Wikipedia:Wiki Ed/MacEwan University/GEND 419 (Fall 2021)

&quot;Digital technology plays a central and increasingly complex role in our culture. Its issues require careful study, including assumptions about its ubiquity, neutrality, and stability. This course will address the following questions: How are gender identities constituted and changed by technologically-mediated environments and technological artifacts themselves? How does technology change, and how can you create change with technology? We will consider how intersectional feminism has informed technological practices and artifacts produced in our historical moment and the past to develop our understanding of the reciprocal relationships among technology and social categories as gender, sexuality, race, ethnicity, and class. Our topics will include the digital divide, biotechnology, reproductive technology, surveillance, social media, home technology, and entertainment technology. Throughout the term, we will analyze writing about technology, critique digital sites and tools, and gain hands-on experience with digital creation. This is an interdisciplinary course with a foundation in the humanities. No previous coursework on or expertise in technology is required.&quot;

Week 1
Welcome to your Wikipedia assignment's course timeline. This page guides you through the steps you'll need to complete for your Wikipedia assignment, with links to training modules and your classmates' work spaces.

Your course has been assigned a Wikipedia Expert. You can reach them through the Get Help button at the top of this page.

Resources:


 * Editing Wikipedia, pages 1–5
 * Evaluating Wikipedia

Create an account and join this course page, using the enrollment link your instructor sent you. (Because of Wikipedia's technical restraints, you may receive a message that you cannot create an account. To resolve this, please try again off campus or the next day.)

Week 2
This week, everyone should have a Wikipedia account.

Week 3
Resource: Editing Wikipedia, page 6

Biographies

Books

Cultural Anthropology

Environmental Sciences

Films

History

LGBT+ Studies

Political Science

Psychology

Sociology

Women's Studies

Week 5
Reach out to your Wikipedia Expert if you have questions using the Get Help button at the top of this page.

Resource: Editing Wikipedia, pages 7–9

Week 6
Everyone has begun writing their article drafts.

Now that you've improved your draft based on others' feedback, it's time to move your work live - to the &quot;mainspace.&quot;

Resource: Editing Wikipedia, page 13

Week 7
It's the final week to develop your article.


 * Read Editing Wikipedia page 15 to review a final check-list before completing your assignment.
 * Don't forget that you can ask for help from your Wikipedia Expert at any time!

Everyone should have finished all of the work they'll do on Wikipedia, and be ready for grading.