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PERSUASIVE
2007
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
Social Comparisons to Motivate Contributions to an Online Community
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...
CSCW
2004
ACM
14 years 27 days 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...
ECCE
2007
13 years 9 months ago
Cross-participants: fostering design-use mediation in an open source software community
Motivation – This research aims at investigating emerging roles and forms of participation fostering design-use mediation during the Open Source Software design process Research...
Flore Barcellini, Françoise Détienne...
JIS
2010
91views more  JIS 2010»
13 years 2 months ago
Beyond vandalism: Wikipedia trolls
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...
Pnina Shachaf, Noriko Hara
GROUP
2009
ACM
13 years 5 months ago
Social performances: understanding the motivations for online participatory behavior
"Open contribution systems" (OCS) are online applications that encourage users to contribute and share content in a "public" and open manner. While these syste...
Jude Yew