Wikipedia:Wiki Ed/Northwestern University/Online communities and crowds (Spring 2025)
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- Course name
- Online communities and crowds
- Institution
- Northwestern University
- Instructor
- Aaron Shaw
- Wikipedia Expert
- Brianda (Wiki Ed)
- Subject
- Communication Studies
- Course dates
- 2025-04-01 00:00:00 UTC – 2025-06-17 23:59:59 UTC
- Approximate number of student editors
- 45
Online communities & crowds are fundamental to how people communicate, work, play, learn, socialize, and more. However, they can also threaten our well-being and undermine critical social institutions as well as the integrity of public discourse. This course seeks to understand online communities & crowds. It does so through an interdisciplinary inquiry into a set of practical challenges that confront online communities & crowds today. When and why do some efforts to overcome these challenges succeed? What insights and expectations can we draw from these experiences?