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HICSS
2005
IEEE
181views Biometrics» more  HICSS 2005»
14 years 1 months ago
Motivating Content Contributions to Online Communities: Toward a More Comprehensive Theory
This paper extends previous research by proposing a model that can help explain ways to motivate member contributions to online communities (OCs). New features in the model will a...
Steven J. J. Tedjamulia, Douglas L. Dean, David R....
SOCIALCOM
2010
13 years 5 months ago
On the Navigability of Social Tagging Systems
It is a widely held belief among designers of social tagging systems that tag clouds represent a useful tool for navigation. This is evident in, for example, the increasing number ...
Denis Helic, Christoph Trattner, Markus Strohmaier...
KDD
2009
ACM
173views Data Mining» more  KDD 2009»
14 years 8 months ago
Constant-factor approximation algorithms for identifying dynamic communities
We propose two approximation algorithms for identifying communities in dynamic social networks. Communities are intuitively characterized as "unusually densely knit" sub...
Chayant Tantipathananandh, Tanya Y. Berger-Wolf
CSCW
2012
ACM
12 years 3 months ago
Organizing without formal organization: group identification, goal setting and social modeling in directing online production
A challenge for many online production communities is to direct their members to accomplish tasks that are important to the group, even when these tasks may not match individual m...
Haiyi Zhu, Robert Kraut, Aniket Kittur
CE
2004
88views more  CE 2004»
13 years 7 months ago
Beyond formal learning: Informal community eLearning
The goal of the study described in this paper was to gain an improved understanding of the social context of UK online centres and issues around the creation and exchange of knowl...
John Cook, Matt Smith