Social applications on the web let users track and follow the activities of a large number of others regardless of location or affiliation. There is a potential for this transpare...
Laura A. Dabbish, H. Colleen Stuart, Jason Tsay, J...
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...
Users of social networking services can connect with each other by forming communities for online interaction. Yet as the number of communities hosted by such websites grows over ...
Information Technology, IT, may play an important part in any community as a supporting tool in the democratic process. The conditions for that to happen are primarily a genuine w...
When users present themselves in a social networking community, they are called on to create profiles that are representative and portray a desired image. In this paper, we examin...