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ICWSM
2009
13 years 7 months ago
Motivational, Structural and Tenure Factors that Impact Online Community Photo Sharing
In recent years, we have witnessed a significant growth of "social computing" services, or online communities where users contribute content in various forms, including ...
Oded Nov, Mor Naaman, Chen Ye
CORR
2007
Springer
139views Education» more  CORR 2007»
13 years 9 months ago
Content Reuse and Interest Sharing in Tagging Communities
Tagging communities represent a subclass of a broader class of user-generated content-sharing online communities. In such communities users introduce and tag content for later use...
Elizeu Santos-Neto, Matei Ripeanu, Adriana Iamnitc...
IIE
2008
188views more  IIE 2008»
13 years 9 months ago
Exploring Individual and Collaborative Dimensions of Knowledge Building in an Online Learning Community of Practice
Abstract. An exploratory study of students' engagement in online learning and knowledge building is presented in this paper. Learning in an online community, composed of stude...
Lina Markauskaite, Louise M. Sutherland
ICONFERENCE
2011
13 years 4 months ago
Lifting the veil: the expression of values in online communities
Wikipedia’s stated mission is to provide a free encyclopedia that people all over the world can use and contribute to. However, while Wikipedia is successful at providing access...
Jonathan T. Morgan, Robert M. Mason, Karine Nahon
CHI
2010
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
Motivations to participate in online communities
A consistent theoretical and practical challenge in the design of socio-technical systems is that of motivating users to participate in and contribute to them. This study examines...
Cliff Lampe, Rick Wash, Alcides Velasquez, Elif Oz...