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

=== Friday January 10: Introduction ===

;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:

This pair of two articles on peer production:
* Coase, Ronald H. 1937. “The Nature of the Firm.” ''Economica'' 4 (16): 386–405. https://doi.org/10.2307/2626876. {{avail-uw|https://doi.org/10.2307/2626876}}
* Benkler, Yochai. 2002. “Coase’s Penguin, or, Linux and the Nature of the Firm.” ''Yale Law Journal'' 112 (3): 369–446. https://doi.org/10.2307/1562247. {{avail-uw|https://doi.org/10.2307/1562247}}

These articles on "community" and it's relationships to organizations, especially in online spaces:

* Bruckman, Amy. 2006. “A New Perspective on ‘Community’ and Its Implications for Computer-Mediated Communication Systems.” In ''CHI ’06 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems'', 616–21. Montréal, Québec, Canada: ACM. https://doi.org/10.1145/1125451.1125579. {{avail-free|https://doi.org/10.1145/1125451.1125579}}
* Hampton, Keith N. 2016. “Persistent and Pervasive Community: New Communication Technologies and the Future of Community.” ''American Behavioral Scientist'' 60 (1): 101–24. https://doi.org/10.1177/0002764215601714. {{avail-uw|https://doi.org/10.1177/0002764215601714}}
* O’Mahony, Siobhan, and Karim R. Lakhani. 2011. “Organizations in the Shadow of Communities.” In ''Communities and Organizations'', 33:3–36. Emerald Group Publishing Limited. https://doi.org/10.1108/S0733-558X(2011)0000033004. {{avail-free|1=https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1873989}}

;Optional reading:

* Oldenburg, Ray. 1989. ''The Great Good Place: Cafes, Coffee Shops, Community Centers, Beauty Parlors, General Stores, Bars, Hangouts and How They Get You Through the Day''. First Edition. New York: Paragon House. [Chapter 1 ("The Problem of Place in America") and Chapter 2 ("The Character of Third Places")]  {{avail-canvas|1=https://canvas.uw.edu/files/128963059/download?download_frd=1}}