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SBP
2010
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
Workings of Collective Intelligence within Open Source Communities
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...
Everett Stiles, Xiaohui Cui
HICSS
2009
IEEE
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14 years 2 months ago
Users' Influence on the Success of Online Communities
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...
Jakob Assmann, Philipp Sandner, Sophie Ahrens
DEBU
2007
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13 years 7 months ago
Challenges in Searching Online Communities
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...
CIKM
2008
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Social capital in online communities
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...
Matthew S. Smith
CSCW
2012
ACM
12 years 3 months ago
Dynamic changes in motivation in collaborative citizen-science projects
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...