Wikipedia talk:Education program archive/University of California, San Diego (UCSD)/Comm 106I: Internet Industries (Spring 2014)/Course description

Apple, Google, and Amazon are all businesses emblematic of the internet industries and the forms of social life, media circulation, and data work they make possible. This class examines the claims made about these industries, the realities of the industries' workings, and what the differences between the claims and the reality mean for us. This class examines the internet industries and how they rewire our everyday lives: the way we socialize, the way work, changing forms of social stratification, and modes of resisting or reworking these trends. Students will learn to participate in debates about the role of the internet in everyday life through argument and self-directed research.

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We're writing to Wikipedia because our course is about the business, labor, and life of the internet industries, with a special focus on identifying the differences between ideologies surrounding high-tech and how high-tech really works. Because many Wikipedians are tech enthusiasts, I believe our social science students will bring an underrepresented and important perspective to Wikipedia.

(This assignment is modeled on "Improving Gender & Science in Wikipedia" by Kavita Philip, which is modeled after "Improving Chemistry in Wikipedia" by Anne McNeil.)

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