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CRIWG
2006
14 years 11 days ago
Social Visualization Encouraging Participation in Online Communities
The paper describes a further development of the design of a motivational visualization encouraging participation in an online community. The new design overcomes shortcomings in p...
Lingling Sun, Julita Vassileva
UM
2007
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
Encouraging Contributions to Online Communities with Personalization and Incentives
Increasingly, online systems depend on user contributions such as posts, ratings, tags, and comments. Many of these systems wish to encourage broader participation or the contribut...
F. Maxwell Harper
WWW
2006
ACM
14 years 11 months ago
Invisible participants: how cultural capital relates to lurking behavior
The asymmetry of activity in virtual communities is of great interest. While participation in the activities of virtual communities is crucial for a community's survival and ...
Vladimir Soroka, Sheizaf Rafaeli
HICSS
1997
IEEE
118views Biometrics» more  HICSS 1997»
14 years 3 months ago
Social Interaction on the Net: Virtual Community as Participatory
The phrase "virtual community" is often used to describe long term, computer-mediated conversations amongst large groups. This paper suggests that such conversations may...
Thomas Erickson
HICSS
2002
IEEE
150views Biometrics» more  HICSS 2002»
14 years 3 months ago
Social Capital and Volunteerism in Virtual Communities: The Case of the Internet Chess Club
This paper considers the theory of social capital and volunteerism in an online gaming community, the Internet Chess Club (ICC). We discuss how increased social capital provides b...
Mark Ginsburg, Suzanne P. Weisband