Assignment, Due November 28

Social Media and History

Reading:

• Lauren Martin, “Archiving Tweets,” Cac.ophony.org. (Read post and comments).
• Jeff Howe, “The Rise of Crowdsourcing,” Wired, June 2006.
• Bill LeFurgy, “Crowdsourcing the Civil War: Insights Interview with Nicole Saylor,” The Signal: Digital Preservation, December 6, 2011.

Blog Post by Wednesday 8 am:

• Each group is responsible for posting its argument to the blog, and description of the evidence that will support this argument.
  • The group must then use the comments area of that post to discuss the various pieces of evidence you’ve found.
  • See this as an ongoing process that will extend through the end of the week and to which the professors will chime in, but it absolutely must be started by 8 am Wednesday, and all members of the group must be involved. This will factor into the grade for your final project.