We are investigating how to empower nonprofit community organizations to develop the information technology management practices required to carry out their civic goals. We highli...
Cecelia Merkel, Umer Farooq, Lu Xiao, Craig H. Gan...
We present an analysis of what we call the community event space, looking at how social events are planned and organized. Based on a series of interviews, field studies, and a foc...
As a more diverse population of users moves online, understanding how to help those groups work together and leverage their diverse skills poses a significant challenge for human-...
Open source communities have been of great interest for researchers recently, yet little can be agreed upon when it comes to developers motives. While it has been shown that partic...
As online communities, such as social network sites, mature, they face challenges in sustaining user engagement. To address this, we designed and deployed a rating system to encou...
Rosta Farzan, Joan Morris DiMicco, Beth Brownholtz