free|https://www.wired.com/story/how-to-spot-avoid-dark-patterns/}}