Wikipedia:Wiki Ed/Whittier College/Digital Labor - Race, Gender, Technology in Literature and Film (January)

“Digital Labor: Race, Gender, &amp; Technology in Literature &amp; Film&quot; will examine the work of “digital technologies.” We will recuperate the labor of such women as Ada Lovelace, Hedy Lamaar, Grace Hopper, the unnamed women who work in electronics manufacturing industries worldwide, or the millions of women who produce and circulate content that produces revenue for corporations. We will interrogate long-held understandings of “technology”, “the digital”, and the labor integral to these spaces and infrastructures. Students will develop a foundation in media studies, technology studies, and feminist studies, which has a stronghistory in recognizing and problematizing intimate and domestic “women’s work.”

Students will be engaging with critical scholarship as well as primary cultural texts ranging from literature, film, new media, journalism, etc. Each mode of scholarship and production will inform the others, and students must be prepared to actively contribute to and maintain an in-person and online classroom community, while also collaboratively producing their own critical digital texts.

Week 1

 * Overview of the course
 * Introduction to how Wikipedia will be used in the course
 * Understanding Wikipedia as a community, we'll discuss its expectations and etiquette.

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Handout: Editing Wikipedia


 * Create an account and then complete the online training for students. During this training, you will make edits in a sandbox and learn the basic rules of Wikipedia.

Week 2

 * Review pages 4-7 of the Evaluating Wikipedia brochure. This will give you a good, brief overview of what to look for in other articles, and what other people will look for in your own.
 * Evaluate an existing Wikipedia article related to the class, and leave suggestions for improving it on the article's talk page.
 * A few questions to consider (don't feel limited to these):
 * Is each fact referenced with an appropriate, reliable reference?
 * Is everything in the article relevant to the article topic? Is there anything that distracted you?
 * Is the article neutral? Are there any claims, or frames, that appear heavily biased toward a particular position?
 * Where does the information come from? Are these neutral sources? If biased, is that bias noted?
 * Are there viewpoints that are overrepresented, or underrepresented?
 * Check a few citations. Do the links work? Is there any close paraphrasing or plagiarism in the article?
 * Is any information out of date? Is anything missing that could be added?

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Resources: Evaluating Wikipedia,


 * Choose one article, identify ways in which you can improve and correct its language and grammar, and make the appropriate changes. (You do not need to alter the article's content.)

Week 3

 * Add 1–2 sentences of new information, backed up with a citation to an appropriate source, to a Wikipedia article related to the class.