Wikipedia:Wiki Ed/University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign/New Media, Culture and Society (Fall 2016)

Despite persistent utopian promises that ever faster and “smarter” computing will make our lives better and easier, technology remains influenced by social and cultural practices at every level. From the infrastructural to the intimate, technology is designed with specific audiences and aims. In this course, you will learn how to interpret how these messages about technology are communicated in and through media. This means that you will be asked to consider not only what is represented in the media texts that we will review throughout this semester, you will also learn how to interpret media forms as technology embedded in culture and society.

Week 1
Welcome to your Wikipedia project's course timeline. This page will guide you through the Wikipedia project for your course. Be sure to check with your instructor to see if there are other pages you should be following as well.

Your course has also been assigned a Wikipedia Content Expert. Check your Talk page for notes from them. You can also reach them through the &quot;Get Help&quot; button on this page.

To get started, please review the following handouts:


 * Editing Wikipedia pages 1–5
 * Evaluating Wikipedia


 * Create an account and join this course page, using the enrollment link your instructor sent you.
 * It's time to dive into Wikipedia. Below, you'll find the first set of online trainings you'll need to take. New modules will appear on this timeline as you get to new milestones. Be sure to check back and complete them! Incomplete trainings will be reflected in your grade.
 * When you finish the trainings, practice by introducing yourself to a classmate on that classmate’s Talk page.

Week 2
Choose an article. Read through it, thinking about ways to improve the language, such as fixing grammatical mistakes. Then, make the appropriate changes. You don’t need to contribute new information to the article.