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1. A decade of teaching with Wikipedia

   On my Wikipedia user page, I keep a list of the Online Communities courses I’ve taught. The capstone project for the course is to …

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2. Telling others to ask AI

   A topic of my online community course is related to newcomers: is there such a thing as a stupid question? (We discuss RTFM, FAQ slaps …

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3. Python tools for Reddit queries, analysis, and messaging

   For the past two years I’ve been working on Reddit related questions such as:

   1. Do researchers’ ethical disguise of Redditors’ posts work?
   2. How many …

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4. Recommendations for the Ethical Disguise of Online Sources

   Some researchers of user-generated content make an effort to disguise the public comments they quote so as to not bring additional scrutiny to the comments …

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5. Reddit masking interview with Meredith Meacham

   1. In your paper, you wrote: “Quotations are slightly altered to reduce chances of deductive disclosure of individuals who made the posts or comments.” Is this …

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6. Locating research sources on Reddit

   This past year I’ve been working on how to treat online sources in research reports. When researchers disguise their sources, is it effective or …

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7. Disguising Reddit sources: The practices and efficacy of ethical research

   I had been vacillating on posting a draft because I wasn’t sure whether to call it: masking or disguising. Last week, while working on …

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8. Transcending academic book writing conventions and weaknesses

   I’ve published three books with an academic press, and with each I strove to be accessible to general readers. The last, Hacking Life, was …

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9. Pelican with pandoc and cache

   I use pandoc—and its flavor of markdown—to create my webpages, slides, PDFs, and Word files. Ironically, the only place I don’t use …

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