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...
This paper examines how different facets of favorable user behavior drive the success of an online community by using a unique data set with surveys from 1,389 participants from t...
An ever-growing number of users participate in online communities such as Flickr, del.icio.us , and YouTube , making friends and sharing content. Users come to these sites to fin...
Sihem Amer-Yahia, Michael Benedikt, Philip Bohanno...
Online communities are connecting hordes of individuals and generating rich social network data. The social capital that resides within these networks is largely unknown. We propo...
Online citizen science projects engage volunteers in collecting, analyzing, and curating scientific data. Existing projects have demonstrated the value of using volunteers to coll...
Dana Rotman, Jenny Preece, Jen Hammock, Kezee Proc...