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HICSS
2007
IEEE
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14 years 1 months ago
An Online Community as a New Tribalism: The World of Warcraft
Massive, multiplayer online role-playing games foster rich social environments. Within the game, players can interact with other players, make friends, create and cultivate new on...
Thomas W. Brignall III, Thomas L. Van Valey
IV
2006
IEEE
109views Visualization» more  IV 2006»
14 years 1 months ago
Plot-polling: Collaborative Knowledge Visualization for Online Discussions
Online communities are extremely popular; yet most of them still rely primarily on text for knowledge creation and communication. This paper describes a graphical webpoll prototyp...
Alex Ivanov, Thomas Erickson, Dianne Cyr
CSCW
2002
ACM
13 years 7 months ago
Stimulating social engagement in a community network
One of the most challenging problems facing builders and facilitators of community networks is to create and sustain social engagement among members. In this paper, we investigate...
David R. Millen, John F. Patterson
CSCW
2008
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
Articulations of wikiwork: uncovering valued work in wikipedia through barnstars
Successful online communities have complex cooperative arrangements, articulations of work, and integration practices. They require technical infrastructure to support a broad div...
Travis Kriplean, Ivan Beschastnikh, David W. McDon...
ICWSM
2008
13 years 9 months ago
Space Planning for Online Community
Several years of consulting with online community hosts and managers have highlighted a variety of issues that recur across many online community development efforts. We summarize...
Danyel Fisher, Tammara Combs Turner, Marc A. Smith