The attention economy motivates participation in peerproduced sites on the Web like YouTube and Wikipedia. However, this economy appears to break down at work. We studied a large ...
Sarita Yardi, Scott A. Golder, Michael J. Brzozows...
Abstract. The vast majority of the interactions in typical online communities nowadays is between complete strangers. In such settings reputation reporting and trust management mod...
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...
This study investigated how different types of computer-mediated communication (CMC) such as asynchronous forums, synchronous forums and e-mail were used to support an alternative...
Brian Ferry, Julie Kiggins, Garry Hoban, Lori Lock...
"Witkeys" are websites in China that form a rapidly growing web-based knowledge market. A user who posts a task also offers a small fee, and many other users submit thei...