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Class 1 (Tuesday April 4) — Introduction [Class Notes]

Class 2 (Thursday April 6) — Discussion: Authorship (Part I)

• William Wordsworth, "The Two-Part Prelude" (1798-99) [handout]
• Mark Phillipson, "The Romantic Audience Project: A Wiki Experiment," Romantic Pedagogy Commons (2004)

Class 3 (Tuesday April 11) — Discussion: Authorship (Part II) [Class Notes]

• Michel Foucault, excerpt from "What is an Author?" (1970) on "The Author Function"
• Martha Woodmansee, "On the Author Effect: Recovering Collectivity," Cardozo Arts and Entertainment Law Journal 10 (1992): 279-92 [handout]
• James Boyle, "Fencing Off Ideas: Enclosure and the Disappearance of the Public Domain" (2005) [in Ghosh]

Class 4 (Thursday April 13) — Workshop [assignment due] [Class Notes]

Learn-to-edit-the-wiki assignment due

Class 5 (Tuesday April 18) — Discussion: Collaboration [Class Notes]

• Rishab Aiyer Ghosh, "Why Collaboration is Important (Again)" (2005) [in Ghosh]
• Marilyn Strathern, "Imagined Collectivities and Multiple Authorship" (2005) [in Ghosh]
• Christopher Kelty, "Trust Among the Algorithms: Ownership, Identity, and the Collaborative Stewardship of Information" (2005) [in Ghosh]
• Rishab Aiyer Ghosh, "Cooking-Pot Markets and Balanced Value Flows" (2005) [in Ghosh]
• Jon R. Katzenbach and Douglas K. Smith, The Wisdom of Teams: Creating the High-Performance Organization (1994), pp. 1-8, 15-19 [handout]

Class 6 (Thursday April 20) — Workshop [Class Notes]

Team assignment for this class

Class 7 (Tuesday April 25) — Discussion: Collaborative or Distributed Creativity [Class Notes]

• James Leach, "Modes of Creativity and the Register of Ownership" (2005) [in Ghosh]
• Steven Johnson, Emergence: The Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities, and Software (2001), pp. 11-23 [handout]
• Paul Callahan, "What is the Game of Life?", Math.com
• Hybrot/MEART
  • Larry Bowie, "Georgia Tech Researchers Use Lab Cultures to Control Robotic Device" (2003)
  • David Cameron, "Rat-Brained Robot" (2002)
  • Science Daily, "Researchers Use Lab Cultures to Create Robotic 'Semi-Living Artist,'" (2003)
  • MEART Images, SymbioticA Collaborative Research Lab, University of Western Australia
• Summary of Douglas Hofstadter and Melanie Mitchell's Copycat Program, based on Hofstadter and the Fluid Analogies Research Group, Fluid Concepts and Creative Analogies (1995)

Team assignment for this date

Class 8 (Tuesday May 2) — Workshop [Class Notes]

Team assignment for this class

Class 9 (Thursday May 4) — Workshop

Class 10 (Tuesday May 9) — Workshop [assignment due] [Class Notes]

Research Report 1 due

Class 11 (Thursday May 11) — Workshop [Class Notes]

Class 12 (Tuesday May 16) — Workshop [assignment due] [Class Notes]

Edit another team member's Research Report due

Class 13 (Thursday May 18) — Workshop [Class Notes]

Class 14 (Tuesday May 23) — Discussion: The Wikipedia Controversy [Class Notes]

• Steven Musil, "Wikipedia's Woes," C/NET News.com, 9 December 2005
• John Seigenthaler, "A False Wikipedia 'Biography'," USA Today.com, 29 November 2005
• Daniel Terdiman, "Study: Wikipedia as Accurate as Britannica," C/Net News.com, 15 December 2005
• Ray Cha, "Another Round: Britannica versus Wikipedia," if:book, 31 March 2006
• Lisa Vaas, "Wikipedia Erects Accuracy Firewall," 19 December 2005
• Katie Hafner, "Growing Wikipedia Revises Its 'Anyone Can Edit' Policy," New York Times, 17 June 2006 (alternative site)
• Wikipedia List of Protected Pages

Class 15 (Thursday May 25) — Brainstorming Workshop [Class Notes]

• Brainstorming session to define tasks needed to improve the common site
• Distribution of tasks to students, who will work on them at their own pace (while keeping a Work Log)

Class 16 (Tuesday May 30) — Workshop [Class Notes]

Class 17 (Thursday June 1) — Workshop [assignment due] [Class Notes]

Research Report 2 due

Class 18 (Tuesday June 6) — Workshop [Class Notes]

Class 19 (Thursday June 8) — Workshop [Class Notes]

[Note: finished version of team topic page due on June 12.]

(Monday June 12) — [assignment due]

Finished version of team topic page due.