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Karen Louise Smith
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Associate Professor, Department of Communication, Popular Culture & Film at Brock University. Personal account, reposts ≠ endorsements, and find me at http://karenlouisesmith.net/wp/
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In September my #Comm3P90 Advanced Topics in Digital Culture course at @brockucpcf.bsky.social begins an #OpenEducation adventure!

We will use WikiEdu to improve @wikipedia.org articles.

Here's a sneak peek of some articles that I hope student teams will improve from "C" quality status...
Listed Wikipedia articles currently "C" class are Agentic AI, Doomscrolling, Enshitification, Extreme users, Filter bubble and Geofence
August 17, 2025 at 11:32 PM
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The 20th anniversary edition of the Journal of Community Informatics is out. I have a co-authored piece with Shade and Clement titled "Revisiting the Access Rainbow" openjournals.uwaterloo.ca/index.php/Jo...
Access Rainbow: band 1 carriage facilities, band 2 devices, band 3 software tools, band 4 content/services, band 5 service/access provision, band 6 literacy/social facilitation, band 7 governance
December 16, 2024 at 4:13 PM