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[edit] Dig Movements Wiki

This wiki project supports the Spring 2008 academic program, Digitizing Movements. The program explores the current uses of the world wide web, and the implications of that use, for contemporary social movements. We use readings and ideas from history, new media studies, academic computing, and communications to consider the past, present and future of social movements in ways beyond the competence of those disciplines alone.

[edit] Goal and Rationale

The goal of the Dig Movements wiki is the creation of a usable, dynamic, collaborative record of what our program community learns together. We chose the Wikimedia application because its database structure provides strong tools for the organization and integration of our research and writing into a single body of knowledge.

[edit] Content

The content of the wiki is currently under construction. It is comprised of the work done so far on the individual term projects of our members. Each contributor is writing a traditional "print conventions" research paper built on the foundation of thesis or argument, evidence from sources, and a persuasive conclusion. Within the conventional research and writing process, students will use the wiki to organize and share scholarly sources, new ideas, and new knowledge as those are uncovered or born. At the end of that process, each student in turn will publish his or her final paper on the wiki as substantive, academic content.

[edit] Progress and Documentation

Students will build their term projects through incremental, weekly assignments in seminar reading, library research, planning and writing a college research paper, web research and correspondence, and digital imaging. These assignments will structure their progress toward completion of learning and performance goals in both conventional and digital humanities. The stepwise results of these assignments eventually will provide, through their presence and ready access on the wiki, the documentation, illustration, and integration of final papers.

[edit] Information Architecture

The strategies for organizing content and knowledge on the wiki are reflected in its nav bar on the upper left. The three links below Main reflect the division of students and their research into groups with specific analytical concerns: Social Movements, Online Activism, and We The Media. Behind the Categories link, one can find a comprehensive index to the wiki content as a whole. On that index is the Program Admin link, which provides navigation to a wiki project overview, as well as student instructions, rules of wiki etiquette, intuitive explanations of wiki coding syntax, and similar supporting documents.