Assignments for Monday, Oct. 25
Assignments due on Wednesday, Oct. 27:
- In class I reviewed the exercise for this week — it is available online: Wikipedia Exercise, Part 2 of 3.
- If you have questions about the Wikipedia Exercise, contact our Wikipedia Ambassadors: Dick Clark, Michael Chen, and Ryan Malloy. (My Wikipedia user page is here.) You can email them or request a mentor from this page on the Wikipedia Public Policy Project.
- Readings for Wednesday:
- Gina Glantz’s bio
- Small Change: Why the revolution will not be tweeted. by Malcolm Gladwell, from The New Yorker: http://nyr.kr/9edwPK
- What Gladwell Got Wrong: Beyond “Like Button” Activism by Sam Graham-Felsen, from The Huffington Post: http://bit.ly/clcneg
- Twitter and Activism by Biz Stone from The Atlantic: http://bit.ly/c3ZFPn
- Malcolm Gladwell’s Response to Critics of His New Yorker Piece on Social Media by Mike Isaac from Forbes.com: http://bit.ly/cFKmJC