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CSCW
2012
ACM
12 years 3 months ago
Socializing volunteers in an online community: a field experiment
Although many off-line organizations give their employees training, mentorship, a cohort and other socialization experiences that improve their retention and productivity, online ...
Rosta Farzan, Robert Kraut, Aditya Pal, Joseph A. ...
GROUP
2005
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
Becoming Wikipedian: transformation of participation in a collaborative online encyclopedia
Traditional activities change in surprising ways when computermediated communication becomes a component of the activity system. In this descriptive study, we leverage two perspec...
Susan L. Bryant, Andrea Forte, Amy Bruckman
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
CORR
2010
Springer
177views Education» more  CORR 2010»
13 years 7 months ago
Understanding Formulation of Social Capital in Online Social Network Sites (SNS)
Online communities are the gatherings of like-minded people, brought together in cyberspace by shared interests. The shared interest has hidden social capital aspects and can be o...
S. S. Phulari, S. D. Khamitkar, N. K. Deshmukh, P....
HICSS
2000
IEEE
134views Biometrics» more  HICSS 2000»
14 years 1 days ago
Peer-to-Peer Valuation as a Mechanism for Reinforcing Active Learning in Virtual Communities: Actualizing Social Exchange Theory
As knowledge becomes the primary focus of work in many industries, virtual communities and groups are emerging as part of new organizational forms. Within these virtual forms, eff...
Amrit Tiwana, Ashley A. Bush