Your next freewrite, due Wednesday, is to write about Wikipedia. I want you to go to Wikipedia and find an entry and look at its history page. Print out the history page to be handed in with your assignment.
Write a 3-4 page analysis of Wikipedia, using that entry as a focal point. I want you to relate your analysis on Wikipedia to the Stuart Moulthrop article "You Want a Revolution," especially as concerns "destabilizing social hierarchies" and the "four basic questions that could be asked about any invention" that he pulls from Marshall McLuhan.
This is not just a freewrite on your feelings about Wikipedia; you must use quotes (at least five) from the Moulthrop essay as well as the New Yorker article in your paper to back up your points. I realize the Moulthrop essay is a tough one but try your best. The general gist is answering the question: does Wikipedia support Moulthrop's contentions about hypertext?
I've put copies of the New Yorker article in my box in the ARHU office so pick it up there if you were not at last class.
Also, I will be downgrading these assignments from now on if they are handed in late, so please get them in on Wednesday.
Lastly, several of you have not handed me ideas for your final papers, nor have you put them on your blog. Do this asap. (Ben, your blog doesn't seem to be up anymore... please check the URL on the website).
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