Wikipedia talk:Education program archive/Duke University/WIKIPEDIA AND ITS ANCESTORS: Rethinking Encyclopedic Knowledge in the Digital Age (Spring 2013)/Timeline

Schedule
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?


 * Reagle, Joseph. Good Faith Collaboration: The Culture of Wikipedia (chapter 7) http://reagle.org/joseph/2010/gfc/chapter-7.html#p24


 * 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?


 * Due: experiment in distant reading (through  http://voyant-tools.org/)


 * 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:


 * http://www.cbc.ca/player/Radio/More+Shows/ReCivilization/Extended+interviews/ID/2188841998/


 * https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SMF2lbODcyM

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)


 * http://encyclopedie.uchicago.edu/ (Readings TBD)

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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