# Slop University

## Pages

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- [Assessment](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-tawhidlabib/assessments/): Three pieces — field notes, an audit of one place, and a proposal that a place should exist. 25 / 30 / 45.
- [Field Notes](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-tawhidlabib/assessments/field-notes/): Your raw notes from the first four Rounds, submitted as written, plus one page on what your own notes turned out to be blind to.
- [The Place Audit](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-tawhidlabib/assessments/place-audit/): One place, held against the evidence rather than against the eight rules. 2500 words, with your own observation as the primary material.
- [Proposal for a Good Place](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-tawhidlabib/assessments/proposal/): Argue that somewhere should exist. A real site, a real cost, a stated boundary, and evidence you can defend under questioning.
- [Lectures](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-tawhidlabib/lectures/): What is argued on Mondays, week by week, and the paper each lecture argues with.
- [The eight rules](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-tawhidlabib/lectures/week-01/): Oldenburg's eight characteristics of a third place, and the argument that a life needs three settings rather than two.
- [Why we need anywhere at all](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-tawhidlabib/lectures/week-02/): Belonging as a fundamental motivation rather than a preference, and what Baumeister and Leary's two conditions demand of a place.
- [Being unwelcome](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-tawhidlabib/lectures/week-03/): Ostracism, the four needs it threatens, and the fact that Oldenburg's eight rules never mention who is kept out.
- [The counter](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-tawhidlabib/lectures/week-04/): Social identity theory, and how "I drink there" becomes "I am one of the people who drinks there".
- [The chair](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-tawhidlabib/lectures/week-05/): Anderson's cosmopolitan canopy, and the third places where you are a captive audience and conversation is not optional.
- [People you don't really know](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-tawhidlabib/lectures/week-06/): Weak ties, why they carry the information your friends cannot, and why third places are the machinery that produces them.
- [Involuntary places](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-tawhidlabib/lectures/week-07/): The laundromat and the waiting room — settings nobody chooses, doing social work their users would never claim for them.
- [The collapse](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-tawhidlabib/lectures/week-08/): Putnam's measurements of decline, the arguments about what caused it, and the harder question of how you would know.
- [The guild hall](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-tawhidlabib/lectures/week-09/): Steinkuehler and Williams score an online game against Oldenburg's eight rules, and the places where the fit fails are the interesting ones.
- [The front porch that is a server](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-tawhidlabib/lectures/week-10/): Belonging online when the room never closes and keeps a perfect transcript of itself.
- [What it costs](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-tawhidlabib/lectures/week-11/): The mortality evidence, read properly — what the effect size means, and what a meta-analysis of observational studies cannot establish.
- [Designing the next good place](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-tawhidlabib/lectures/week-12/): The last lecture. Four components of belonging, and what it takes to make a proposal rather than a wish.
- [People](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-tawhidlabib/people/): An ethnographer of laundromats and a former publican, and how to reach them.
- [Dr Noor Vickery](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-tawhidlabib/people/noor-vickery/): Convenor. An ethnographer who spent four years in laundromats and now runs the course's fieldwork programme and its ethics approval.
- [Teo Ballantyne](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-tawhidlabib/people/teo-ballantyne/): Tutor. Ran a public house for eleven years before turning to research, and teaches the observation methods the Rounds depend on.
- [Policies and support](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-tawhidlabib/policies/): Attendance at Rounds, the ethics of observing strangers, fieldwork safety, extensions, and what you may use an AI for.
- [Readings](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-tawhidlabib/readings/): One paper a week, what it argues, and why this course sets it.
- [The Psychology of Belonging](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-tawhidlabib/readings/allen-2020/): A short synthesis of the whole field, including the parts about belonging online that the older literature could not have written.
- [Belonging: a review of conceptual issues, an integrative framework, and directions for future research](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-tawhidlabib/readings/allen-2021/): The tidy-up — four components of belonging, and an honest account of how badly the field has defined its own term.
- [The cosmopolitan canopy](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-tawhidlabib/readings/anderson-2004/): An ethnography of one market hall where people who avoid each other everywhere else behave well, and what the room is doing to make that happen.
