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CSE
2009
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
Ranking Comments on the Social Web
— 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...
Chiao-Fang Hsu, Elham Khabiri, James Caverlee
CHI
2004
ACM
14 years 10 months ago
Think different: increasing online community participation using uniqueness and group dissimilarity
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...
CSCW
2010
ACM
14 years 6 months ago
An empirical study of critical mass and online community survival
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...
Daphne R. Raban, Mihai Moldovan, Quentin Jones
HICSS
2008
IEEE
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14 years 4 months ago
Understanding the Roles of Knowledge Sharing and Trust in Online Learning Communities
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...
CHI
2006
ACM
14 years 10 months ago
"Alone together?": exploring the social dynamics of massively multiplayer online games
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...