It is increasingly common for online communities to rely on members rather than editors to contribute and moderate content. To motivate members to perform these tasks, some sites d...
F. Maxwell Harper, Sherry Xin Li, Yan Chen, Joseph...
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...
Motivation – This research aims at investigating emerging roles and forms of participation fostering design-use mediation during the Open Source Software design process Research...
Research on trolls is scarce, but their activities challenge online communities; one of the main challenges of the Wikipedia community is to fight against v...
"Open contribution systems" (OCS) are online applications that encourage users to contribute and share content in a "public" and open manner. While these syste...