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HICSS
2008
IEEE
126views Biometrics» more  HICSS 2008»
14 years 4 months ago
An Empirical Investigation of Knowledge Creation in Electronic Networks of Practice: Social Capital and Theory of Planned Behavi
How to achieve knowledge creation effectively remains a problem, this becomes even more difficult in a loosely knitted community such as networks of practice. This is because know...
Shih-Wei Chou, Yu-Chieh Chang
SIGECOM
2010
ACM
135views ECommerce» more  SIGECOM 2010»
13 years 8 months ago
Cooperation in anonymous dynamic social networks
We study the emergence of cooperation in dynamic, anonymous social networks, such as in online communities. We examine prisoner’s dilemma played under a social matching protocol...
Nicole Immorlica, Brendan Lucier, Brian Rogers
HT
2011
ACM
13 years 1 months ago
Social capital increases efficiency of collaboration among Wikipedia editors
In this study we measure the impact of pre-existing social capital on the efficiency of collaboration among Wikipedia editors. To construct a social network among Wikipedians we l...
Keiichi Nemoto, Peter A. Gloor, Rob Laubacher
CHI
2008
ACM
14 years 10 months ago
The network in the garden: an empirical analysis of social media in rural life
History repeatedly demonstrates that rural communities have unique technological needs. Yet, we know little about how rural communities use modern technologies, so we lack knowled...
Eric Gilbert, Karrie Karahalios, Christian Sandvig
CSCL
2007
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13 years 9 months ago
Community-based learning: The core competency of residential, research-based universities
Traditionally, universities focus primarily on instructionist teaching. Such an understanding has been criticized from theoretical and practical points of view. We believe that so...
Gerhard Fischer, Markus Rohde, Volker Wulf