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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?

  • 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?

  • 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)


Conclusions: how does the past influence our understanding of Wikipedia

W. April 17: Discussion

F. April 19: Discussion

W. April 24: Discussion



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