Monday

• Collect mini-essays
• Discuss readings:
  • Boyd and Hargittai "Facebook Privacy Settings: Who Cares"
    • Reactions? persuasive? well-written? interesting?
    • Audience
    • Format (tone, organization)
    • Method / sources and reliability
    • Good "research questions"?
    • Issues for discussion, further research: reasons for "exposure"; changes since 2010;
      . . . ___ . . .?
      
      
  • Davidow "The Internet is the Greatest Legal Facilitator of Inequality in Human History
    • Reactions? persuasive? well-written? interesting?
    • Audience
    • Format (tone, organization)
    • Method / sources and reliability
    • Good thesis / research question?
    • Issues for discussion, further research: . . . ___ . . .?
    • Group Discussion of Davidow

Homework:
Read Wikiality Annenburg Classroom. Think about your use of Wikipedia. When should it be used and how? Is it acceptable for school or professional work? Contribute your thoughts toward an IUP Wikipedia Use Policy

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Wednesday

• Assessing reliability of sources - Wikipedia as an example

• Wikiality Annenburg Classroom (Colbert - Wikiality Clip )
• Internet Encyclopaedias Go Head to Head, Nature 15 December 2005. Web.
• Liu, Alan. "Student Wikipedia Use Policy." Department of English, University of California Santa Barbara. 15 April 2007. Web.
• History and Talk pages. The "process" by which an entry is created.
• Do Wikipedia standards like "Neutral Point of View" and requiring the use of "reliable sources" give you confidence?

Wiki-entry. All students will experiment with Wikipedia; making a significant contribution can become an optional graded item for the class. The goal is to get some first-hand insight on how Wikpedia entries are created, changed, and quality-controlled.

Homework: Get involved with Wikipedia by exploring entries you know and care about, choosing one, and then:

1. contributing edits to a page;
2. participating in a discussion about edits to a page, such as resolving a dispute;
3. contributing to the "backlog" of wikipedia work;
4. or creating a new page. You might want to review Wikipedia's "notability standards."

Document your efforts in your project area with a page called My-Wikipedia-Work. I recommend you create a user-name with Wikipedia so you can track your work. Your project -page documentation might include the responses of other Wikipedians. You can also reflect upon the process. (You may choose to make this one of your optional pieces for the portfolio; see syllabus).