— We study how an online community perceives the relative quality of its own user-contributed content, which has important implications for the successful self-regulation and gro...
Online communities can help people form productive relationships. Unfortunately, this potential is not always fulfilled: many communities fail, and designers don't have a sol...
Pamela J. Ludford, Dan Cosley, Dan Frankowski, Lor...
There is general consensus that critical mass at inception ensures the sustained success of online communities. However, no clear understanding of what constitutes such a 'cr...
This paper builds upon action and design research aimed at enhancing scholarly community and conversation in a graduate school setting. In this paper we focus on knowledge sharing...
Brian Thoms, Nathan Garrett, Jesus Canelon Herrera...
Massively Multiplayer Online Games (MMOGs) routinely attract millions of players but little empirical data is available to assess their players' social experiences. In this p...
Nicolas Ducheneaut, Nicholas Yee, Eric Nickell, Ro...