Wikipedia:Wiki Ed/Eastern Michigan University/Communication and Artificial Intelligence (Winter 2023)

This is a Special Topics Graduate Seminar course that examines how all forms of Artificial Intelligence (algorithms, chatbots, predictive text, editing software, robots, GenAI, and other technologies) impact human communication. We will read a collection of chapters from the book &quot;Communication and Artificial Intelligence&quot; and academic articles on various AI programs. Our course will have both seminar and &quot;lab&quot; days throughout the term. We meet once a week for 3 hours. The seminar days will include reading and discussing research from Communication scholars and artificial intelligence. The lab days regard in-class activities and longer term projects that I can supervise in person. I would like the WikiPedia project to be included as a major assignment that we will work on during our lab days. We will seek to examine biographies, theories, and other articles that are on topics directly homegrown in Communication studies and closely related fields. As this is my first time teaching the class and working with Wikipedia, I would likely break these into a series of small editing assignments to update pages that are on subjects I know well enough that I can supervise for accuracy. While the theme of the course has AI included, we will not be using Generative AI for writing but will be examining several technologies to inform us in how we create edited sections. The AI technologies that will be used to inform our writing and that students must consider will be grammar editing software/suggested edits, chatbot assistance to find sources to write from, and other items that inform their writing rather than replace it.