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A sample of possible final project topics:
* Blogging and citizen media sites - [http://globalvoicesonline.org Global Voices], reddit, spot.us, digg or slashdot, or a hyperlocal news organization
 
* Blogging and citizen media sites - global voices, spot.us, digg or slashdot, or a hyperlocal news organization
* Facebook groups
* Facebook groups
* Flickr groups
* Flickr groups
* Bulletin boards, usenet groups, or 4chan
* Some aspect of microblogging: Twitter, Tumblr, etc.
* Education and tech organization – OLPC or Sugarlabs
* Bulletin boards, usenet groups, forums, or 4chan
* E-government and public engagement; eg, fcc, open gov
* Education and tech organizations: OLPC or Sugarlabs or [http://openeducation.ideascale.com/a/panel.do?id=7030 OpenEducation]
* E-government and public engagement; e.g., FCC, open gov
* A government transparency organization
* A government transparency organization
* An online political movement - moveon.org, online versions of the tea party
* An online political movement - moveon.org, online versions of the tea party
* A gaming site, eg WoW
* A gaming site, eg World of Warcraft, Farmville, etc.
* A community exchange site such couchsurfing.com
* A community exchange site such as couchsurfing.com or airbnb.com
* A music sharing site
* A music sharing site - Grooveshark, Soundcloud, MySpace
* A review and recommendation site such as yelp.com
* A review and recommendation site such as Yelp
* Location services/games: FourSquare, Scvngr, etc.
* Question services: Aardvark, Quora
* Open knowledge consortium
* Open knowledge consortium
* Conservapedia -- now that we've spent so much time on Wikipedia -- lots of nice normative/governance questions here
* Different language communities on Wikipedia
* The digital chicken problem on Second Life -- lots of trolls/vandals/identity questions
* Conservapedia -- lots of nice normative/governance questions here
http://ignite.oreilly.com/2009/12/patrick-davison-and-the-plight-of-the-digital-chickens.html
* And, finally, ChatRoulette, whose founder just went live -- questions around anonymity/forced anonymity/site organization
http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/02/13/chatroulettes-founder-17-introduces-himself/

Latest revision as of 13:30, 26 January 2012

  • Blogging and citizen media sites - Global Voices, reddit, spot.us, digg or slashdot, or a hyperlocal news organization
  • Facebook groups
  • Flickr groups
  • Some aspect of microblogging: Twitter, Tumblr, etc.
  • Bulletin boards, usenet groups, forums, or 4chan
  • Education and tech organizations: OLPC or Sugarlabs or OpenEducation
  • E-government and public engagement; e.g., FCC, open gov
  • A government transparency organization
  • An online political movement - moveon.org, online versions of the tea party
  • A gaming site, eg World of Warcraft, Farmville, etc.
  • A community exchange site such as couchsurfing.com or airbnb.com
  • A music sharing site - Grooveshark, Soundcloud, MySpace
  • A review and recommendation site such as Yelp
  • Location services/games: FourSquare, Scvngr, etc.
  • Question services: Aardvark, Quora
  • Open knowledge consortium
  • Different language communities on Wikipedia
  • Conservapedia -- lots of nice normative/governance questions here
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