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CANDT
2009
14 years 1 months ago
wConnect: a facebook-based developmental learning community to support women in information technology
The under-representation of women in computer and information science (CIS) has created a crisis in availability of qualified CIS professionals and diversity of perspectives. Many...
Mary Beth Rosson, John M. Carroll, Dejin Zhao, Tim...
GROUP
2007
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
Community, consensus, coercion, control: cs*w or how policy mediates mass participation
When large groups cooperate, issues of conflict and control surface because of differences in perspective. Managing such diverse views is a persistent problem in cooperative group...
Travis Kriplean, Ivan Beschastnikh, David W. McDon...
ACMDIS
2008
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
"Narrowcast yourself": designing for community storytelling in a rural Indian context
The StoryBank project is examining technologies and practices to allow digitally impoverished communities to take part in the user-generated content revolution. The approach invol...
Matt Jones, Will Harwood, David Bainbridge, George...
CRIWG
2003
13 years 11 months ago
Building Virtual Communities for Information Retrieval
The search for relevant information is often hindered by the initial difficulty in formulating precise requests, and because much knowledge is actually tacit and thus not easily ac...
Daniel Memmi, Olivier Nérot
CHI
2009
ACM
14 years 10 months ago
Questions in, knowledge in?: a study of naver's question answering community
Large general-purposed community question-answering sites are becoming popular as a new venue for generating knowledge and helping users in their information needs. In this paper ...
Kevin Kyung Nam, Mark S. Ackerman, Lada A. Adamic