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CSCW
2012
ACM
12 years 3 months ago
Coordination and beyond: social functions of groups in open content production
We report on a study of the English edition of Wikipedia in which we used a mixed methods approach to understand how nested organizational structures called WikiProjects support c...
Andrea Forte, Niki Kittur, Vanessa Larco, Haiyi Zh...
CHI
2008
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
The network in the garden: an empirical analysis of social media in rural life
History repeatedly demonstrates that rural communities have unique technological needs. Yet, we know little about how rural communities use modern technologies, so we lack knowled...
Eric Gilbert, Karrie Karahalios, Christian Sandvig
CHI
2005
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Sharing the big apple: a survey study of people, place and locatability
With the advancement in technologies to locate individuals, there has been an emergence of information systems that link People-to-People-to-Geographical-Places, labeled P3Systems...
Sukeshini A. Grandhi, Quentin Jones, Samer Karam
INFOCOM
2010
IEEE
13 years 6 months ago
P2P Trading in Social Networks: The Value of Staying Connected
—The success of future P2P applications ultimately depends on whether users will contribute their bandwidth, CPU and storage resources to a larger community. In this paper, we pr...
Zhengye Liu, Hao Hu, Yong Liu, Keith W. Ross, Yao ...
CHI
2006
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Talk to me: foundations for successful individual-group interactions in online communities
People come to online communities seeking information, encouragement, and conversation. When a community responds, participants benefit and become more committed. Yet interactions...
Jaime Arguello, Brian S. Butler, Elisabeth Joyce, ...