Each group will produce a short report (~two pages) discussing how one critical, book-length text might inform and shape our production of the Online Community Advocacy Project. Groups will select their own text, and each text may only be selected by one group. Potential options you might consider include:

• And Then There's This, Bill Wasik
• Connected, Nicholas Christakis and James Fowler
• Here Comes Everybody, Clay Shirky
• The Wealth of Networks, Yochai Benkler
• Six Degrees, Duncan Watts
• Linked, Albert-Laszlo Barabasi
• Bursts, Albert-Laszlo Barabasi
• Crowdsourcing, Jeff Howe
• Markets, Mobs & Mayhem, Robert Menschel
• The Smart Swarm, Peter Miller
• Viral Spiral, David Bollier

Each group's report should provide an overview of the work, but the main issue is how it can help us with this project. What applicable information, strategies, or techniques may be drawn from it? How does it change the way we view the topic?

These short reports will be shared with the class. Excellent Critical Resource Write-ups will provide thorough, concise overviews of their corresponding works and insightful information about how they might inform and shape our projects. Excellent critical resource analyses will be in a finished, polished format, including appropriate grammar and mechanics.

Notes:
Here Comes Everybody

• Create a social tool without defining it too strictly.
• View failures as opportunities to shape your campaign.
• Using multiple, appropriate technologies (as evidenced in the example of the stolen phone).

• Utilize existing personal connections

• Humor is an effective strategy
• Keeping things busy and short
• YouTube as a means to make your campaign visual and active

• Positive utilizations of mob mentality or groupthink

• The influence of public commitments