Editing Online Communities (UW COM481 Fall 2024) (section)

=== Monday October 14: Micro: Commitment and Lock-in ===
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'''Lectures:'''  (watch ''before'' class)

* [https://uw.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=6c55941b-6e06-4e30-bd1c-b205005060ec Commitment II (1/2): Lockin] [19m12s] (Requires Canvas Access)
* [https://uw.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=08b6589f-7ea3-4fc1-8517-b205005060f6 Commitment II (2/2): Engagement versus Commitment] [9m04s] (Requires Canvas Access)

'''Resources:'''

* [https://canvas.uw.edu/files/125012374/download?download_frd=1 Reading Note #4] (Requires Canvas access)
* [https://canvas.uw.edu/files/124963074/download?download_frd=1 Lecture Slides] (Requires Canvas access)
* [Case Boards] (Requires Canvas access) {{forthcoming}}

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

* [[#Component 1: The Theory and Practice of Online Communities|BSOC]], Chapter 3, pg 102-112 (Section 4)
* [Case] Romano, Aja. 2018. “How Facebook Made It Impossible to Delete Facebook.” ''Vox''. March 22, 2018. {{avail-free|1=https://www.vox.com/culture/2018/3/22/17146776/delete-facebook-how-to-quit-difficult}}
* [Case] Feiner, Lauren. 2021. “Facebook Expands the Types of Data Users Can Transfer to Other Services." ''CNBC''. April 19, 2021. {{avail-free|1=https://www.cnbc.com/2021/04/19/facebook-expands-the-types-of-data-users-can-transfer-to-other-services.html}}
* [Case] Choudary, Sangeet Paul. 2014. “Reverse Network Effects: Why Today’s Social Networks Can Fail as They Grow Larger.” ''Wired'', March 13, 2014. {{avail-free|1=https://web.archive.org/web/20240606203338/https://www.wired.com/insights/2014/03/reverse-network-effects-todays-social-networks-can-fail-grow-larger/}}
* [Case] Mir, Rory, and Ross Schulman. 2024. “What’s the Difference Between Mastodon, Bluesky, and Threads?” ''Electronic Frontier Foundation''. June 18, 2024. {{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. {{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. {{avail-free|https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/fewer-people-using-elon-musks-x-struggles-keep-users-rcna144115}}

'''Optional Readings:'''

*  [[#Component 1: The Theory and Practice of Online Communities|BSOC]], Chapter 3, pg 112-115 (Section 4)
* 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}}
* [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/}}