We are extending the deadline for your final paper to Friday May 11th, 4pm.
Please send it to us no later than that time.
Author Archives: Jenna
Office Hours RRR Week
Office Hours during RRR Week:
Prof. Burrell – Tue, Thu, 11-12:30 (during our class time)
- will NOT be holding office hours during my usual Tue 4-6pm time
Stuart Geiger – Tue – 1:30-3:30
Elisa Oreglia – by appointment
Google’s Search Anthropologist
In case you missed it in SFGate a couple of weeks back. An article about Dan Russell who works for Google, trying to get a better understanding of user behavior in relation to Google’s search interfaces.
The Gender Gap and Wikipedia
Stuart has passed long these links to those of you who raised interest in this topic last Thursday:
A good introduction/overview to the problem with lots of links:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Gender_gap
Two of the most recent research papers on the gender gap:
(both are by all-male research teams, as has been pointed out)
http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2038560
http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2038561
The Teahouse, a great new initiative:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Teahouse
The Wikimedia foundation’s gender gap mailing list:
http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/gendergap/
A much earlier effort to provide an off-Wikipedia space to discuss and
plan around the gender gap:
http://wikichix.org/wiki/WikiChix
Assignment 3, deadline extended
We have extended the deadline for assignment 3 from Tuesday to Thursday of next week.
Please have your assignment ready to turn in at the beginning of class on 4/12.
Wikipedia is Not
Link to the “What Wikipedia is Not” page Stuart mentioned in class.
Assignment 3 worksheet handed out
New Media and Society, March 2012 issue
This month’s issue of the journal New Media and Society has a number of articles relevant to some of your final paper topics. The articles cover YouTube memes, eReaders, texting behavior, norms (and their violation) on Facebook, etc. Check out the Table of Contents.
For Thursday
In preparation for our in class activity on Thursday. You should have exchanged Part II of your assignment with someone else in class. Take a look at the final paper topic of your partner and see if you can answer these questions:
1) what is the problem space?
2) what argument is this student making?
3) do the references/sources seem relevant and specific to the final paper topic?
Also, take a look at the outlines you generated last Thursday available here.
Assignment 2 handed back in class
We handed back assignment 2 in class today.
Also see our feedback on assignment 2.