Editing Organizing and Governance in Online Communities (UW COM597 Winter 2025) (section)

=== Friday February 14: Ostrom Workshop Approaches ===

;Assignments:
* Complete and post your response to reading [https://canvas.uw.edu/courses/1808091/discussion_topics in the appropriate discussion forum] by 11:59pm on Thursday (see [[#Weekly Response Papers]])
* In [https://canvas.uw.edu/courses/1808091/discussion_topics the appropriate forum], ''briefly'' respond to at least two of your classmates and make sure to nominate at least two of their questions for group discussion by 12:00p (noon) on Friday (see [[#Weekly Response Papers]])

;Required readings:
* Ostrom, Elinor. 1990. ''Governing the Commons: The Evolution of Institutions for Collective Action''. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press. [Chapters 1-3 (pgs. 1-102)] {{avail-canvas|1=https://canvas.uw.edu/files/130424701/download?download_frd=1}}
* Hess, Charlotte, and Elinor Ostrom. 2011. “Introduction: An Overview of the Knowledge Commons.” In Understanding Knowledge as a Commons: From Theory to Practice, edited by Charlotte Hess and Elinor Ostrom, 3–26. The MIT Press. {{avail-canvas|1=https://canvas.uw.edu/files/130479475/download?download_frd=1}} ['''Note:''' You only need to read pages 3-14, not the summary/recap of the book.]
* Silberman, M. Six. 2016. “Reading Elinor Ostrom in Silicon Valley: Exploring Institutional Diversity on the Internet.” In ''Proceedings of the 2016 ACM International Conference on Supporting Group Work (GROUP ’16)'', 363–68. New York, NY, USA: Association for Computing Machinery. https://doi.org/10.1145/2957276.2957311. {{avail-uw|https://doi.org/10.1145/2957276.2957311}}
* Kollock, Peter, and Marc Smith. 1996. “Managing the Virtual Commons: Cooperation and Conflict in Computer Communities.” In Computer-Mediated Communication, 109. John Benjamins. https://www.jbe-platform.com/content/books/9789027285669-pbns.39.10kol. {{avail-canvas|1=https://canvas.uw.edu/files/130478560/download?download_frd=1}}
* Frey, Seth, P. M. Krafft, and Brian C. Keegan. 2019. “‘this Place Does What It Was Built for’: Designing Digital Institutions for Participatory Change.” ''Proceedings of the ACM Human-Computer Interaction''. 3 (CSCW): 32:1-32:31. https://doi.org/10.1145/3359134. {{avail-free|https://doi.org/10.1145/3359134}}
* Jhaver, Shagun, Seth Frey, and Amy X. Zhang. 2023. “Decentralizing Platform Power: A Design Space of Multi-Level Governance in Online Social Platforms.” Social Media + Society 9 (4): 20563051231207857. https://doi.org/10.1177/20563051231207857. {{avail-uw|https://doi.org/10.1177/20563051231207857}}

;Optional readings:
* Hardin, Garrett. 1968. “The Tragedy of the Commons.” ''Science'' 162 (3859): 1243–48. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.162.3859.1243. {{avail-uw|https://doi.org/10.1126/science.162.3859.1243}}
* Hess, Charlotte, and Elinor Ostrom. 2011. “A Framework for Analyzing the Knowledge Commons.” In Understanding Knowledge as a Commons: From Theory to Practice, edited by Charlotte Hess and Elinor Ostrom, 41–81. The MIT Press. {{avail-canvas|1=https://canvas.uw.edu/files/130479471/download?download_frd=1}}
* Frischmann, Brett M., Michael J. Madison, and Katherine Jo Strandburg. 2014. ''Governing Knowledge Commons''. Oxford University Press. ''[Available from Instructor]''
* Schneider, Nathan, Primavera De Filippi, Seth Frey, Joshua Z. Tan, and Amy X. Zhang. 2021. “Modular Politics: Toward a Governance Layer for Online Communities.” Proc. ACM Hum.-Comput. Interact. 5 (CSCW1): 16:1-16:26. https://doi.org/10.1145/3449090. {{avail-free|https://doi.org/10.1145/3449090}}
* Frey, Seth, Qiankun Zhong, Beril Bulat, William D. Weisman, Caitlyn Liu, Stephen Fujimoto, Hannah Wang, and Charles M. Schweik. 2022. “Governing Online Goods: Maturity and Formalization in Minecraft, Reddit, and World of Warcraft Communities.” Proc. ACM Hum.-Comput. Interact. 6 (CSCW2): 300:1-300:23. https://doi.org/10.1145/3555191. {{avail-free|https://doi.org/10.1145/3555191}}