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2012
ACM
12 years 5 months ago
Organizing without formal organization: group identification, goal setting and social modeling in directing online production
A challenge for many online production communities is to direct their members to accomplish tasks that are important to the group, even when these tasks may not match individual m...
Haiyi Zhu, Robert Kraut, Aniket Kittur
HICSS
2007
IEEE
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14 years 4 months ago
Distributed Knowledge Construction in an Online Community of Inquiry
This paper examines sustained, socially-situated engagement in online learning communities. We propose three levels of engagement that are examined through an empirical study of j...
James Waters, Susan Gasson
HICSS
2006
IEEE
107views Biometrics» more  HICSS 2006»
14 years 3 months ago
Developing an Online Business Community: A Travel Industry Case Study
Many businesses are now using online communities to interact with their customers and to realise the many benefits such communities offer. However, there remains little understand...
Rosemary Stockdale, Michael C. A. Borovicka
GROUP
2009
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
Spreading the honey: a system for maintaining an online community
As online communities, such as social network sites, mature, they face challenges in sustaining user engagement. To address this, we designed and deployed a rating system to encou...
Rosta Farzan, Joan Morris DiMicco, Beth Brownholtz
NSDI
2008
14 years 4 days ago
Understanding Privacy Settings in Facebook with an Audience View
Users of online social networking communities are disclosing large amounts of personal information, putting themselves at a variety of risks. Our ongoing research investigates mec...
Heather Richter Lipford, Andrew Besmer, Jason Wats...