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PERSUASIVE
2007
Springer
14 years 2 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...
CANDT
2009
14 years 11 days ago
Facilitating participatory decision-making in local communities through map-based online discussion
Geographic information systems and online mapping technologies have been widely used for supporting participatory decision-making in local communities. However, limited studies ha...
Bo Yu, Guoray Cai
WWW
2007
ACM
14 years 9 months ago
Expertise networks in online communities: structure and algorithms
Web-based communities have become important places for people to seek and share expertise. We find that networks in these communities typically differ in their topology from other...
Jun Zhang, Mark S. Ackerman, Lada A. Adamic
CSCL
2008
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13 years 8 months ago
Leveraging online communities in fostering adaptive schools
ct There has long been a call for schools to prepare students for the twenty-first 12century where skills and dispositions differ significantly from much of what has historically 1...
David Hung, Kenneth Y. T. Lim, Der-Thanq Victor Ch...
GROUP
2009
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
Spreading the honey: a system for maintaining an online community
As online communities, such as social network sites, mature, they face challenges in sustaining user engagement. To address this, we designed and deployed a rating system to encou...
Rosta Farzan, Joan Morris DiMicco, Beth Brownholtz