Wikipedia talk:Education program archive/Duke University/WIKIPEDIA AND ITS ANCESTORS: Rethinking Encyclopedic Knowledge in the Digital Age (Spring 2013)/Timeline
Schedule
[edit]What is an Encyclopedia?
F Jan.11: Intro: How do Encyclopedias filter information?
- Ex: The entry “women” in Britannica/Wikipedia/Conservapedia
W Jan. 16: How do we search for information? Wikipedia in the Age of Information Overload
- Due: Searching Activity
- F Jan. 18: How do digital immigrants use Wikipedia?
- Due: interview activity
Putting Encyclopedias in Context: the 20TH century
W Jan. 23: Encyclopedias and race discrimination
- Britannica (1911) "Negro” entry.
- Du Bois, William. Encyclopedia of the Negro (1945), (Introduction).
- Malcom X, Autobiography. (selection)
F Jan. 25:A Timeline
- Burke, Peter. A Social History of Knowledge,II. (Chapter 8)
- Journal 1 (Jan 27): analysis of the interview
SECTION 2
What is Wikipedia ?
W Jan.30: Intro to Wikipedia Prof. Jane Richardson.
- Ayers, Phoebe. How Wikipedia Works.(chapter 2)
- Watch TED lecture: “Jimmy Wales: How a ragtag band created Wikipedia”
F Feb.1: How to search and evaluate an article.
- Ayers, Phoebe. How Wikipedia Works.(chapter 3-4)
The Discourse on Wikipedia
W Feb.6: Digital Collectivism or Soft Dictatorship?
- Reagle, Joseph. Good Faith Collaboration: The Culture of Wikipedia (chapter 7) http://reagle.org/joseph/2010/gfc/chapter-7.html#p24
- Lanier, Jarone. Digital Maoism: The Hazards of the New Online Collectivism
- Due: bring in class a stub
F: Feb.8: Wisdom of Crowds or Socio-Technical System?
- Shirky, Clay. “Institutions vs. collaboration” on TED
- James. The wisdom of Crowds (chapter 2-3-4)
- Sabine Niederer and José van Dijck. Wisdom of the crowd or technicity of content? Wikipedia as a sociotechnical System.
- Origgi,Gloria. Collective Quality. How to design collective standards of knowledge?
W. Feb. 13:Tracking the debate on Wikipedia through Google news and library database
- Due: searching activity
F. Feb. 15: Wikipedia on Wikipedia?
- Due: experiment in distant reading (through http://voyant-tools.org/)
- Journal 2: Febr. 16: what is you entry and how you intend to expand it
Wikipedia as learning Community
W. Feb. 20: What is a learning community?
- Interviews with Sue Gardner:
F. Feb.22: Workshop with the librarian: Dr. Heidi Madden
- http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Training/For_students
W. Feb. 27: What is a learning community?
- Due:searching activity
F. March 1: Workshop with the Data Visualization Expert: Dr. Angela Zoss
- Paul Michel. Prolegomena to a Universal Grammar of the Visualization of Knowledge
- Journal 3: Febr 1 report on the meeting with the librarian.
SECTION 3
Too Much to Know: Information Overload in the Renaissance
W. March 6: Workshop Special Collection
- Blair, Ann. Too Much to Know: Managing Scholarly Information Before the Modern Age. Pages TBD
- Commented Bibliography (3 books +5 articles)
F. March 8: Workshop Special Collection.
- Blair, Ann. Too Much to Know: Managing Scholarly Information Before the Modern Age. Pages TBD
Spring Break: March 10-15
Francis Bacon and the Forest of Knowledge
W. March 20: A Culture of Facts
- Shapin,Steven. A Social History of Truth: Civility and Science in Seventeenth-Century England. (chapter 1)
F. March 22: The New Atlantis: a Learning Community
- Bacon, Francis. New Atlantis.Pages TBD
An Encyclopedia for the Revolution
W. March 27:What is the Enlightenment?
- Chartier, Roger. The Cultural Origins of the French Revolution. (chapter 1)
F March 29: The Making of the Encyclopédie.
- Darton,Robert. Business of Enlightenment: A Publishing History of the Encyclopedie.(chapter 9).
W.April 3: The Project’s Vision: Encyclopédie vs Wikipedia.
- D'Alembert, Jean L. Preliminary Discourse to the Encyclopedia of Diderot.
- meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Visions
W.April 5: The Project’s Vision: Encyclopédie vs Wikipedia.
- Alembert, Jean. Preliminary Discourse to the Encyclopedia of Diderot.
- meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Visions
- Journal 5
The Encyclopédie as Material and Digital object
W. April 10: Exlporing the Encyclopédie with the Project ARTFL
- Brewer, Daniel, and Julie C. Hayes. Using the Encyclopédie: Ways of Knowing, Ways of Reading.
F. April 12: Analyzing the Historical Edition (visit to Special Collection)
- http://encyclopedie.uchicago.edu/ (Readings TBD)
Conclusions: how does the past influence our understanding of Wikipedia
W. April 17: Discussion
F. April 19: Discussion
W. April 24: Discussion