Wikipedia talk:Education program archive/University of Toronto/INF-KMD Knowledge, Media, Culture and Society (SP14)/Course description

This course seeks to explore several questions:


 * 1) What are some of the major issues preoccupying digital media and ICT scholars today?
 * 2) To what extent are ICTs changing things for the better? For the worse?
 * 3) What roles do the major players (industry, government, NGOs, the media, the public) have in ensuring a net benefit?
 * 4) What can digital activism do to effect change?

Wikipedia Project Description
This project will connect students to Wikipedia’s Global Education Program. Each student will complete 5 tasks, culminating in a 1,500 word Wikipedia encyclopedia entry posted online by April 10, 2014. The following is the list of tasks to be completed. Each task is worth points that add up to 30%.

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