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CHI
2010
ACM
14 years 20 days ago
Motivations to participate in online communities
A consistent theoretical and practical challenge in the design of socio-technical systems is that of motivating users to participate in and contribute to them. This study examines...
Cliff Lampe, Rick Wash, Alcides Velasquez, Elif Oz...
IIE
2008
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13 years 6 months ago
Exploring Individual and Collaborative Dimensions of Knowledge Building in an Online Learning Community of Practice
Abstract. An exploratory study of students' engagement in online learning and knowledge building is presented in this paper. Learning in an online community, composed of stude...
Lina Markauskaite, Louise M. Sutherland
IJKL
2010
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13 years 2 months ago
Lurking: a challenge or a fruitful strategy? A comparison between lurkers and active participants in an online corporate communi
: For todays organisations to obtain competitive advantages, online corporate Communities of Practice (CoPs) are indispensable. However, often the majority of its participants does...
Mirjam Neelen, Sibren Fetter
CASCON
2007
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13 years 8 months ago
Identifying active subgroups in online communities
As online communities proliferate, methods are needed to explore and capture patterns of activity within them. This paper focuses on the problem of identifying active subgroups wi...
Alvin Chin, Mark H. Chignell
BIS
2008
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13 years 8 months ago
Community-Driven Ontology Evolution: Gene Ontology Case Study
Abstract. Communities on the Web capture, represent, and evolve their knowledge using ontologies, either explicitly or implicitly. The Gene Ontology project is a typical and advanc...
Anna V. Zhdanova