- [The need to belong: desire for interpersonal attachments as a fundamental human motivation](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-tawhidlabib/readings/baumeister-leary-1995/): The case that belonging is a drive rather than a preference, assembled from evidence across the whole of psychology.
- [Attachment and Loss, Volume 1: Attachment](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-tawhidlabib/readings/bowlby-1982/): Where the need to belong comes from developmentally. Background for week 2, not required.
- [Perceived social isolation and cognition](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-tawhidlabib/readings/cacioppo-hawkley-2009/): The mechanism behind week 11's mortality figures — what loneliness does to attention, threat detection and sleep.
- [Mingling, observing, and lingering: everyday public spaces and their implications for well-being and social relations](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-tawhidlabib/readings/cattell-2008/): A study of ordinary public space in East London that takes seriously the people who are only there because they have to be.
- [The strength of weak ties](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-tawhidlabib/readings/granovetter-1973/): Why the people you barely know are the ones who change your life, and why third places manufacture exactly that kind of tie.
- [Social relationships and mortality risk: a meta-analytic review](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-tawhidlabib/readings/holt-lunstad-2010/): 148 studies, 308,000 people, and the effect size that turned loneliness into a public health problem.
- [The Great Good Place](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-tawhidlabib/readings/oldenburg-1989/): The book that named the third place and gave it eight characteristics. Every other reading on this list is either evidence for it or an argument with it.
- [Bowling Alone: the collapse and revival of American community](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-tawhidlabib/readings/putnam-2000/): The measurement of what was lost, decade by decade, and the argument about what caused it.
- [Where everybody knows your (screen) name: online games as third places](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-tawhidlabib/readings/steinkuehler-williams-2006/): The paper that took Oldenburg's eight rules and tested them against a massively multiplayer game.
- [An integrative theory of intergroup conflict](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-tawhidlabib/readings/tajfel-turner-1979/): Social identity theory — how a group becomes part of who you are, and why the minimal conditions for that are so shockingly minimal.
- [Ostracism](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-tawhidlabib/readings/williams-2007/): What exclusion does, measured in a lab with a ball game so trivial it should not work — and it works every time.
- [Audit a place you already use](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-tawhidlabib/sessions/round-01/): The first Round. You take somewhere you go anyway and hold it against the eight rules, in writing, on the premises.
- [First census — who is a regular?](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-tawhidlabib/sessions/round-02/): Return to your week 1 place and count. The question is whether "regular" is something you can observe or only something people claim.
- [Cyberball, run on each other](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-tawhidlabib/sessions/round-03/): You run the exclusion manipulation in the room, on people you know, and then argue about whether we should have.
- [The pub, the café](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-tawhidlabib/sessions/round-04/): A commercial third place, observed properly, with attention to what the counter is doing and what happens to a stranger who walks in.
- [The barbershop and the salon](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-tawhidlabib/sessions/round-05/): A Round in a place where you are the one being observed, and where being a customer is the only honest way in.
- [Map your own weak ties](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-tawhidlabib/sessions/round-06/): An inward Round. You draw your own network, find where each tie was made, and discover how many came from rooms you no longer enter.
- [The laundromat, the waiting room](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-tawhidlabib/sessions/round-07/): The strictest Round. An involuntary public place, observed without notes in the room, with a hard list of sites that are out of bounds.
- [Count what your suburb lost](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-tawhidlabib/sessions/round-08/): An archive Round. You pick one place, one span of years, and produce a number you are prepared to defend.
- [Fieldwork inside a game](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-tawhidlabib/sessions/round-09/): A Round held in a virtual room. You score a persistent online space against the eight rules and write up where the scoring sheet breaks.
- [A Discord, observed](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-tawhidlabib/sessions/round-10/): A Round in a room with no closing time and a total archive. Consent, lurking, and what you are allowed to quote.
- [Reading the mortality data](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-tawhidlabib/sessions/round-11/): A Round at a desk. You take the famous claim apart, find where each number came from, and write the version you would defend.
- [Present your proposal](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-tawhidlabib/sessions/round-12/): The last Round. Ten minutes for your place, and questions from people who have spent twelve weeks learning what to ask.