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CSCW
2004
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
Using social psychology to motivate contributions to online communities
Under-contribution is a problem for many online communities. Social psychology theories of social loafing and goal-setting can provide mid-level design principles to address this ...
Gerard Beenen, Kimberly S. Ling, Xiaoqing Wang, Kl...
GI
2009
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
Deriving Taxonomies from Automatic Analysis of Group Membership Structure in Large Social Networks
: We develop a method to create taxonomies in large social networks solely based on users group membership information. We illustrate our technique using an example of the Flickr p...
Marc Egger, Kai Fischbach, Peter A. Gloor, Andre L...
CHI
2011
ACM
13 years 1 months ago
Social capital on facebook: differentiating uses and users
Though social network site use is often treated as a monolithic activity, in which all time is equally “social” and its impact the same for all users, we examine how Facebook ...
Moira Burke, Robert Kraut, Cameron Marlow
GECCO
2008
Springer
145views Optimization» more  GECCO 2008»
13 years 11 months ago
Towards incremental social learning in optimization and multiagent systems
Social learning is a mechanism that allows individuals to acquire knowledge from others without incurring the costs of acquiring it individually. Individuals that learn socially c...
Marco Antonio Montes de Oca, Thomas Stützle
HICSS
2006
IEEE
100views Biometrics» more  HICSS 2006»
14 years 3 months ago
The Impact of Social Types within Information Communities: Findings from Technical Newsgroups
We explored whether Fisher and Durrance’s [11] framework of information communities applies to online technical newsgroups and the impact of particular social types on informati...
Tammara Combs Turner, Karen E. Fisher